News

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will review the case of a man who received a sentence to be served under house arrest for illegal handgun possession. Terrell Burke-Whittaker was at a Toronto restaurant in June 2020 when someone in a parked car began shooting into a lot behind the building. Burke-Whittaker pulled a […]

Air Canada plans to launch flights to the U.S. out of Toronto’s island airport in a bid for business passengers that marks a direct challenge to rival Porter Airlines. The country’s largest airline says it will fly planes between Billy Bishop airport and New York City, Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., starting next spring for […]

TORONTO — A Toronto bar and music venue says it had to take down social media posts promoting its specials and watch party for Game 7 of the American League Championship Series after receiving a warning letter from the Toronto Blue Jays about using the team’s logo. Sneaky Dee’s manager George Diamantouros says his business […]

The federal and Ontario governments are putting a total of $3 billion toward a project to build four small nuclear reactors in the Greater Toronto Area. Prime Minister Mark Carney has added the Darlington New Nuclear Project to his list of projects deemed to be in the national interest and therefore worthy of fast tracking. […]

TORONTO — A new study of one of Canada’s most urbanized rivers suggests it dumps the equivalent of about 18 cars worth of microplastics into Lake Ontario every year, a finding that shocked the lead author and underscored efforts to cut down on pollution. The peer-reviewed study published Thursday estimates the Don River basin flushes […]

Diehard Toronto Blue Jays fan Natashia Moodie has been reflecting on her favourite baseball team’s journey to this season’s World Series — a first in 32 years. The last time the Jays made it to Major League Baseball’s championship series, she was eight. She remembers popping in and out to watch the final games between […]

TOKYO — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez lost her second-round women’s match at the Toray Pan Pacific Open to second-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan on Thursday. Rybakina advanced to the quarterfinals to face Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, who saved a match point en route to beating Rybakina in a semifinal of the National Bank Open in Montreal. […]

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has approved plans for construction of North America’s first coastal refuge for whales and dolphins retired from marine theme parks. Here are four things you need to know about the project. MONEY — Charles Vinick, CEO of the U.S.-based Whale Sanctuary Project, said it will cost about $15 million […]

Joe Carter was just like Toronto Blue Jays fans across Canada on Monday night, watching Game 7 of the American League Championship Series with bated breath. Carter is one of the all-time great Blue Jays, having won the World Series with Toronto in 1992 and 1993. His walk-off home run lifted the Jays to victory […]

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has approved plans for construction of North America’s first coastal refuge for whales and dolphins retired from marine theme parks. Here are five things you need to know about the project. MONEY — Charles Vinick, CEO of the U.S.-based Whale Sanctuary Project, said it will cost about $15 million […]