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As people around the world welcomed a new millennium, Torontonians in the year 2000 were welcoming something even bigger – a herd of hundreds of life-size moose statues. Twenty-five years ago, Toronto launched its Moose in the City campaign, a project featuring 326 colourful moose statues decorated by artists and placed all over the city […]

Growing up as a Korean immigrant in 1990s Toronto, Maggie Kang kept her love of K-pop to herself. “I remember hiding my K-pop albums from my white friends because they thought it was weird and silly,” recalls Kang, who moved from Seoul to Canada at age five and was raised in the North York area. […]

MONTREAL — Eugenie Bouchard’s retirement will have to wait. The former world No. 5 — and first Canadian woman to contest a Grand Slam final in the open era — upset Colombia’s Emiliana Arango 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 in the first round Monday night at the National Bank Open, extending her tennis career for at least […]

EDMONTON — Edmonton police warned a crowded town hall on Monday night that extortions and arsons similar to ones that targeted members of the South Asian community across the city and elsewhere in Canada about a year ago have seen a resurgence in recent months. Interim Chief of police Warren Driechel said the attacks in […]

MONTREAL — Canada’s Kayla Cross and Ariana Arseneault are out of the National Bank Open after the first round. Cross let a one-set lead slip away in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 loss to Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia on Monday afternoon. The 20-year-old from London, Ont., who’s ranked 151st in the world, fell to the 62nd-ranked […]

Police say 11 people face charges after an investigation into drug trafficking in Mississauga, Ont., that allegedly involved exchanging stolen baby formula and other products for drugs. Peel Regional Police say the four-month investigation, dubbed Project Bengal, revealed an organized crime group responsible for trafficking of drugs and thefts from retail businesses in the city’s […]

HAMILTON — Hamilton police are looking to identify a suspect and a woman believed to be a witness in a shooting that left a 25-year-old man dead in the community of Dundas. Investigators say they were called shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday to the area of 77 Governors Rd., where they found a man unresponsive. […]

The Toronto Blue Jays are the best team in baseball with a 63-43 record heading into Monday night’s game in Baltimore against the Orioles. According to BaseballReference.com, that gives Toronto a 97.3 per cent chance of making the post-season and an 8.6 per cent shot at winning the World Series. Major League Baseball’s trade deadline […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has walked back last week’s pledge to issue work permits to asylum seekers. Ford and the rest of the country’s premiers said at their gathering last week they wanted more control over immigration, usually a purview of the federal government. The Ontario premier vowed to issue work permits to […]

A heat warning for much of southern Ontario continues today, with a humidex that will make it feel as high as 43 C in some regions. Environment Canada says the multi-day heat event that began Sunday will have daytime temperatures ranging between 30 to 33 C. The weather agency says nighttime low temperatures will be […]