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TORONTO — The WNBA expansion Toronto Tempo officially introduced Monica Wright Rogers as its first general manager. The Tempo, Canada’s first WNBA franchise, made the announcement Thursday after hiring Wright Rogers, 36, in January. Wright Rogers, a two-time WNBA champion as a guard with the Minnesota Lynx, joins the Tempo after spending the past two […]

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — The race for playoff spots at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts was a fight to the finish. While defending champion Rachel Homan, Alberta’s Kayla Skrlik and B.C.’s Corryn Brown secured spots early in Pool A, the three playoff teams from Pool B remained in flux heading into the final draw of […]

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford says his party will work to tear down interprovincial trade barriers amid ongoing U.S. tariff threats, as he prepares for his second trip to Washington, D.C., during the Ontario election campaign. Ford says a PC government would remove all of Ontario’s remaining party-specific exemptions under the Canada Free Trade Agreement, […]

OTTAWA — The federal government says several transnational criminal organizations are being listed as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code to fight fentanyl trafficking. More coming. Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press

A Toronto couple is facing charges after allegedly defrauding hundreds of Canadians out of millions of dollars. RCMP allege the pair used technology to hide their phone number in order to pose as bank, government or police employees and trick people into handing over money. They say the suspects, who are 29 and 31, used […]

Loblaw Companies Ltd. is seeing more participation in its popular PC Optimum loyalty program — and more points being redeemed at checkout. Customers redeemed more than a billion dollars’ worth of Optimum points in 2024, according to Loblaw’s annual report. There are more than 17 million active Optimum users. The strength of the program caused […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index fell more than 150 points in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the technology sector, while U.S. stock markets also dropped. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 168.77 points at 25,457.39. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 597.06 points at 44,030.53. The S&P 500 index […]

OTTAWA — The outgoing federal heritage minister says she wants to bar CBC/Radio-Canada from running ads during news programming and from charging subscription fees for digital products such as CBC Gem. In turn, the government would increase the public broadcaster’s funding and make it more stable. Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge, who released her plan for […]

TORONTO — Nearly 30,000 unionized municipal employees in Toronto could go on strike next month. The City of Toronto says it has received a no-board report from the Ontario Ministry of Labour, which would put the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 79 in a legal strike position, and the city in a legal lockout […]

This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. ___ Author: Daniel Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Western Michigan University Humans have always had a close connection with Lake Ontario. For centuries, this […]