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CALGARY — Mya Jones scored twice as Calgary Wild FC routed CS Mont-Royal Outremont 4-0 on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the W Canadian Championship. Taylor Otto and Serita Thurton added goals for Calgary of the Northern Super League. CS Mont-Royal Outremont competes in Ligue1 Québec. The next quarterfinal is on Aug. 12 between the […]

A new report says the conditions that fuelled July wildfires in Ontario and the Northwest Territories were made roughly twice as likely due to human-induced climate change. The report by an international team of scientists says what were once rare fire conditions are now increasingly likely today due to climate change, driven by the burning […]

TORONTO — Kayla Cross saw her National Bank Open quest come to an end Wednesday. The Canadian tennis player fell 7-6 (2), 6-3 to Ann Li of the United States in second-round action. Cross fired three aces across the one-hour 27-minute match, but saved just three of seven break points. The 21-year-old from London, Ont., […]

TORONTO — Be it ever so humble, there really is no place like home for Chad Kelly and the Toronto Argonauts. Toronto (3-4) comes off a bye week to host the Calgary Stampeders (4-4) at BMO Field on Thursday night. It will be the Argos’ first game this season at the venue, which hosted six […]

Some vintners in Ontario’s popular winemaking area were in cleanup mode on Wednesday, days after major rainfalls swept through the Niagara Region and caused severe flooding. Parts of Zabek Vineyards in Niagara-on-the-Lake remained under floodwater after it was hit by back-to-back storms, said president and owner James Zabek. “My dad’s 70 years old, and he […]

TORONTO — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is not ruling out ever allowing jets to land at Toronto’s island airport, but he is focused for now on a broader transportation picture. Ontario Premier Doug Ford had pitched a plan to expand Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport to allow jets to land, framing it as […]

TORONTO — Another Canadian is out of the National Bank Open after Kayla Cross fell 7-6 (2), 6-3 to American Ann Li in Toronto on Wednesday. Cross fired three aces across the one-hour, 27-minute match, but saved just three of seven break points. The 21-year-old from London, Ont., shocked many at the tournament on Monday, […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s top court has declined to reopen its ruling in a landmark challenge of the provincial government’s climate plan, confirming the youth-led case should be sent back to a lower court. The young activists had asked the Court of Appeal for Ontario to reopen the appeal, arguing Premier Doug Ford’s government gutted a […]

TORONTO — Toronto just got its very own Moo Deng. The Toronto Zoo says a female pygmy hippo calf was born Sunday morning to 20-year-old mother Kindia. The zoo says the calf took her first steps within minutes of her birth and was confidently navigating her enclosure within a few hours. It says the newborn […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has met with the mayors of two flood-stricken municipalities under states of emergency in the Niagara Region. Ford shared in a post on social media this afternoon that he heard “directly from workers and community members impacted by the recent flooding” in St. Catharines and the nearby town of […]