York Region

James Chiu, the president and co-founder of Mandarin who turned a humble Brampton restaurant into Ontario’s most popular all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet chain, has died. Chiu died on Wednesday, just days after his 78th birthday, after battling pulmonary fibrosis, his family said. “He lived with positivity and gratitude until his peaceful passing,” the family wrote in […]

Police in Toronto and York Region are asking for the public’s help in identifying a young suspect in two synagogue shootings that happened in March. Police say they obtained a court order to release photos of the suspect because he is believed to be a youth, and the images will be removed from circulation on […]

TORONTO — The president and co-founder of Mandarin, Ontario’s most popular all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet, has died. The family of James Chiu says he died on Wednesday, just days after his 78th birthday, after battling pulmonary fibrosis. His family says in an online tribute that Chiu and his parents immigrated to Montreal from Taiwan in 1963, […]

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 […]