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TORONTO — Lionel Messi arrives in Toronto on a roll, continuing his assault on the Major League Soccer record book. The 38-year-old Inter Miami captain had two goals and an assist in a 3-2 victory over visiting D.C. United last Saturday and the same haul in Wednesday’s 4-0 win at New York City FC. Thanks […]

Toronto police say they have charged a second suspect with first-degree murder in the death of an eight-year-old boy who was killed by a stray bullet while in bed last month. JahVai Roy was struck when gunfire erupted outside his North York apartment building just after midnight on Aug. 16, and he was pronounced dead […]

TORONTO — Ontario wrapped up the 2024-25 fiscal year with a significantly lower deficit than initially projected in the budget. Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney and Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy released public accounts today that show the province ended the year with a deficit of $1.1 billion. The 2024 budget had forecast a deficit of […]

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 […]