York Region

REGINA — Mitch Picton is calling it a career. The Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver announced his retirement Friday. The 30-year-old Regina native played nine seasons with the CFL club. Picton will go out as a champion, having helped the Riders down Montreal 25-17 in the 2025 Grey Cup game at Winnipeg’s Princess Auto Stadium. Saskatchewan selected […]

The nomination period for mayoral, council and school trustee candidates for this fall’s Ontario municipal elections opens today. Candidates have until Aug. 21 to file nomination papers with their municipal clerk. To run for a position, candidates must fill out a form, pay a nomination fee and provide a list of at least 25 endorsement […]

ST. JOHN’S — A draft deal between hydroelectric utilities in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador has expired, but at least one premier is keen to keep negotiating. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham ordered a review of the tentative agreement, announced by the province’s former Liberal government in 2024. A spokesperson for Wakeham said he […]

The body of an Ontario police officer who died in a highway crash east of Toronto this week was taken to Oshawa on Thursday ahead of his funeral. Sgt. Brandon Malcolm died while on duty on Monday after a single-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle on Highway 401 in Cobourg. The procession departed the Centre of […]

TORONTO — Police say a suspect is in custody after a daytime shooting in north Toronto that left a man dead. Investigators say they were called to the area of Marlee Avenue and Glengrove Avenue West just before 12:30 p.m. Thursday and found a man with gunshot wounds. They say he died at the scene. […]

Rev. Maggie Helwig went into Wednesday night with a plan. The priest at Toronto’s St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church was attending the Politics and the Pen gala, an annual fundraiser attended by Ottawa’s power players where the $40,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is handed out. Helwig’s book, “Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community,” was among the […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say a fire that tore through a historic yacht club on Wednesday is now being investigated as arson. Fire officials said they were dispatched to a three-alarm fire at Toronto Humber Yacht Club shortly before 5 a.m. and arrived to find flames coming from all sides of the building and through […]

A flotilla organizer from Montreal says two Canadians were detained by Israel after the boats they were sailing on were intercepted overnight during a mission to break the nearly 20-year naval blockade of Gaza. The Global Sumud Flotilla identified the Canadians as Marie Tota and Umir Tiar. Organizer Ehab Lotayef spoke to The Canadian Press […]

TORONTO — The body of an Ontario police officer who died in a highway crash east of Toronto this week will be taken to Oshawa this afternoon ahead of his funeral. Sgt. Brandon Malcolm died while on duty on Monday after a single-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle on Highway 401 in Cobourg. The Ontario Provincial […]

An Anglican priest has won a top literary prize for her book about Canada’s homelessness crisis. Maggie Helwig received the $40,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing at a ceremony in Ottawa on Wednesday night. She took home the award for “Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community.” The book follows Helwig’s fight to allow […]