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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will gather with his caucus on Parliament Hill today as he prepares to make another push to topple the Liberal government as early as next week. The one-day caucus meeting ahead of the return of Parliament Monday will begin with a public address by Poilievre, who has maintained his […]

EDMONTON — Josh Ross and his whisky-soaked ballad of heartbreak and hope took home top honours Saturday as k.d. lang got the band back together at the 2024 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. Ross, from Burlington, Ont., captured single of the year for “Trouble.” The 28-year-old former college football player turned country star also took […]

TORONTO (AP) — Jonathan Osorio and Deandre Kerr each scored a first-half goal and Toronto FC hung on for a 2-1 win over Austin in its first-ever visit to BMO Field on Saturday. Toronto (11-15-3) came into weekend play in eighth in the Eastern Conference. Austin (9-12-7) has won just one of its last six […]

TORONTO — Win for the Money and jockey Patrick Husbands combined to earn trainer Mark Casse his third $1-million Rogers Woodbine Mile crown Saturday. Husbands had the American-based five-year-old ride the rail to the upset win, Win for the Money’s first graded stakes victory, in 1:32.11. Husbands, who was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing […]

HAMILTON — Bo Levi Mitchell threw two touchdown passes as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 37-21 in the CFL’s annual Hall of Fame game Saturday afternoon. Mitchell finished 20-of-27 passing for 299 yards and an interception to lead Hamilton (4-9) to a second straight win. More importantly, the Ticats moved to within six […]

TORONTO (AP) — José Berríos pitched seven strong innings to win his seventh straight start, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in his 500th career run and scored twice, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-2 on Saturday. Guerrero, 25, is the youngest player in Blue Jays history to reach 500 RBIs. Davis […]

OTTAWA — On Monday Parliamentarians will return to the familiar stone walls of West Block in Ottawa to find the political landscape has shifted significantly. When they last gathered in the capital the Liberals knew their prospects were poor after languishing in the polls for more than a year, but they were secure in the […]

TORONTO — When Barbara Adhiya first learned that Terry Fox had run the length of a marathon a day during his journey across Canada, she was shocked. Like most Canadians, Adhiya had known about the icon’s 1980 mission to raise funds for cancer research through a 4,700-mile run from Newfoundland to British Columbia, but not […]

The Toronto Police Service has launched a homicide investigation into a Thursday morning stabbing in the city’s west end that killed one person and injured another. Officers responded to a See Ambulance call in the Lake Shore Boulevard and Islington Avenue area shortly after 6 a.m. They say there was an altercation between more than […]

TORONTO — Alejandro Kirk’s long single with the bases loaded provided the Toronto Blue Jays with a walk-off 4-3 win in the 11th inning of their series opener against the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday. With the Cardinals outfield in, Kirk drove a shot off the base of the left-field wall to give the Blue […]