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TORONTO — Canada Border Services Agency says a drug smuggling investigation has led to the arrests of two suspects who allegedly used online advertisements to recruit women to smuggle cannabis out of Toronto Pearson International Airport. It says the nine-month investigation, carried out jointly with the RCMP, began after two Canadian women were detained in […]

Police in Niagara Region say a man who was arrested and injured by gunfire after he allegedly shot an officer on Friday remains in hospital and will likely face further charges, as the province’s police watchdog continues to investigate the incident. Niagara regional police had issued a shelter-in-place order in the area of Plymouth Road […]

TORONTO — Changes to how new teachers in Ontario are certified are set to be announced next year and will entail a larger practical component, the education minister is signalling. In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, Education Minister Paul Calandra said he is looking at shortening the length of teachers’ college and has […]

Carter George was unable, at least initially, to fully process what had unfolded. The Canadian goaltender did his part at last year’s world junior hockey championship in Ottawa — a tournament on home soil that looked poised to be a career highlight. It instead turned into a nation’s capital nightmare. Canada crashed out at the […]

Police in York Region say eight people have been arrested and face more than 30 charges in a drug trafficking investigation at the U.S. border and across the province. Police say their investigation began last December in partnership with provincial police and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration after they identified a suspect who was […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog agency says it is investigating the circumstances of a 58-year-old woman’s death in Toronto after it says she fell from a hotel balcony. The Special Investigations Unit says in a news release that Toronto Police Service officers responded Sunday afternoon to a hotel in the area of Colborne Street and […]

The Shaw Festival is hopping across the pond — just not the one you might be thinking of. The theatre festival based in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., will take up a three-year artistic residency at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre next year, marking Shaw’s first entry into the busy theatre scene on the other side of Lake Ontario. The […]

OPASATIKA — Provincial police in northeastern Ontario are investigating a crash that killed three people. OPP say officers were called to a two-vehicle collision involving a tractor trailer and pickup truck just after midnight on Sunday in Opasatika Township. Police say three passengers in the pickup truck — aged 41, 15 and 12 — were […]

MONTREAL — The Quebec independent investigation bureau has launched an investigation following an intervention in Inukjuak involving the Nunavik Police Service. Information provided to the bureau suggests two people were severely injured. The independent bureau reports gun shots were exchanged, but that it is too early to know the cause of the injuries. The intervention […]

Ben Danford has a tutor with championship pedigree. He’s looking to add some hardware of his own in a few weeks. The Toronto Maple Leafs defence prospect is set to help patrol Canada’s blue line at the world junior hockey championship as a dependable, no-nonsense option for a country looking to rebound off a pair […]