York Region

PORT COLBORNE — Police in Ontario’s Niagara Region say a 27-year-old man has been arrested in a homicide investigation. Niagara regional police say officers responded to a possible weapons incident at an address in Port Colborne where a man was found dead. At the scene, they say officers also identified a possible armed suspect who […]

OTTAWA — An Ontario court judge has ruled a $510 million legal fee for lawyers who worked on a First Nations treaty rights case was unreasonable — and has ordered the fee scaled back to $23 million. “A lawyer’s professional retainer is not a lottery ticket offering a bonus prize of generational wealth to the […]

OTTAWA — Former Conservative senator Don Meredith has been found not guilty of sexual assault and criminal harassment. Meredith expressed relief Wednesday following the Ontario Superior Court verdict in a case that stretches back several years. Meredith, an ordained minister, was appointed to the Senate in 2010 by Stephen Harper, prime minister at the time. […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the U.S. ambassador to Canada should apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington after sources say he shouted profanely about the province’s anti-tariff ad. Sources who spoke to trade representative David Paterson after the incident at an event Monday in Ottawa but were not authorized to speak about it […]

Ontario Provincial Police say a British Columbia man has been arrested in a historic sexual assault investigation spanning nearly three decades and involving four alleged victims, three of whom were teens at the time. Police allege four females were sexually assaulted in separate incidents in Lambton County, Kent County and Sarnia between March and August […]

TORONTO — A northern Ontario First Nation has signed a partnership deal with the province designed to speed up construction of a road to the mineral-rich Ring of Fire. The province will give Webequie First Nation nearly $40 million to build a community centre with an arena, rebuild its airport terminal that recently burned down […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump are attending a dinner together in South Korea today. It marks the first time the pair will be in the same room since Trump cut off trade talks with Canada on Thursday. Both leaders are attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this week […]

Zellers is making a comeback — again. The discount retailer that’s died and been revived several times since its 1928 beginnings will get another relaunch Thursday at Londonderry Mall in Edmonton. The latest iteration will stick with the original’s emphasis on affordable family offerings but will pare back the kinds of merchandise sold and rethink […]

LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman stole the show in Game 3. The Toronto Blue Jays flashed their star power Tuesday in a Game 4 win that evened the World Series at two games apiece. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two-run homer and Shane Bieber threw 5 1/3 strong innings as Toronto beat […]

TORONTO — He didn’t return their advances. He decided to say yes to the rich Los Angeles suitor. Now they want their stuff back, and they want him to know — loudly, and in front of a lot of people — they’re fine without him. It’s not your friend and their ex — or their […]