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TORONTO — The safety of an Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker weighed heavily at a Hot Docs event on Tuesday, as the festival revealed a lineup it says aims to amplify marginalized voices. Hamdan Ballal, a co-director of “No Other Land,” was detained Monday in the West Bank by the Israeli military following what he described as […]

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk has finalized a $58 million, five-year contract covering 2026-30. Kirk agreed in January to a $4.6 million, one-year contract and would have been eligible for arbitration again next winter and for free agency after the 2026 World Series. His new deal includes a $6 million signing […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have signed catcher Alejandro Kirk to a US$58-million, five-year extension, the team announced Tuesday. The 26-year-old from Tijuana, Mexico, hit .253 last season with five home runs and 54 runs batted in. Twenty-eight of his RBIs came over the last two months of the season. Defensively, threw out a […]

Police say they are investigating after a man was found dead in a tailor shop in Oakville, Ont., over the weekend. Halton Regional Police say officers responded on Saturday to Montagio Custom Tailoring near Lakeshore Road East and Navy Street. They say they found a dead man in the building, and confirmed Tuesday the case […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index rose Tuesday, helped by gains in base metal stocks, while U.S. markets were also higher. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 35.40 points at 25,339.51. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 4.18 points at 42,587.50. The S&P 500 index was up 9.08 points at 5,776.65, […]

TORONTO — Lawyers for the province say Ontario’s new law on supervised consumption sites does not ban them entirely and those deemed too close to schools and daycares are free to relocate farther away. That’s contrary to numerous public comments from Health Minister Sylvia Jones, who has said no supervised consumption sites will open after […]

OTTAWA — Beijing’s ambassador to Canada says China is interested in stepping up trade with Ottawa as the U.S. continues to pursue a global trade war. Wang Di says Washington should not force Canada to choose between the U.S. and China because that would further destabilize the global economy. At a trade promotion event today […]

TORONTO — Kevan Staples, co-founder of the groundbreaking avant-garde Toronto rock band Rough Trade, has died. His bandmate Carole Pope and two friends confirmed Staples died on Sunday. His age and cause of death were not immediately available. Staples co-wrote Rough Trade’s songs, including their sexually charged 1980 breakout “High School Confidential,” which appeared on […]

TORONTO — Small and medium business leaders say they could have to make minor adjustments to their operations in the short term to cope with widespread U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods. The poll of 50 small and medium enterprise leaders across Canada, conducted by the trade services arm of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, […]

TORONTO — When Osama Al-Hadad arrived from Yemen and applied for asylum at Toronto’s Pearson airport, he was taken into custody because he lacked documentation to prove his identity. He spent over a month in Canada Border Services Agency’s immigration holding centre near the airport and was released on Feb. 19 after his identity was […]