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Much of Ontario remains under special air quality statements or warnings today amid smoke from wildfires burning in other parts of Canada. Air quality warnings Environment Canada issued on Thursday for parts of northern Ontario remain in place today as wildfires scorch Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, with heavy smoke causing poor air quality and reduced […]

CALEDON — After Richard T. Lee’s first round of the RBC Canadian Open his wife was telling him how on the PGA Tour’s app a fireball appears beside a golfer’s name on the leaderboard. That small mental image was enough to fuel Lee on Friday, as he fired a 6-under 64 in the tournament’s second […]

VANCOUVER — Jenn Gardiner is still in shock. The former Montreal Victoire forward can’t quite fathom that she’ll soon be playing professional hockey in the city where she grew up. “I really can’t wrap my hand around the fact that there’s actually a team at home and I get to be on it,” Gardiner said […]

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 […]