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TORONTO (AP) — Chris Kreider scored twice and Igor Shesterkin stopped 34 shots as the New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 on Saturday night. Alexis Lafreniere and Artemi Panarin also scored for the Rangers, and Mika Zibanejad and Reilly Smith each had two assists. New York improved to 4-0-1 on the season. […]

TORONTO — Igor Shesterkin made 34 saves as the New York Rangers downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 on Saturday. Chris Kreider, with two, Alexis Lafreniere and Artemi Panarin scored for New York (4-0-1). Mika Zibanejad and Reilly Smith each had a pair of assists. Auston Matthews replied for Toronto (3-2-0). Anthony Stolarz stopped 25 […]

TORONTO — Simple Plan is getting the documentary treatment. The Canadian pop-punk band will be the subject of a forthcoming documentary on Prime Video, which is slated to debut sometime next year. Lead singer Pierre Bouvier announced the partnership on stage at the When We Were Young music festival in Las Vegas on Saturday. The […]

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Drake Batherson had two goals and an assist, and the Ottawa Senators handed Tampa Bay its first loss of the season with a 5-4 victory over the Lightning on Saturday. Josh Norris, Brady Tkachuk and Noah Gregor also scored for Ottawa (3-2-0), and Anton Forsberg made 25 saves. Jake Sanderson collected […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors waived centre Brenden Carlson and guards Jahmi’us Ramsey and Jared Rhoden on Saturday. Forward Jamison Battle’s contract was also converted to a two-way deal, the NBA team said in a release. Toronto’s roster now stands at the league maximum 15 players and three two-way players. The Raptors, who were 3-2 […]

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say a woman has died and three other people are hurt after a shooting at a plaza in Brampton, Ont. A spokesperson for Peel regional police says six people were in a vehicle parked at the plaza when another vehicle pulled up around 6 a.m. today. Const. Richard Chin says shots […]

The union representing faculty at Ontario’s 24 public colleges says its members have delivered a strong strike mandate. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union’s says 79 per cent of those who participated in the vote supported a strike mandate, with 76 per cent of members casting a ballot. The union, which represents some 15,000 professors, […]

HAMILTON — Bo Levi Mitchell threw five touchdown passes to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats past the Calgary Stampeders 42-20 on Friday night. The win was Mitchell’s first against his former team. The 34-year-old Texan spent his first 10 CFL seasons with Calgary before joining the Ticats in 2023. Hamilton opened the season with a 32-24 […]

OTTAWA — Canada isn’t ruling out expelling additional diplomats from India, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly suggested Friday following bombshell allegations that Indian diplomats in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver were involved in state-sponsored violence targeting Canadian citizens. Canada expelled the Indian high commissioner and five other diplomats on Monday and when asked at a news […]

Ontario Big City Mayors are asking the province to review mental-health laws and whether to expand the scope of involuntary treatment for people who are addicted to drugs and live on the streets. The organization that represents 29 mayors of cities with more than 100,000 people say they are taking no position on treatment given […]