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TORONTO — If you catch Sasha Ivanov at the supermarket these days, chances are he’ll be snapping a photo of something on the store’s shelves. His new app, Maple Scan, helps shoppers identify Canadian products by analyzing photographs of products to provide details about where they were made and whether they meet the government criteria […]

TORONTO — The next Ontario government should take the lead in encouraging urgent expansion of interprovincial electricity transmission while ensuring it advances a transition to a clean economy, a new report by the Pembina Institute said Wednesday. Reducing interprovincial barriers could open up new markets for Ontario’s electricity that are insulated from ongoing trade uncertainty […]

KINGSTON, Ont. — Tyler Hopkins scored twice, Ethan Hay chipped in with three assists, and the Kingston Frontenacs edged the Barrie Colts 6-4 in Ontario Hockey League action on Tuesday night at Slush Puppie Place. Emil Pieniniemi, Landon Wright, Tuomas Uronen and Cal Uens (empty-netter) also scored for the Frontenacs (32-14-5-3), who now trail the […]

With a plane sitting upside-down on the tarmac at the Toronto airport, Anne Robinson remained pragmatic about the slim chance she could end up in a similar crash. “Deep down, it does (scare me), but it’s not going to stop me,” Robinson said Tuesday after her flight out of Toronto Pearson International Airport was cancelled […]

TORONTO — Investigators examining the wreckage of a Delta Air Lines flight at Toronto Pearson Airport said Tuesday they’ve recovered the plane’s black box, as authorities praised the “textbook” emergency response to the fiery crash landing. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is leading the probe of the crash that injured 21 people on […]

TORONTO — A teen girl accused of stabbing a homeless Toronto man did not have a knife at any point that night, her lawyers told an Ontario court Tuesday as they argued the girl wasn’t the one to inflict the fatal wound. Defence lawyers for the girl began making their closing submissions after her co-accused […]

OTTAWA — Chrystia Freeland’s Liberal leadership campaign is insisting that fundraising numbers released Tuesday don’t give an accurate picture of her haul during the first part of the race. Campaign data released by Elections Canada for the campaign period ending Feb. 9 shows Freeland raised just over $226,661, putting her behind presumed front-runner Mark Carney […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index rose Tuesday, helped by strength in the energy sector as the prices for oil and natural gas climbed, while U.S. stock markets eked out gains. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 165.61 points at 25,648.84 after a holiday Monday on both sides of the border. In New York, the […]

Police say a 22-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and arson after a person was found dead at the site of a restaurant fire north of Toronto. York Regional Police say they were called to a restaurant in King Township at around 3 a.m. Sunday for reports of a fire. They say the […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s snap election campaign is heading for its post-debate home stretch, with political parties starting to dig up dirt, sling mud and change course. The Feb. 27 vote is now less than 10 days away, and while there is nary a costed platform to be found, aside from the Greens’, the campaign appears […]