York Region

HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ first exhibition game comes at a good time for head coach Scott Milanovich. The Ticats host the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday afternoon at Hamilton Stadium in the first pre-season contest for both clubs. It comes almost two weeks after CFL teams opened their training camps. Milanovich said the opportunity for […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they’ve intensified a search for a teen girl who has been missing for six days as her parents plead for her to come home and officers appeal to the public for information. Police say 14-year-old Esther was last seen in the Earl Bales Park area in North York on Friday […]

HAMILTON — The American Hockey League team coming to Hamilton is drawing inspiration from the city’s steelworking history, and its nickname, for its branding. Team owners Oak View Group (OVG), TD Coliseum and the NHL’s New York Islanders jointly announced Thursday that the team playing in the city known colloquially as “The Hammer” will be […]

Ontario’s police watchdog says a former Durham Region police officer is facing a slew of sexual assault charges related to alleged incidents dating back more than two decades. The Special Investigations Unit says the alleged offences took place in 2003 and the agency investigated them at the time, but then reopened the case in 2024 […]

KELOWNA — Kelowna Rockets owner Bruce Hamilton isn’t thinking about legacy. He is still trying to live in the moment, with the Rockets hosting the Memorial Cup for the first time since winning on home ice in 2004. That tournament produced some of his fondest memories in hockey, and he hopes to replicate that atmosphere […]

BOSTON — The U.S. Attorney’s Office says a Canadian citizen who has been living in the United States for decades has been charged with voting illegally. The 40-year-old accused faces one count of unlawful voting by an alien and one count of casting a ballot known to be fraudulent. Prosecutors said in a news release […]

Weeks before global soccer fans are due to descend on Toronto and Vancouver for the World Cup, some Uber drivers were trying to score better working conditions during the tournament. At a routine meeting, they told the ride-hailing giant they’re worried about how they’ll contend with the traffic — and tempers — 650,000 expected guests […]

An Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal due to American flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Online plane tracker FlightAware shows the plane was en route from Paris to Detroit when it landed at Trudeau International Airport on Wednesday. Air France says […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s ministry of health says a person in the province who recently travelled to East Africa is being tested for Ebola virus and is in hospital. A spokesperson says the patient is being tested for a range of infections, including the deadly virus, “out of an abundance of caution,” given the person’s recent […]

WINNIPEG — Police say they have made the largest drug bust in Manitoba history, arresting 33 people and seizing 525 kilograms of cocaine, fentanyl and other substances. It was a two-year interprovincial operation that also involved police forces in Ontario and Alberta, and with suspects alleged to have ties to the Hells Angels and Mexican […]