York Region

WINNIPEG — Regina’s Mitchell Picton will make his first Grey Cup appearance Sunday for the hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders. Picton, 30, and fellow Canadian Ajou Ajou were added to the roster Saturday with Dhel Duncan-Busby and Joe Robustelli out due to injury. “It’s exciting,” said Picton, who will back up starter Ajou Ajou. “We have such […]

WINNIPEG — Regina’s Mitchell Picton will make his first Grey Cup appearance Sunday for the hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders. Picton, 30, and fellow Canadian Ajou Ajou were added to the roster Saturday with Dhel Duncan-Busby and Joe Robustelli out due to injury. “It’s exciting,” said Picton, who will back up starter Ajou Ajou. “We have such […]

SOUTH GLENGARRY — Provincial police say a pilot is dead after an accident involving two small airplanes in eastern Ontario. OPP say officers were called to a report hat two airplanes had possibly collided north of Martintown in South Glengarry on Saturday just after 11 a.m. They say one plane had landed safely while another […]

TORONTO — Housing advocates say Toronto’s winter services plan to help those experiencing homelessness is an improvement, but there’s still more work to be done to keep people warm and dry this winter. Starting today, the City of Toronto has added 1,275 shelter spaces for people experiencing homelessness to its shelter system for the winter. […]

PICTOU — Volunteers are searching for two missing Nova Scotia siblings who vanished in May. Six-year-old Lilly and four-year-old Jack Sullivan were reported missing on May 2 from Lansdowne Station, N.S. The family believes they wandered away from their home, but despite extensive searches, there’s been no sign of the children. An Ontario-based charity called […]

Amid the sprawling canola fields, white spruce and jack pine trees, fireweed and goldenrods of northern Alberta, Pat McNamara is having a case of nuclear déjà vu. Two decades ago, he lived in Port Hope, Ont., northeast of Toronto, in a community dealing with decades of nuclear ground contamination, including at his own daughter’s schoolyard. […]

MISSISSAUGA — Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after an 18-year-old boy fell to his death from a parking garage at a Mississauga shopping mall. The Special Investigations Unit says somebody called Peel Regional Police on Wednesday about a man in distress who was going to Square One Shopping Centre. An officer found the 18-year-old man […]

There isn’t much in combat sports that Denis (The Bosnian Menace) Puric hasn’t done. The 40-year-old Hamilton-based fighter has competed around the world, including the unlikely venue of Thai prison (as a guest rather than inmate). While Puric has competed in mixed martial arts for Bellator and other promotions, these days he is focusing on […]

Provincial police say two people have been arrested and another is wanted in an investigation into an attempted murder and a homicide in southern Ontario. OPP say York Region police officers responded to a report of a shooting in Vaughan, Ont., the night of Nov. 12, 2020 and one person was injured and taken to […]

KENORA — Provincial police say two suspects have been arrested in the death of a missing Kenora, Ont., resident, and one of them is facing a murder charge. Police say Mekhi Pelly of Grassy Narrows First Nation was reported missing on Oct. 26. They say the 21-year-old has since been confirmed dead. A 24-year-old suspect […]