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TORONTO — Ontario says it will suspend driver’s licences for at least 10 years for those who have been convicted of stealing a car.  Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria says those thrice-convicted of auto theft would have their licenses suspended for life. Sarkaria says the province is also implementing stiffer penalties including a one-year license suspension […]

TORONTO — Owen Riegling wants to savour this fleeting small-town Canadian moment. Not every day is a rising country music star afforded the chance to rewind their career just as it’s picking up speed. But in a way, that’s exactly what the 25-year-old from Mildmay, Ont., is doing this month. As his nostalgic feel-good single […]

TORONTO — Hydro One Ltd. reported its first-quarter profit rose compared with a year earlier, helped by higher revenue. The power utility says it earned net income attributable to common shareholders of $293 million or 49 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31. The result compared with a profit of $282 million […]

TORONTO (AP) — TORONTO (AP) — OrganiGram Holdings Inc. (OGI) on Tuesday reported a loss of $20.1 million in its fiscal second quarter. On a per-share basis, the Toronto-based company said it had a loss of 22 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 12 cents per share. The results fell short of Wall […]

TORONTO — Hudbay Minerals Inc. reported a first-quarter profit of US$18.5 million, up from US$5.5 million a year ago, as its revenue rose nearly 80 per cent. The Toronto-based mining company, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says its profit amounted to five cents US per share for the quarter ended March 31, up […]

TORONTO — When Wilfred Buck looks up at the sky, he sees Indigenous history and even his own story reflected back at him, as though it were all written in the stars. Buck, the eponymous Cree elder at the centre of Lisa Jackson’s new documentary, is known as “the star guy.” He’s an astronomy expert […]

TORONTO — You would be forgiven for thinking Christina Lauren’s latest romance novel stars a hunky reimagining of Loblaw chairman Galen G. Weston.  The hero of “The Paradise Problem” is, after all, described as an heir to Weston Foods, the “heartless corporation his family built from the ground up.” But Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, […]

The sexual assault case of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team is due back in a London, Ont., court today. Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and Alex Formenton were charged with sexual assault earlier this year in connection with an alleged sexual assault at a London hotel in 2018. […]

OSHAWA, Ont. — Henry Brzustewicz scored two minutes into the second overtime period to lift the visiting London Knights to a 7-6 come-from-behind win over the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League Championship Final on Monday night. The Knights grabbed a commanding 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series, but they had to work for […]

TORONTO — U.S. author V. V. Ganeshananthan has won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000. Her book “Brotherless Night,” published by Random House, was described by jurors as an ambitious and beautifully written novel about a young doctor caught in Sri Lanka’s civil war. Ganeshananthan was named the winner at a Toronto gala […]