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Devynn Cromwell’s speed and athleticism will be on full display for the next week. The six-foot 200-pound defensive back was scheduled to participate in Michigan State’s pro day Thursday and will head to Edmonton for the CFL’s national combine March 27-29. It’s a condensed schedule but the Toronto native is embracing the opportunity to audition […]

HAMILTON — Hamilton is set to get another American Hockey League team. The New York Islanders announced Thursday they plan to relocate their AHL affiliate from Bridgeport, Conn., to Hamilton’s TD Coliseum for the 2026-27 season. The move requires approval from the league’s board of governors. The team would play at the newly renovated 18,000-seat […]

TORONTO — Toronto fire chief Jim Jessop says a construction firm and two property companies are facing charges after a fire that lasted nearly three weeks at two highrise buildings and displaced more than 200 residents late last year. The fire, which was burning the combustible particle board placed in an expansion joint between 11 […]

TORONTO — Lawyers for Umar Zameer are calling for a public inquiry into the actions of three Toronto police officers involved in his case — and the Ontario Provincial Police investigation that cleared those officers of wrongdoing. Defence lawyer Nader Hasan says an inquiry is necessary to restore public faith in the process after the […]

The size of a Sarnia, Ont., pipeline leak remained unclear days after it was first reported, a nearby First Nation said as it issued a call for transparency. Aamjiwnaang First Nation demanded answers about a March 11 spill it said took place along the southern fence line of Suncor’s Sarnia refinery last week, adjacent to […]

TORONTO — Personal grief, a potentially haunted house and a sound-driven sense of dread helped turn “Undertone” into one of the year’s most unexpected horror hits. But the biggest twist? The director says he made the film with no government money after his previous work was rejected by Canada’s public film funders. The Toronto-shot film […]

TORONTO — An Ontario court has extended the reprieve Hudson’s Bay has from creditors. Judge Jessica Kimmel has pushed the end of the collapsed retailer’s stay to June 30. Before the extension, it was due to expire on March 31. A stay is a common part of creditor protection hearings. It prevents people from filing […]

TORONTO — Ontario is planning to create a provincewide electronic medical record system for primary care, more than two decades after the government first embarked on what became a scandal-plagued eHealth project. Health Minister Sylvia Jones is announcing today that the province is starting a new process, conducting a market sounding exercise to better understand […]

Ontario’s police watchdog says a man in Windsor is dead after police shot him following an alleged armed robbery Wednesday night. The Special Investigations Unit says initial reports allege the 40-year-old man was armed with a knife and had robbed a convenience store on Sandwich Street. The SIU says police later found the man in […]

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … Critics urge Ottawa to help Inuit resist Chinese surveillance, economic dependence The Carney government is leaving Inuit communities at risk of Chinese surveillance and economic dependence and isn’t facing up to the threat China poses to the […]