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After enduring what he calls “the worst shoot of my life” in the 1990s, Guillermo del Toro says Toronto restored his faith in filmmaking — a bond that led him to bring his decades-in-the-making “Frankenstein” to the city. The Oscar-winning director premiered his take on Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic classic in North America on Monday […]

Expectations were always going to be high for a new closing chapter in the 30th-anniversary edition of Ken Dryden’s seminal book “The Game.” Like he did throughout his Hall of Fame hockey career, Dryden delivered once again. “Ken was a great writer and a great storyteller, so I knew that it was going to be […]

TORONTO — Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has partnered with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills to help grow football in Canada. A joint statement released Tuesday by MLSE and the Bills said the aim of the partnership to build connections with Canadian football fans via MLSE’s sports teams. It will include youth camps with the Argos, […]

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre is encouraging Prime Minister Mark Carney to adopt Conservative plans to deal with the country’s housing crisis, which he said is entering a new phase as prices begin to fall in some cities. At a press conference Tuesday in Brampton, Ont., the Conservative leader blamed Liberal policies for the housing crunch […]

OSHAWA — GM Canada says its previously announced plan to cut a shift at its Oshawa Assembly Plant won’t take effect until early 2026. The company provided new clarity on its timeline for the move after the union representing plant workers had initially said the shift cut was expected this fall. GM Canada spokeswoman Jennifer […]

An aviation expert and former pilot says it will be a challenge to repair the WestJet plane that landed roughly in St. Maarten on the weekend and shut down the Caribbean island’s airport for a day. Keith Mackey says the next step is to move the plane to a safe facility and assess whether or […]

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says growth in overall housing starts was flat during the first half of the year compared with 2024, though there were significant regional differences. The agency says cities like Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa and Halifax built homes at paces that were either at or near records or in line with […]

Hamilton police say they have charged a second man with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an international student from India, the third arrest in the case. Harsimrat Randhawa, a 21-year-old student at Mohawk College, was shot dead while she stood near a bus stop in the area of Upper James Street and South […]

TORONTO — Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment has partnered with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills to help grow football in Canada. A joint statement released Tuesday by MLSE and the Bills said the aim of the partnership to build connections with Canadian football fans via MLSE’s sports teams. It will include youth camps with the Argos, […]

In what’s shaping up to be the world’s biggest mining deal of the past decade, Teck Resources Ltd. has agreed to a tie-up with London-headquartered Anglo American PLC to create a copper-focused giant worth about $70 billion. The companies have proposed the deal as a “merger of equals,” even though Anglo American is worth more […]