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TORONTO — Richie Laryea and his teammates took the pitch for training Friday morning. The buzz of power drills echoed around BMO Field as construction crews continued to put finishing touches on a series of upgrades that include a 17,000-seat temporary expansion ahead of the World Cup. Canada’s men’s soccer team, meanwhile, was finalizing plans […]

Canada’s national lawyers group has rebuked a call from four premiers for Ottawa to overhaul how it appoints provincial superior court and appeal judges. The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec wrote this week in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney that they want to see only judges appointed who are first approved […]

TORONTO — What do conservation authorities, a downtown Toronto parking lot and freedom-of-information requests have in common? Provincial legislative changes are coming to all three, and they are jammed into an omnibus budget bill that Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy tabled Thursday. There are also proposed changes to the ticket resale market, retail shopping on […]

TORONTO — Ontario Power Generation’s former CEO is at the top of the list of high-earning public servants for the year after he retired. Ken Hartwick retired at the end of 2024, a year in which he earned more than $2 million, but Ontario’s public sector salary disclosure — the so-called Sunshine List — shows […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s housing start projections have been revised downward once again in the province’s budget, putting the government even farther off track from building 1.5 million homes over 10 years. At the time of last year’s budget the province expected to see 74,800 homes built in 2026, already lower than the previous budget forecast, […]

TORONTO — An Ontario man who pleaded guilty to three terrorism charges has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years. Matthew Althorpe admitted to creating and publishing white supremacist propaganda as an active member of the terror group Atomwaffen Division, and an agreed statement of facts in […]

An inquest will begin next week to investigate the 2021 death of an Indigenous woman in St. Catharines, Ont., shortly after she was discharged from a hospital emergency room visit. Heather Winterstein was a 24-year-old member of the Cayuga Nation with ties to Six Nations of the Grand River. The Chiefs of Ontario organization says […]

TORONTO — As Toys “R” Us Canada prepares to ask a court for permission to put the business up for sale, it’s closing at least two more stores. In new court documents, the chain says it’s notified the landlords at the St. Laurent Centre in Ottawa and Woodgate Plaza in St. John’s, Nfld. that its […]

LOS ANGELES — An Ontario man has pleaded guilty to running a drug-trafficking operation that U.S. officials say brought hundreds of kilograms of meth and cocaine worth up to US$17 million from the United States into Canada. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California says 62-year-old Guramrit Sidhu of Brampton, Ont., led […]

TORONTO — When the Toronto Blue Jays raise their 2025 American League Championship banner to the rafters of Rogers Centre on Friday, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., is going to give himself a moment to let his feelings come out. After all, Toronto came within a hairsbreadth of winning the Blue Jays’ third Major League Baseball championship […]