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TORONTO — Ontario’s Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to come up with a three-year plan to balance their budgets, and service cuts and bed closures do not appear to be off the table for extreme cases. The Ontario Hospital Association has said that hospitals ended last year $360 million in the […]

TORONTO — Ontario politicians will return to Queen’s Park today for the first time in months as the legislature resumes. The province is expected to table a red tape reduction bill as its first order of business. That will include labour mobility legislation that would allow health-care professionals from other provinces to work here by […]

TORONTO — Timely hitting. Quality pitching. Stellar defence. The Toronto Blue Jays focused on the basics Sunday and it paid off with a 6-2 win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 6 that has both teams one win away from the World Series. Addison Barger and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered and starter Trey Yesavage went […]

TORONTO — This is exactly why the Blue Jays brought Shane Bieber to Toronto. Bieber will get the start in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners on Monday in the biggest game in Blue Jays history since they won the World Series in 1993. Bieber was traded to Toronto […]

TORONTO — Ben Flanagan, of Kitchener, Ont., captured the Canadian men’s marathon title in his debut at the distance, finishing 10th overall at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Sunday in two hours 15 minutes 39 seconds. Flanagan, a 2024 Olympian in the 5,000 metres and the Canadian record holder in the 5-kilometre and 10-kilometre […]

MONTREAL — One of the major unions in Quebec is calling attention to an omnibus bill it says could put the health and safety of public sector workers at risk. If passed the bill would roll back previously won laws surrounding the implementation of health and safety measures in the health care, social services and […]

A 53-year-old woman has died after being hit Saturday by a driver in Quebec City. Police say the accident happened on Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard at around 8 p.m., in the northwest end of the city. Spokesperson Laurence Godbout said by time first responders arrived they found others giving the woman first aid. She was rushed to […]

TORONTO — Several parent groups against a looming speed camera ban in Ontario are set to rally across the province Monday. Premier Doug Ford announced his Progressive Conservative government would table a bill to ban the cameras upon the legislature’s return earlier this month. Tom Devito, who organized a rally set to take place in […]

TORONTO — Megan Pakulis’s road to Canada’s Rugby League World Cup qualifiers in Brampton, Ont., this week has taken her through England and Australia. The 28-year-old forward from Toronto has blazed a trail along the way, playing for England’s York Valkyrie before joining the Gold Coast Titans earlier this year, becoming the first Canadian to […]

REGINA — Cindy Camp’s great-grandmother was only a name on the family tree until police called. An investigator told her it was believed Alice Spence had been killed more than 105 years ago, her body dumped in a well in Saskatchewan. Camp and her daughters were asked in the summer to provide DNA samples. They […]