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GOLDEN VALLEY — Canadian forward Marcus Caldeira, who scored 42 goals for West Virginia University during a stellar college career, has signed with Minnesota United. Minnesota took Caldeira in the first round (20th overall) of the 2024 MLS SuperDraft. But the 21-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., opted to return to school, unwilling to forgo his college […]

Brooke Henderson has had her sister Brittany Sepanik as her caddie for almost the entirety of her career. That will come to an end, or at least a yearlong pause, after this week’s Hilton Grand Vacation Tournament of Champions as Sepanik is set to begin maternity leave. The sisters have had success at the first […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s education minister placed a seventh school board under supervision Wednesday in order to prevent dozens of teachers from being laid off, he says, and he is planning to soon take control of another board over financial concerns. Paul Calandra announced that he has put Peel District School Board under supervision and is […]

TORONTO — Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario has banned media from its upcoming convention for the first time since he became the premier in 2018. Ford says he is always available to reporters, but the convention will remain closed to them. The convention is set to take place this weekend at the Toronto […]

A national legal organization is calling for an independent investigation after a lawyer alleged police officers slammed her head into a desk, dragged her out of a room in handcuffs and hauled her to the basement cells at a courthouse in Oshawa, Ont., last week. The Criminal Lawyers’ Association says the allegations against Durham Regional […]

Recent social media posts claimed a café in “Manchester” owned by a transgender man and non-binary woman planned to exclusively serve “non-binary and semibisexual people.” The story is fake, but it uses photos of real café owners in Toronto. The café’s co-owner says the business plans to serve everyone regardless of how they identify — […]

TORONTO — Officials in Toronto say navigating sidewalks has become an issue for many residents as snow removal efforts continue after a record-breaking winter storm hit the city on Sunday. City manager Paul Johnson says city crews are not doing enough and need to improve their work over the next 24 hours by clearing more […]

TORONTO — For years, Justin Gray has been imagining music that, for the listener, feels like it is coming from every direction. That vision is now pointing him toward the Grammys. Gray is the first Canadian to ever be nominated in the best immersive album category — for a project brought to life with 38 […]

TORONTO — A group of Toronto cyclists are in Ontario’s highest court on Wednesday to defend their successful challenge of the province’s plan to rip up three stretches of the city’s bike lanes. The cyclists, including a bike courier and a university student, have so far successfully argued the unproven plan to improve traffic by […]

A series of collisions involving about 50 vehicles on Tuesday morning forced a prolonged closure of Highway 401 in both directions east of Toronto, Ontario Provincial Police said. Police said there was no indication that the crashes caused life-threatening or serious injuries, but several people were brought to hospital with minor injuries. An update Tuesday […]