York Region

TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said “everything needs to be assessed” in the wake of the team’s performance this past season. Speaking at a season-ending media availability on Wednesday at Rogers Centre, he added that the club plans to “drill down in every area.” Team president Mark Shapiro was scheduled to […]

AJAX — Police say they have charged two people accused of defrauding the Ajax FC Soccer Club of more than $650,000. Police in Durham region say they began the fraud investigation in December 2024 after receiving reports about irregularities in the club’s banking transactions. After going through several years of financial statements, police say they […]

What’s expected to be the strongest El Nino on record may delay Ontario’s stunning fall foliage, but experts say there’s no reason to worry – the colour show will go on. Dubbed by scientists as the “Super El Nino,” the climate pattern is already disrupting global weather with drought striking some parts of the planet, […]

TORONTO — After Tareq Hadhad and his family moved to Antigonish, N.S., as Syrian refugees in 2016, they built a business on the premise that chocolate was so uniting it could create peace. So when U.S. President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America in late August, the chief executive of Peace by Chocolate […]

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he has no plans to apply new trade pressure on the U.S. as Americans prepare for crucial midterm elections that could end Republican control of Congress. Speaking with reporters at a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, Carney said Canada has no intention of escalating the trade […]

The latest round of layoffs in Ontario’s steel belt highlights the ripple effects of U.S. tariffs as their impact reverberates through Canada’s manufacturing supply chain, industry experts say. Stelco Holdings Inc. on Monday said it was laying off up to 500 workers at its Hamilton and Lake Erie facilities, with the company citing the ongoing […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his cross-border trade war Tuesday as his outright bans on imports of certain Canadian goods took effect, putting the brakes on new shipments of most Canadian-made booze, dairy byproducts and some motorcycles. The bans mark the latest escalation of the trade war as the Trump administration seeks to […]

Industry experts say the latest round of layoffs in Ontario’s steel belt highlights the ripple effects of U.S. tariffs as their impact reverberates through Canada’s manufacturing supply chain. Stelco Holdings Inc. on Monday said it was laying off up to 500 workers at its Hamilton and Lake Erie facilities, with the company citing the ongoing […]

TORONTO — RJ Barrett smiled when he heard a question about his contract extension at Toronto Raptors media day, because he knew it was coming. Barrett, from Mississauga, Ont., had done everything that had been asked of him last season — be more efficient, get more rebounds, play more defence — and even excelled in […]

TORONTO — An Ontario woman sobbed in court Tuesday as she was acquitted in the death of her infant son after more than two decades labelled as his killer. Jennifer Gaskin pulled her mother into a long and tearful hug after Ontario’s top court found that she had been wrongfully convicted of manslaughter in the […]