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OTTAWA — A White House official says a call is scheduled this morning between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump this morning. The call will be the first between the Canadian and American leaders since Carney was sworn in as prime minister earlier this month amid Trump’s escalating trade war and threats […]

OTTAWA — The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $26.8 billion for the April-to-January period of its 2024-25 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $25.7 billion for the same period a year earlier. According to the Finance Department’s monthly fiscal monitor, revenue for the 10-month period totalled $398.6 billion, up from […]

OTTAWA — A White House official says Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump this morning. More to come. Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Leaving behind the sterile office corridors of “Severance,” Britt Lower pedalled through Toronto’s bustling streets in order to find her character’s pulse for “Darkest Miriam.” Directed by Naomi Jaye, the brooding and quirky Canadian drama is adapted from Martha Baillie’s Giller Prize-shortlisted novel “The Incident Report,” which draws on the author’s own experiences […]

A blast of wintry weather across a swath of Canada is expected to disrupt commutes and bring possible power outages as a long line of warnings stretch from Edmonton to the shores of Lake Ontario. Environment Canada says the bulk of the notices are made up of snowfall warnings and in southern Ontario they turn […]

Officials say a hydro worker in Toronto is dead after he was injured while working on an electrical vault along the city’s harbourfront. Toronto police say the man was in his 30s. Fire officials say they responded to the call at 1:54 a.m. along Queens Quay near Rees Street where they found an injured worker […]

A long line of weather warnings stretches from the Edmonton area eastward to the shores of Lake Ontario. Environment Canada says the bulk of the notices are made up of snowfall warnings, until you reach Southern Ontario, where they turn into freezing rain warnings. The snowfall forecast calls for accumulations of up to 30 centimetres […]

TORONTO — At this point Tyler O’Neill isn’t even trying to hit home runs on opening day, it just sort of happens. O’Neill went yard on opening day for a sixth consecutive year, adding to his Major League Baseball record set last season, to help the Baltimore Orioles crush the Toronto Blue Jays 12-2 on […]

TORONTO — A Toronto lawyer says charges have been withdrawn against three more people accused of defacing a downtown Indigo bookstore in a 2023 protest. Arash Ghiassi, who represents two people in the group of accused, says that means seven out of 11 people have seen their charges dropped in the case. Ghiassi says two […]

TORONTO (AP) — Tyler O’Neill hit a three-run home run, extending his major league record by homering for a sixth straight opening day, and the Baltimore Orioles hit a franchise record six opening day home runs to rout the Blue Jays 12-2 on Thursday. Adley Rutschman and Cedric Mullins both homered twice and Jordan Westburg […]