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TORONTO — Four people are dead and a woman was sent to hospital after a fiery crash overnight in downtown Toronto, police said Thursday, shutting down a stretch of the waterfront road. Police said officers were called to the single-vehicle crash at Lakeshore Boulevard and Cherry Street shortly after midnight. A vehicle with five occupants […]

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. reported a third-quarter profit of $526 million compared with a loss a year ago. The company says the profit amounted to 98 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept. 30. The result compared with a loss of $99 million or 20 cents per diluted share in the same […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say four people were killed overnight after a vehicle struck a wall and caught fire. One woman was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. More coming. The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce a major drop in the number of new permanent residents Canada will accept in 2025. As first reported by The National Post, the government’s immigration levels are expected to drop to 395,000 in 2025, a huge decrease from the 500,000 that had previously been set […]

KITCHENER, Ont. — A sentencing hearing is set to continue today for a man who stabbed three people in a University of Waterloo gender studies class last year. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman has pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault, one count of assault with a weapon and one count of assault causing bodily harm in […]

TORONTO — Equifax Inc. is launching a program to allow newcomers to transfer their foreign credit history to Canada. The credit reporting company said Thursday that the Global Consumer Credit File will make it easier for immigrants to access services like loans and cellphone plans in Canada by providing the additional data. “It’s really important […]

TORONTO — A new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information says 83 per cent of adults in this country have a regular primary-care provider, but that still leaves 5.4 million adults without one. It says seniors 65 years and older are more likely to have access to a family doctor or nurse practitioner […]

SARNIA, Ont. — Carter Kostuch scored the shootout winner to give the Sarnia Sting a 2-1 win over the Flint Firebirds in Ontario Hockey League play on Wednesday. Alessandro Di Iorio scored in regulation for Sarnia and Matthew Wang tallied for Flint. Sting goaltender Nick Surzycia stopped 42 of 43 shots. GREYHOUNDS 5 SPIRIT 3 […]

TORONTO (AP) — Evan Mobley scored 25 points, Donovan Mitchell had 21 and the Cleveland Cavaliers routed the Toronto Raptors 136-106 on Wednesday night. Caris LeVert shot 8 for 9 and scored 19 points, and Jarrett Allen had 14 for the Cavs, whose biggest lead was 33. Cleveland won for the first time in five […]

TORONTO — Evan Mobley had 25 points and eight rebounds to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 136-106 rout in Toronto’s home opener on Wednesday as the Raptors also lost starting point guard Immanuel Quickley. Quickley had 13 points, four assists and two rebounds for Toronto (0-1) before leaving the game late in the first […]