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TORONTO — Police say a 30-year-old Toronto woman is facing multiple murder charges in three deaths that took place within three days this week in Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Falls. Niagara Regional Police say Toronto police first responded to a call for service in the east end of the city on Tuesday and found a […]

HAMILTON — Shemar Bridges’ stellar CFL season has come to a premature end. Hamilton’s rookie receiver took to social media Friday to make the announcement. Bridges didn’t provide a reason why, but he didn’t practise all week due to a thigh injury and was placed on the one-game injured list, meaning he would miss the […]

OTTAWA — NDP House leader Peter Julian says there’s more his party wants to do in Parliament before the next election, but the current dysfunction continues it will become a factor in how they vote on a confidence measure. In just three weeks, two Conservative non-confidence motions have failed to bring down the government — […]

A northeastern Ontario jury has started deliberating in Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard’s sexual assault trial. Jurors heard the complainant’s emotional account of her encounter with Hoggard eight years ago in Kirkland Lake, Ont., and her allegations that he raped, choked, slapped and urinated on her. They heard Hoggard’s own dramatically different account of what he […]

HAILEYBURY, Ont. — Jurors have begun their deliberations in the sexual assault trial of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard. Hoggard, 40, has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault in an incident alleged to have taken place on June 25, 2016 in Kirkland Lake, Ont. Both the Crown and defence agree that a sexual encounter took place […]

TORONTO — A Canadian man who is trapped in Lebanon with his family says they are anxiously waiting for seats on a flight out of the country, as a barrage of Israeli airstrikes continues. Jalal Tabaja, a father of four Canadian children, says he has moved his family to a hotel in a quieter area […]

TORONTO — The police officer who was shot and seriously injured in Toronto’s midtown on Wednesday was released from hospital the next day, a spokeswoman for the Toronto Police Association confirmed Friday. The shooting in the Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood fuelled concerns about a recent spate of Toronto gun violence and recharged political debates about […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was up more than 100 points in late-morning trading, boosted by strength in the base metal and technology stocks, while U.S. stock markets also pushed higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 136.18 points at 24,104.68. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 17.13 points at […]

HAILEYBURY, Ont. — The judge overseeing the sexual assault trial of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard has begun delivering his final instructions to a northeastern Ontario jury today. Ontario Superior Court Justice Robin Tremblay is laying out the legal principles jurors must apply as they consider the evidence heard in the nearly two-week trial. Jurors are […]

A third man has been charged with murder in connection to a fatal stabbing in Toronto over the weekend. Police say officers responded to a call about a stabbing in the area of Finch Avenue East and Brimley Road on Saturday at around 6:45 p.m. They say a man was found with stabbing injuries and […]