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TORONTO — An organization tasked with managing Canada’s nuclear waste found one site to store millions of bundles of radioactive used fuel for thousands of years hundreds of metres underground — and now it’s looking for a second. As the Nuclear Waste Management Organization begins the regulatory process for a deep geological repository site in […]

TORONTO — Shaedon Sharpe’s having a record-setting season for himself and for a Canadian. Sharpe’s 36-point performance led the Portland Trail Blazers past Toronto 112-103 on Thursday, tying a personal best and scoring the most points by a Canadian against the Raptors. Sharpe wasn’t even aware that he had made history at Scotiabank Arena until […]

TORONTO — Canadian Shaedon Sharpe’s 36-point performance led the Portland Trail Blazers past the Toronto Raptors 112-103 on Thursday. Sharpe, from London, Ont., was in an all-Canadian backcourt with Toronto’s Dalano Banton as Portland (34-43) won back-to-back games. Sharpe added six rebounds and five assists, while Banton had 23 points. Deni Avdija had a double-double […]

Halton regional police say they are looking for two suspects after a Hindu temple was vandalized in Georgetown, Ont., over the weekend. Police say two male suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts were seen leaving a pub in the downtown area around 1 a.m. on Sunday. They say the suspects were then seen walking to the Sri […]

The RCMP says officers arrested a Cuban national attempting to enter Canada from the United States by running across the Fort Erie International Railway Bridge that connects Ontario to New York. The Mounties say their Niagara-on-the-Lake border integrity unit officers, with help from Ontario Provincial Police, arrested the individual last month under the Immigration and […]

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 89 new measles cases over the last week, bringing the province’s case count to 661 since an outbreak began in the fall. That’s compared to just over 100 new cases last week and 120 the week before. Dr. Sarah Wilson, a public health physician at Public Health Ontario, said numbers […]

TORONTO — A teen girl accused of fatally stabbing a homeless man during a chaotic and violent swarming in downtown Toronto may have meant to hurt him, but she didn’t intend to kill him, her defence lawyer argued Thursday. Defence lawyer Boris Bytensky argued the girl, who was 14 at the time, wasn’t the one […]

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 89 new measles cases over the last week, bringing the province’s case count to 661 since an outbreak began in the fall. That’s compared to just over 100 new cases last week and 120 the week before. Public Health Ontario says there are 52 hospitalizations – 10 more than last […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he was relieved to see Canada is not facing any of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new “reciprocal” tariffs, but he is still very concerned about the province’s auto sector. While the White House says Canada and Mexico are not subject to Trump’s latest tariffs, they remain under previous […]

TORONTO — Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area fell 23.1 per cent in March while more supply hit the market, helping bring down prices compared with a year ago. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board said 5,011 homes were sold last month, compared with 6,519 in March 2024. Sales were down 2.4 per cent […]