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COLLINGWOOD — Ontario’s police watchdog says it is investigating after an officer shot and injured 50-year-old man in Collingwood. The Special Investigations Unit says the shooting happened Wednesday afternoon near a residence on Rhonda Road. The SIU says the man was taken to hospital, where he remained as of Wednesday night. Ontario Provincial Police say […]

TORONTO — Thirteen months before the FIFA World Cup kicks off, the City of Toronto is still wondering how to pay for it. The cost of hosting six games in Toronto has been pegged at $380 million, with the federal government contributing $104 million and Ontario, including services, $97 million. Toronto’s tab is $178.7 million […]

TORONTO — Daulton Varsho’s grand slam highlighted a seven-run eighth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays routed the San Diego Padres 14-0 on Wednesday. Nathan Lukes’s two-run homer gave Toronto (24-24) an early lead in the fifth before the Blue Jays racked up 12 runs in the seventh and eighth. Bo Bichette drove in a […]

There’s no telling what Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s NBA MVP Award will do for basketball in Canada. Gilgeous-Alexander was named the league’s most valuable player on Wednesday, after the Oklahoma City Thunder guard led the league with 32.7 points, 7.9 free throws and 21.8 field-goal attempts per game. He also averaged 6.4 assists, five rebounds and 1.7 […]

BRACEBRIDGE — Two people have been arrested in the death of a child in Ontario more than two years ago. Ontario Provincial Police say officers responded to a call in the town of Gravenhurst on Jan. 5, 2023, about a child who had suffered “significant injuries.” They say the child died in hospital two days […]

TORONTO — An environmental group says mining claims over the last three years in the Ring of Fire region are up 66 per cent, representing an area 14 times the size of Toronto. Wildlands League conservation director Anna Baggio says there are more than 43,000 claims in the area about 450 kilometres north of Thunder […]

TORONTO — Toronto is experiencing a stretch of unusually low temperatures that haven’t been seen in late May in decades. Environment Canada is forecasting a daytime high of 10 C on Thursday, which is close to 9.4 C recorded on May 22, 1967. Meteorologist Geoff Coulson says the daytime high forecast for Thursday is the […]

TORONTO — A major piece of Toronto’s climate plan appears to be in the Ontario government’s crosshairs, critics warn, as the province advances a bill that could strip municipalities of their power to set green building standards. More than a dozen Ontario municipalities have followed Toronto’s lead by pushing developers to design more energy efficient […]

TORONTO — George Wendt endeared himself to TV audiences as the beer-loving Norm Peterson on the 1980s sitcom “Cheers,” but in real life, it was his “humble, quiet guy” persona that seemed to connect with locals on his visits to Canada. After his celebrated run on the TV smash, the late Chicago-born actor racked up […]

A southwestern Ontario member of Premier Doug Ford’s caucus is speaking out against his government’s decision to cancel an environmental assessment for a landfill expansion in his riding. Steve Pinsonneault, who was elected last year in a byelection in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, posted a video to Facebook saying he is angry and frustrated. He says that during […]