York Region

TORONTO (AP) — Bob Cole, the voice of hockey in Canada for a half century who served as the soundtrack for some of the national sport’s biggest moments, has died. He was 90. Friend and fellow broadcaster John Shannon said Cole died Wednesday night in his hometown of St. John’s, the capital of the Canadian […]

TORONTO — Rogers Communications and the NHL have reached an exclusive agreement with Amazon’s Prime Video to carry Monday regular-season games in Canada for the next two seasons. Rogers and the league said in a joint statement Thursday that Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English […]

TORONTO — The Writers Guild of Canada says its members have voted to authorize a strike if negotiators can’t reach a deal with the Canadian Media Producers Association. The WGC says 96.5 per cent of those who voted were in favour of authorizing a strike, and a record 70.2 per cent of eligible voters cast […]

TORONTO — Mining company BHP Group Ltd. says it has make a takeover offer for Anglo American plc. worth about US$39 billion. BHP says the combined company would have a portfolio of large, low-cost assets focused on iron ore and metallurgical coal as well as potash and copper.  Under the plan proposed by BHP, Anglo […]

TORONTO — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is asking Toronto’s police services board whether it thinks comments made by the force’s chief were appropriate after a man was acquitted in the death of an officer. The CCLA is also asking the board what steps it will take to ensure Chief Myron Demkiw and other police […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was down nearly 100 points in late-morning trading, led by losses in the technology sector, while U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 96.07 points at 21,777.65. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 593.20 points at 37,867.72. The S&P 500 index […]

TORONTO — Shawn Hook is making his return to pop music after a tonsil cancer diagnosis threatened to silence his singing career. The Juno-nominated performer — known for hits that include “Sound of Your Heart” and the Vanessa Hudgens duet “Reminding Me” — says his life and career were put on hold in January 2023 […]

TORONTO — When the head of Microsoft Canada needed to write a letter of interest as part of an application to join a not-for-profit board, he decided to put the tech giant’s software to the test. Chris Barry commanded Copilot, the firm’s generative artificial intelligence service, to craft a five-paragraph missive based on his LinkedIn […]

Honda is set to build an electric vehicle battery plant next to its Alliston, Ont., assembly plant, which it is retooling to produce fully electric vehicles, all part of a $15-billion project that will include up to $5 billion in public money. The two plants are expected to create 1,000 jobs on top of retaining […]

TORONTO — The union representing hundreds of striking Art Gallery of Ontario workers says it’s reached a tentative deal with the museum. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says they reached the deal late last night, after 16 hours of bargaining. The downtown Toronto museum has been closed for a month while more than 400 […]