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TORONTO — The hits keep coming for teenage striker Kaylee Hunter. Last year the Calgary native — then 16 — was the youngest player invited to a Canadian under-20 camp in Germany. At club level, she was honoured as the Most Promising Female Player as part of the Vancouver Whitecaps annual player awards. Playing for […]

TORONTO — The 2026 World Cup will have just one official training facility in Toronto, consisting of a new pitch and field house at Centennial Park in Etobicoke. Work has already started on the slimmed-down project, in conjunction with a separate 10-year plan to revamp the park, which opened in 1967 to celebrate Canada’s 100th […]

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Joly to meet with U.S. counterpart Rubio Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., today to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as Canada faces the threat of devastating tariffs landing as early […]

TORONTO — Winding up a rock band is never easy, but for members of Sum 41, the experience has been an odd mixture of confusion, camaraderie and ultimately acceptance. It started two years ago with a surprise email from the band’s leader Deryck Whibley, who’s also their main songwriter. He told them, that after many […]

Here’s where the leaders of Ontario’s main political parties are on Wednesday, Jan. 29: Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford Windsor: After kicking off his campaign at 10 a.m., Ford is set to later hold a roundtable with Unifor Local 444 and visit workers at Harbour Technologies, a local manufacturer. — NDP Leader Marit Stiles Toronto: […]

OTTAWA — Bureaucrats working for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had diplomats push Denmark to speed up the appointment of former cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett as ambassador to that country — a change most embassy staff learned of through a media leak. The government has not offered a rationale for asking Denmark to expedite its approval […]

TORONTO — The vast majority of Canadian business leaders want a targeted, dollar-for-dollar retaliatory response if the United States delivers on its tariff threats this week, a new KPMG in Canada survey found. The survey, which polled 250 Canadian business leaders, found eight in 10 are bracing for a recession but are still prepared to […]

Ontario’s political party leaders are fanning out across the province today for their first official day on the snowy campaign trail. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford triggered the snap election more than a year before the next fixed date, plunging the province into a rare winter campaign that opposition parties say is unnecessary. Ford has […]

TORONTO — The family of a Toronto mother and son who died after getting food poisoning during their stay at a Dominican Republic resort are now suing a hotel and travel company, alleging they were negligent in their health and safety protocols and failed to provide timely medical help. April and Stephen Gougeon and their […]

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is set to make its first interest rate announcement of the year this morning. Forecasters are widely expecting a quarter-percentage-point cut. That would bring the Bank of Canada’s key rate down to three per cent and mark its sixth straight decrease. The latest employment figures in Statistics Canada’s December […]