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TORONTO — The Ontario government tabled a budget Tuesday that forecast a ballooning deficit, investments in the home and community care sector, and support for a first-of-its-kind medical school. Here are the highlights:  BALLOONING DEFICIT Ontario is projecting a deficit of $9.8 billion in the coming fiscal year, almost double what was projected in its […]

TORONTO — Ontario is delaying its path to balance as lethargic economic growth drags the province’s books further into the red, with a $9.8-billion budget deficit projected for the coming fiscal year. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy is acknowledging the challenging economic times, saying life has rarely been this expensive, but the budget he is presenting […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors were still largely in the dark a day after it was confirmed that the NBA was investigating backup centre Jontay Porter for allegedly fixing games. “I was just praying for him,” said small forward Bruce Brown on Tuesday after Raptors practice. “Obviously, you don’t want to see somebody go through […]

TORONTO — The wife of a man accused of running over a Toronto police constable told the officer who pulled her out of the car at gunpoint that she didn’t know they were police, court heard Tuesday. Aaida Shaikh, who was eight months pregnant at the time, was crying and appeared scared when she was […]

Toronto police say they are not investigating Raptors backup centre Jontay Porter, who is the subject of an NBA gambling probe. The league is looking into whether Porter purposely left two games early to impact prop bets involving him. Both games where Porter allegedly fixed the prop bets took place in Toronto. Although online gambling […]

It’s spring, but a winter-like heavy snowfall is expected in Thunder Bay, Ont., and vast areas across northern Ontario on the second day of a three-day storm system rolling through the region. Environment Canada says the region has been forecast to see roughly 25 to 45 centimetres of snow between Sunday and Wednesday evening. The […]

TORONTO — Ten programmers say they quit the Hot Docs film festival en masse as a result of what they describe as a toxic workplace. In a joint statement released the day the documentary fest announced its 2024 lineup, they say the organization failed to respect protocol and dismissed or diminished team members’ voices. They […]

A major bridge that collapsed in Baltimore after getting hit by a ship is named for Francis Scott Key, who turned a wartime experience in the early 19th century into the poem that became the national anthem of the United States. Key was a prominent attorney in the region during the first half of the […]

TORONTO — Jurors are hearing a Toronto police officer punched the man accused of running over his colleague in the face during arrest. Const. Scharnil Pais was one of the officers at the scene when Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup was hit by a vehicle in an underground parking garage at Toronto City Hall shortly after […]

TORONTO — Roughly 200,000 small businesses took on new debt to refinance their Canada Emergency Business Account loans to access the forgivable portion of the loan, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. CFIB president Dan Kelly says many businesses that had to borrow to repay their CEBA loans are facing high interest rates and […]