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WINNIPEG — Lirim Hajrullahu booted a 36-yard field goal with 27 seconds remaining to lift the Toronto Argonauts to a 30-28 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday that extended their win streak to four games. Argos quarterback Chad Kelly upheld his reputation as a gunslinger when he threw touchdown passes of 56 yards […]

TORONTO — Kazuma Okamoto hit two doubles, driving in three runs, to power the Toronto Blue Jays past the Cincinnati Reds 6-5 on Friday. Alejandro Kirk and Okamoto each had an RBI double in the first inning for an early 2-0 Toronto (78-82) lead. Then Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Okamoto and Nathan Lukes drove in runs […]

TORONTO — Two Marineland whales that died weeks after being relocated to a Chicago facility had chronic, pre-existing diseases, Shedd Aquarium said Friday. The U.S. park, however, stopped short of saying that was the cause of death for Peekachu, a 23-year-old female beluga, and Rain, a 20-year-old female beluga. There is no evidence of any […]

TORONTO — Tenants at a west-end Toronto apartment building have ended their months-long rent strike after they say the landlord withdrew an attempt to retroactively increase rents by more than five per cent. Advocates are hailing it as a victory amid a surge of rent strikes across Toronto in recent years, with hundreds of tenants […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say two people who were found in burning vehicles overnight on opposite ends of the city earlier this week were targeted and killed before they were burned. Police say the first body was found in a burning vehicle in the city’s northeast corner around Rouge National Urban Park just before 11:30 […]

BRAMPTON — A man is facing charges after police allege he deceived a Brampton, Ont., woman through an online dating platform and stole her guns. Peel regional police say the woman reported the incident earlier this month, saying it happened after she’d met a man online and communicated with him over several weeks. They allege […]

TORONTO — Ontario public high school teachers are set to vote in November on whether they would be willing to strike, meaning all major education unions will now look to their members for strike mandates this fall. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation says its members will vote from Nov. 6 to 16. The other […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is not worried about a two-year delay in the opening of a massive Volkswagen electric vehicle battery plant in southwestern Ontario. Volkswagen subsidiary PowerCo Canada says the delay at the $7-billion factory in St. Thomas, Ont., is due partially to a downshift in market demand on electric […]

TORONTO — A report on junior men’s hockey in Ontario delivered by former NHL player and executive Brendan Shanahan makes 11 recommendations to improve it. Shanahan, a Hockey Hall of Famer and president of the Toronto Maple Leafs for 11 years until 2025, was asked by Hockey Canada in January to conduct a review of […]

ALLISTON — Ontario Provincial Police say a veteran officer is facing criminal charges in a child exploitation investigation in Alliston, Ont.. Police say they carried out a search at a home in the community about 100 kilometres northwest of Toronto in June and seized several electronic devices. They say that led to the arrest of […]