York Region

TORONTO — The “Eve of Toronto” has a followup. And it’s providing plenty of colour on the wall in Blue Jays manager John Schneider’s office. Star pitcher Dylan Cease’s latest artistic output – safe to call it “Tom Selleck” given the block letters of the actor’s name are sprawled across the canvas – was hanging […]

TORONTO — When there is little runway left to work with as baseball’s regular season winds down, costly mistakes tend to be magnified. Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. got burned on a back-pick play in the first inning of Friday’s 7-4 loss to Baltimore. He was caught too far off first base and catcher Samuel Basallo’s […]

TORONTO — Dylan Beavers hit a leadoff homer and the Baltimore Orioles tacked on five more runs in the second inning en route to a 7-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night at Rogers Centre. Colton Cowser had a two-run double and Beavers added a two-run single off Toronto starter Max Scherzer […]

TORONTO — After an off-day in September 2001, former Blue Jays manager Buck Martinez was driving from New Jersey to Baltimore for a series against the Orioles when news of the U.S. terror attacks came across his car radio. When he arrived in the Maryland city, uncertainty hung in the air – particularly with the […]

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Police in Niagara Region say they have charged one of their own officers with impaired driving after he allegedly fled an attempted traffic stop and collided with another vehicle. Police say they responded to reports of an impaired driver in Niagara-on-the-Lake around 8:20 p.m. on Thursday and tried to stop a grey Dodge […]

Statistics Canada says the newly opened Gordie Howe International Bridge has seen more than 270,000 crossings in its first full month of operation. The federal agency says nearly 135,000 return trips by Canadian residents, and 101,000 trips by U.S. residents were recorded at the bridge in August. It also says that 34,800 transport trucks used […]

SAULT STE. MARIE — Algoma Steel has been fined $1.2 million for a 2022 spill into the St. Marys River along the Canada-United States border. The Sault Ste. Marie steelmaker faces the fines after pleading guilty in an Ontario court this week to two federal environmental offences. Officials say an estimated 1,000 to 1,250 litres […]

TORONTO — A new report has found an overreliance on visual inspections of the train tracks may have contributed to the derailment of a GO Transit train at Toronto’s Union Station that disrupted commuter travel for days earlier this year. The report recently released by Metrolinx confirms an initial investigation that found the Feb. 2 […]

HAMILTON — Hamilton police say the death of a 54-year-old man found on a sidewalk earlier this week is now being treated as suspicious after investigators reviewed new information. Police say that information raised concerns about the man’s death, but they did not elaborate further. The death has not been labelled a homicide at this […]

DALLAS — Thousands of U.S. President Donald Trump’s most ardent followers gathered in Dallas for “Trump-a-palooza” this week — and many parroted the president’s constant bashing of Canada. Lona Heins from Tennessee said Canada was “communist” and no longer shared the same values as the United States. “It’s contentious. I think Canada is socialist. It’s […]