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WEST PALM BEACH — Tyler Whitaker hit the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Houston Astros defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 on Friday in spring training action. With two outs, Whitaker’s line-drive single scored Ben Gamel after Ryan Wrobleski was walked. Toronto, which had its five-game winning streak […]

TORONTO — Advocacy groups are panning Prime Minister Mark Carney for eliminating the cabinet positions dedicated to people with disabilities and women and gender equality issues. Carney was sworn in as prime minister today, along with a slimmed-down cabinet of 23 ministers, down from 36 under former prime minister Justin Trudeau. Former minister for diversity, […]

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is immediately ending the consumer carbon price and made the change official during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first cabinet meeting this afternoon. Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April. He signed an order-in-council […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index gained 1.5 per cent Friday, rallying alongside U.S. markets to end an otherwise grim week for equities, while the price of gold topped US$3,000 an ounce for the first time ever. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 350.17 points at 24,553.40. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average […]

TORONTO — Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser and Gregg Berhalter, his Chicago Fire counterpart, are no strangers, having played shoulder to shoulder at centre back for the U.S. “He was a great player to play with, actually,” said Berhalter. “I have a lot of respect for Robin, and for what he’s done and him as […]

The City of Waterloo says police will be allowed to detain and charge anyone who attends or hosts an unsanctioned St. Patrick’s Day street party or otherwise violates its nuisance bylaw over the weekend. The city says it obtained an injunction in an effort to help law enforcement deal with large, unsanctioned gatherings, which it […]

OTTAWA — Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister Friday, along with a leaner Liberal cabinet that he said is focused on “meeting the moment” and facing down the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Here’s what the world’s top news outlets wrote about Carney after his appointment. The United States: […]

THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, Ont. — Canada’s Reece Howden won ski cross gold and teammate Kevin Drury earned bronze at a World Cup on Friday at Craigleith Ski Club. Howden, from Cultus Lake, B.C., finished ahead of Switzerland’s Alex Fiva in the four-man big final. Drury, from Toronto, reached the podium by holding off Florian Wilmsmann […]

OTTAWA — Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa today. Here’s the latest on today’s events — which also included the introduction of a new cabinet (all times Eastern): _____ 1:57 p.m. Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland is dismissing the suggestion that her new role […]

The City of Hamilton says it has cleared more than a dozen encampments from public property as of this week under a municipal bylaw, following the council’s repeal of a protocol that had permitted them. In 2023, the city approved an encampment protocol that allowed outdoor shelters as long as they followed specific location guidelines […]