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VANCOUVER — Growing up in Chatham, Ont., Bridget Carleton couldn’t imagine playing professional basketball in Canada. This season, she’s getting the chance. “It’s surreal,” the Portland Fire forward said before her team took on the Toronto Tempo in Vancouver on Friday. “I would never have imagined this when I was a kid growing up in […]

NIAGARA FALLS — The largest collective move of captive whales is getting closer to completion, with a fourth cohort leaving Marineland on Friday night. The park says a team of specialists lifted three belugas – males named Cyprus, Jasper and Xavier – into tanks earlier in the evening, to be loaded onto a plane bound […]

TORONTO — Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen says his experiences in space left him forever changed and he wants to spend his time post-retirement from the Canadian Space Agency pushing the domestic space sector forward. Hansen, who became the first Canadian to venture to the moon and the first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit […]

TORONTO — Ontarians now have a clearer picture of the choices they’ll face at the ballot box this fall. Would-be candidates had until 2 p.m. to register for the Oct. 26 vote, though some early birds — including mayoral hopefuls in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont. — began making their pitches in earnest long before today’s […]

TORONTO — Dylan Cease has been painting the corners of strike zones all season. But the Toronto Blue Jays ace enjoys working on canvases just as much. The Art Gallery of Ontario will be showing his artwork “Eve of Toronto (2026)” in Walker Court, the gallery’s central atrium, starting Tuesday. A limited-edition collection featuring the […]

MONTRÉAL — A Parti Québécois government would abolish public health agency Santé Québec to invest more in direct care for the public. Party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon called the agency a bureaucratic monster in a press conference. His party wants to use the savings to strengthen primary care and access to care through local community […]

TORONTO — Canadian Tre Ford will be Hamilton’s starting quarterback when the Tiger-Cats visit the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday. Ford, of Niagara Falls, was listed as Hamilton’s starter on its depth chart released Friday. Ford came off the bench to replace injured starter Harrison Frost and rally Hamilton to a 26-19 home win over the […]

NEW YORK — Relief pitcher Mason Fluharty is getting the start for Toronto as the Blue Jays open a three-game series in New York against the Yankees. Toronto’s relievers are well rested for the bullpen day, with only Spencer Miles and Louis Varland pitching in the Blue Jays’ 5-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays […]

ST. JOHN’S — The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it wants to make sure Labradorians benefit from the province’s proposed multibillion-dollar energy deal with Quebec. The province has appointed three members of the provincial legislature to serve on a new team with a mandate to ensure the peninsula can capitalize on the deal. The two […]

PORT HOPE — When the Ontario government announced plans earlier this year to build what could become one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants in a picturesque community of roughly 18,000 people, the news came wrapped in a series of celebratory speeches. The province’s energy minister, Stephen Lecce, hailed the project as “another positive […]