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TORONTO — To the sound of car horns and chants, thousands of Blue Jays fans poured into the streets of Toronto on Monday night celebrating the team’s first World Series berth in more than 30 years. In a nail-biter Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, Toronto defeated the Seattle Mariners 4-3, sending the […]

TORONTO — George Springer hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday. The victory gave the Blue Jays their first berth in the World Series since 1993. Toronto will […]

NORTH VANCOUVER — After more than a decade of playing hockey around the globe, Hannah Miller is back home. Miller signed with the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s new Vancouver expansion team as a free agent in June in a move that has since spurred a number of “full-circle moments.” The latest came last week when […]

TORONTO — Ontario will soon ban speed cameras across the province as part of a red tape reduction bill tabled by Premier Doug Ford’s government Monday, the first day legislators sat at Queen’s Park since early June. Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said speed cameras are not the best way to prevent speeding and the premier […]

OSHAWA — Durham Region police say the son of an 80-year-old man who was found dead outside an Oshawa, Ont., mosque has been charged with second-degree murder. Police say the 42-year-old suspect was arrested without incident on Monday and held for a bail hearing. Police have said that 80-year-old Ibrahim Bala was found with “obvious […]

TORONTO — Education Minister Paul Calandra tabled a bill Monday with the sole purpose of firing one school board trustee. It is related to a $45,000 trip that four trustees from the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board took last year to Italy, where they bought $100,000 worth of art for the board. Calandra […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say a third person is under arrest in connection with the August shooting death of an eight-year-old boy in the city’s north end. JahVai Roy was in bed when he was struck by a stray bullet as gunfire erupted outside his North York apartment building on Aug. 16. Police say the […]

TORONTO — It’s do or die for the Toronto Blue Jays tonight as they try to clinch a spot in the World Series, and with a home game advantage fans are heading to Rogers Centre in hopes of witnessing history. Johnny Prokos, whose father has run a hotdog stand on the east side of Rogers […]

TORONTO — Ontario Labour Minister David Piccini was in the hot seat today as politicians are back at Queen’s Park for the first time in months. Opposition parties focused most of their questions on findings from a recent Ontario auditor general report on the Skills Development Fund, which she said was not “fair, transparent or […]

EDINBURGH — Three men accused of being involved in the death of a restaurant owner in Owen Sound, Ont., have consented to be extradited from Scotland to face trial in Canada. The men, who are from the same family, are facing charges in the death of 44-year-old Sharif Rahman, who was assaulted outside his restaurant […]