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TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins says the arrival of veteran pitcher Max Scherzer will have an impact on and off the field. But Atkins, also the Jays executive vice-president of baseball operations, says the 40-year-old Scherzer brings more than three Cy Young Awards, two World Series wins and a slew of […]

OTTAWA — As the federal government explores new ways to use artificial intelligence, it’s also being warned to keep the technology away from criminal justice, policy-making and hiring. Then-president of the Treasury Board Anita Anand announced in April the federal government is drafting an AI strategy, due to be released this spring. The government ran […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Donald Trump is not joking when he says he’d like to make Canada the 51st state, and the U.S. president’s desire to annex this country is related to its supply of critical minerals. Trudeau made the remarks to more than 100 business, labour and industry leaders who were invited to […]

OTTAWA — Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is criticizing the federal government over the time it’s taking to appoint what he calls a border czar. Ford says the Trump administration has made it clear that security along the Canada-U.S. border must be tightened, and he wants Canada to move more quickly. Speaking on the […]

TORONTO — It’s not the type of trade rebuilding teams generally make. Yet the Toronto Raptors (16-35) flipped the script on Thursday, sending the New Orleans Pelicans a 2026 first-round pick from Indiana, their own 2031 second-round pick and veterans Bruce Brown and Kelly Olynyk for pending free agent Brandon Ingram. For a Raptors team […]

A man has been arrested and charged in the 1998 homicide of a 24-year-old pregnant woman in Toronto after police say they used investigative genetic genealogy to crack the cold case. Det. Sgt. Steve Smith says a 50-year-old man from Gander, N.L., who had been on a flight from Edmonton was intercepted and arrested at […]

Health care, tax cuts and a pledge to build a tunnel under Highway 401 are the focus on the Ontario campaign trail today. NDP Leader Marit Stiles has pledged to connect every Ontarian to a family doctor or nurse practitioner at a cost of more than $4 billion. Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie also reiterated her […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was down in late-morning trading as stocks in the telecom and technology sectors fell, while U.S. stock markets also moved lower. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 72.28 points at 25,462.21. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 228.90 points at 44,518.73. The S&P 500 index […]

Marineland has euthanized a seven-year-old beluga whale after a long battle with several different medical conditions, making it the 18th such whale to die at the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction since 2019. Ontario’s Animal Welfare Services team received confirmation of a beluga’s death on Thursday, a Ministry of the Solicitor General spokesperson said. Eos […]

TORONTO — Treble Charger musician Greig Nori has filed legal documents in an Ontario court saying that Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley’s memoir has helped proliferate “fabricated” details about their sexual relationship and caused “enormous damage” to his career and reputation. A new statement of claim filed by Nori alleges that Whibley’s book “Walking Disaster: […]