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WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew promoted his province Friday as the route for a future trade corridor, which could include a pipeline, in order to get goods from Western Canada to overseas markets. “The politics are (that) something needs to get built in Western Canada. I think everybody understands that,” Kinew told a breakfast […]

HAMILTON — Bo Levi Mitchell is poised to join a very select group. The veteran quarterback chases his 100th career CFL regular-season win Saturday when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats visit the Calgary Stampeders in the season opener for both teams. And the Katy, Tex., native can achieve the milestone faster than any other player in league […]

Hamilton Tiger-Cats general manager Ted Goveia says he has been diagnosed with “a serious form of cancer that’s spread.” In a story posted on the club’s website Friday, Goveia, 55, said the diagnosis was made in April. Although there was no specific mention as to the form of the disease, two league sources said Goveia […]

Ontario’s police watchdog says two Hamilton officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man in an apartment building last year used reasonable force in the face of what they believed was an imminent threat of serious harm or death. The director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, says he has determined there are […]

OTTAWA — Job growth has been virtually non-existent in the country since the start of the year, Statistics Canada said Friday. Canada’s jobless rate rose a tenth of a point to seven per cent in May amid a gain of 8,800 jobs in the month, the agency said in its latest labour force survey. That’s […]

TORONTO — Glancing across the Rogers Centre field to see his name on the stadium’s Level of Excellence still leaves former Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista with a “surreal” feeling. “It’s a good reminder of the time that I spent here, 10 years, it’s a long time,” Bautista said. “A full decade and a lot […]

TORONTO — The head of an association for the Myanmar community in Ontario says a new travel ban announced by U.S. President Donald Trump is “cruel” to the people of his country. Napas Thein, president of the Burma Canadian Association of Ontario, says the people of Myanmar are already facing difficulties in their own country […]

NIAGARA FALLS — Some Manitoba residents who have taken refuge in Niagara Falls, Ont., after fleeing wildfires raging in their province say they’re grateful for the hospitality but worry they won’t have a home to return to once the flames die down. Kelly Ouskun says he saw so much fire and smoke along the highway […]

TORONTO — The Canadian Ophthalmological Society is urging people to take care of their eyes as wildfires burn across Manitoba and Saskatchewan. People on the frontlines of the fires may get airborne particles in their eyes that need to be flushed out with sterile solution, said Dr. David Plemel, an eye surgeon in London, Ont., […]

CALEDON — You wouldn’t know that Hunter Thomson was playing his first professional round of golf. It certainly didn’t feel any different to him. The 21-year-old from Calgary fired a 3-under 67 on Thursday at the RBC Canadian Open. A standout collegiate player for the University of Michigan, Thomson officially turned pro as soon as […]