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BRAMPTON, Ont. — Loblaw chairman Galen Weston, as well as the company’s new chief executive, pushed back on what they called “misguided criticism” of the grocer as a boycott againstthe company gains steam online.  “As a well-known company and Canada’s largest grocer, it is natural that Loblaw would be singled out as a focal point […]

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Maple Leafs star forward Auston Matthews will miss Thursday night’s Game 6 against the Boston Bruins. Coach Sheldon Keefe said following Thursday’s morning skate that Matthews would be unavailable with Toronto trailing 3-2 in its first-round playoff series. Matthews, who led the NHL with 69 goals in the regular season, was […]

TORONTO — Auston Matthews will miss the Maple Leafs’ must-win Game 6 against the Boston Bruins. Head coach Sheldon Keefe said following today’s morning skate the star sniper would be unavailable with Toronto down 3-2 in its first-round playoff series. Matthews was pulled from Game 4 with an illness and didn’t play in Tuesday’s 2-1 […]

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Loblaw’s new chief executive, as well as chairman Galen Weston, pushed back on what they called “misguided criticism” of the grocer as a push to boycott the company gains steam online.  President and CEO Per Bank said at the grocer’s annual meeting that there’s a lot of misinformation online about Loblaw, and […]

TORONTO — DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. says April car sales were up 14 per cent compared with the same month last year, though they’re still below levels seen pre-pandemic.  Auto sales last month totalled 164,000 units, higher than April 2023, which was the weakest month for sales last year.  Andrew King, managing partner at DesRosiers, […]

TORONTO — Thomson Reuters Corp. reported lower profits but a rise in revenue in its first quarter as it also modestly raised its expectations for revenue growth for the year. The company says it now expects total revenue growth for 2024 of between 6.5 and seven per cent, up from a February estimate of about […]

TORONTO — Canada’s financial intelligence agency says it has levied a $9.2-million penalty against The Toronto-Dominion Bank for non-compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing measures as the bank also faces compliance investigations in the U.S.  The penalty by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada follows on a $7.5-million fine against RBC […]

TORONTO — A group of students at the University of Toronto say they have started a protest on campus to call on the university to cut its ties with Israel over the ongoing war in Gaza.  The students say in a news release that they breached a newly-installed fence around an area on campus known […]

TORONTO — A judo athlete who trains in Toronto has been named to the Olympic refugee team for the Paris Games. Nigara Shaheen was among 36 athletes from 11 different countries introduced by the International Olympic Committee on Thursday. The IOC first entered a refugee team in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio to represent […]

TORONTO — A new report lays out how an innovative funding model for community groups could be scaled up. The report by Tapestry Community Capital looks at the growing use of community bonds, which not-for-profits are using to raise money for everything from solar projects to social housing.  Community bonds pay out interest, and eventually […]