York Region

TORONTO — It wasn’t just that the Toronto Blue Jays lost badly. The timing was bad too. Alejandro Kirk’s RBI single was all the offence Toronto could muster in a 10-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday. The defeat put the Blue Jays two games back of Cleveland for the third and final wild-card […]

The boom in artificial intelligence has put Ontario municipalities on the front lines of a major debate over how to regulate a new wave of large, energy-hungry data centres. Several municipalities have voted in recent months on temporary data centre moratoriums while they study possible guardrails, and at least one has amended its bylaws to […]

Mississauga city council is set to vote today on a one-year data centre moratorium. The city is the latest in Ontario to consider a pause as it studies what guardrails it could place on energy-intensive data centres fuelling the artificial intelligence boom. The proposed citywide moratorium would apply to data centres with energy demands over […]

TORONTO — Spencer Torkelson smashed a three-run homer as part of a four-run inning and the Detroit Tigers routed the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1 on Tuesday. Max Clark had a one-run double earlier in the fourth inning as Detroit (72-79) won its sixth straight. Riley Greene and John Peck had RBI singles in the fifth […]

TORONTO — Damonte Coxie will never complain about all of the extra attention he’s attracting this season from CFL defences. That’s what comes with being one of the CFL’s top receivers, something Coxie had hoped to achieve since joining the Toronto Argonauts in 2022. “Pressure is not really a thing because this is what you […]

TORONTO — Aidan Gomez, CEO of Canadian AI company Cohere, says a “small group of companies in Silicon Valley” shouldn’t be left in charge of ensuring AI is safe. AI industry leaders have been warning about the dangers of the technology since an Anthropic researcher who quit last week said people in the industry fear […]

TORONTO — When Angela Zhu was newly pregnant, she knew that finding a daycare spot in Toronto would be challenging so she and her husband joined 40 different waitlists, thinking surely that would be sufficient. It wasn’t. “My friend joked to me, ‘As soon as you get the positive pregnancy test, don’t even wait to […]

GUELPH — Police in Guelph allege a man stole thousands of dollars by setting up “cash traps” at automated banking machines across the city that diverted the money customers were trying to withdraw. Police say they were contacted in late June by an ATM technician who had been dealing with several reports of cash machines […]

TORONTO — The date has been set for a coroner’s inquest into the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a Toronto woman who fell from a highrise balcony while police were in her home more than six years ago. The inquest will begin on Oct. 13, with Dr. David Cameron as the presiding officer, and is expected […]

Police have identified a 17-year-old Toronto boy as the victim of a Monday afternoon shooting. Toronto police say officers responded to a shooting near Jane Street and Finch Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Police say 17-year-old Cashie Auguste had been shot and was rushed to hospital. They say he was pronounced dead shortly after. Police have […]