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TORONTO — The City of Toronto has cleared a homeless encampment at Dufferin Grove Park after a small group of remaining residents said they wouldn’t leave until they got permanent housing. City vehicles were seen removing tents and people’s belongings from the park this morning, with city security and police officers on scene. The encampment […]

Erica Howe paid it forward in hockey. She wants to do the same in her cancer journey. The goaltender who has represented Canada internationally was among the foot soldiers in the movement for a viable, sustainable professional women’s hockey league. Howe joined the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association after the Canadian Women’s Hockey League folded […]

Tammy Daigle has spent more than half of her life in the rural, northern Ontario community of Fauquier-Strickland, focusing on her family and rarely thinking about the small town’s finances. But that changed in July when the township announced it was in a financial crisis with a $2.5-million operating deficit, sending shock waves through the […]

TORONTO — Daulton Varsho was just trying to make contact — “short and sweet to the ball” he later said — but he ended up having the biggest hit of the Toronto Blue Jays’ season. Varsho launched a grand slam in the sixth inning to lift the Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox 6-1 […]

TORONTO — Baseball fans in Canada should not expect a repeat of a deal that allowed Sportsnet to air a simulcast of Apple TV’s Friday Night Baseball broadcast that featured the Toronto Blue Jays last week. As a result of the agreement, the streamer was given the rights for Friday’s game between the Blue Jays […]

TORONTO — Daulton Varsho’s grand slam in the sixth inning lifted the Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox 6-1 on Thursday night as Toronto moved one step closer to winning the American League East Division title. George Springer had a two-run homer in the same inning as Toronto (91-68) reduced its magic number to […]

Police in Wisconsin say a man from Ontario was killed in what’s believed to be a drive-by shooting. The Sheboygan Falls police department says 32-year-old Giovanni Michael Robinson was found with a fatal gunshot wound early Wednesday in the small city. Police say Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene and their preliminary investigation suggests […]

TORONTO — Baseball fans in Canada should not expect a repeat of a deal that allowed Sportsnet to air a simulcast of Apple TV’s Friday Night Baseball broadcast that featured the Toronto Blue Jays last week. As a result of the agreement, the streamer was given the rights for this Friday’s game between the Blue […]

The lawyer for a Lindsay, Ont., man who is charged with assaulting an alleged home intruder says “all options” will be discussed with Crown attorneys as they review the evidence in the case. The matter was briefly addressed in a Lindsay courtroom today and adjourned to Dec. 18. Jeremy David McDonald is facing assault charges […]

VAUGHAN — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the situation at Marineland is “terrible” for the 30 belugas that remain there, the last captive whales in Canada. Marineland recently requested export permits from the federal government to move all of its belugas out of the country. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says the government has yet to […]