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A demonstration by more than a dozen members of the union representing Air Canada’s flight attendants prompted the airline to shut down a press conference on Thursday as tensions between the two sides continue to mount ahead of a weekend work stoppage. Dozens of flights were expected to be cancelled by the end of Thursday […]

The Ontario government says it’s requiring its public servants to return to the office full time, with employees going in-person five days a week by January 2026. Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney says the province has been monitoring in-workplace standards across the public and private sectors, and the decision “represents the current workforce landscape.” She […]

TORONTO — Cohere says it’s raised US$500 million, giving the Canadian artificial intelligence firm a US$6.8 billion valuation. The funding round was led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, with additional cash from AMD Ventures, Nvidia, PSP Investments, Salesforce Ventures and the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan. Cohere says the money will accelerate the Toronto-based […]

TORONTO — While just turned 23, midfielder Malik Henry has paid his dues with Toronto FC. Attending the Toronto academy as a teenager, Henry used to carpool daily with winger Theo Corbeanu from their homes in Hamilton. “It was definitely a long drive sometimes, but there were a lot of good memories from those times,” […]

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the sentencing appeal of a man who opened fire in Toronto’s Eaton Centre mall in 2012, killing two people and leaving several others injured. Christopher Husbands was found guilty in 2019 of two counts of manslaughter in the deaths of Ahmed Hassan and Nixon Nirmalendran. […]

Janelle Powell and her husband went to their local library branch for an electric saw and grabbed a pasta maker while they were at it. The Markham, Ont., couple were contemplating buying the power tool for a one-off home reno project, but didn’t think they would use it again. So to the library they went. […]

HAMILTON — Hamilton police say they have charged a man for a deadly crash that killed a 10-year-old girl and her mother last month. Police say they responded to a multi-vehicle crash in the area of Trinity Church Road and Guyatt Road on the evening of July 6. They say a vehicle travelling southbound on […]

TORONTO — Wandering through Simons’s newest store a day before it opened on Thursday, Bernard Leblanc had a quiet confidence despite the busyness surrounding him. Across almost every inch of the flagship store at Yorkdale mall in Toronto, staff were scurrying to unwrap and steam the last of the location’s merchandise, vacuum carpets and dress […]

TORONTO — A year ago, Mac Bauer and his wife, Jungmin Chang, boarded a streetcar in Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood to visit a friend in High Park. The journey from east to west took more than an hour and felt sluggish to the two runners. “We looked at each other and went, ‘We can run faster […]

TORONTO — Two delightfully shaggy new faces will be on display at the Toronto Zoo starting on Friday. The nine-month-old brothers are Scottish Highland cattle, with long, woolly, reddish coats and fringe over their eyes. The zoo’s manager of wildlife care, Marc Brandson, says the two were born and raised at a local Ontario farm […]