York Region

OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency says a partial systems outage is impacting airports and that it is working to fix the issue. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — The Canadian men’s soccer team will play a friendly match against Panama at Toronto’s BMO Field during the upcoming FIFA window. Canada Soccer announced the Oct. 15 match in a release on Tuesday. The Canadians are coming off an impressive fourth-place finish at the 2024 Copa America in which they were narrowly defeated […]

TORONTO — A new study finds most Canadians have spotted deepfakes online and almost a quarter encounter them weekly. The research from Toronto Metropolitan University public policy organization The Dais reveals 60 per cent of people in the country have seen deepfakes. Deepfakes are digitally-manipulated images or videos depicting scenes that have not happened. The […]

OTTAWA — Senior public servants have been called to a House of Commons committee to explain the government’s decision to buy a $9-million condo for the consul general in New York. Conservative MP Michael Barrett called the residence “excessive” and “opulent,” and questioned why the foreign affairs minister was not made aware of the purchase. […]

TORONTO — The chief executive of SkipTheDishes says hundreds of Canadian employees are being laid off by the food delivery service and its parent company. Paul Burns says 100 Canada-based workers will depart SkipTheDishes. Some 700 staff also in Canada who work for its owner Just Eat Takeaway.com will also lose their jobs. Burns announced […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate was 2.5 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.1 per cent (2.3) — Prince Edward Island: 2.0 per cent (3.4) — Nova Scotia: 2.3 per cent (3.5) — New Brunswick: 2.9 per cent (2.8) […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate was 2.5 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets): — St. John’s, N.L.: 2.3 per cent (2.8) — Charlottetown-Summerside: 2.3 per […]

TORONTO — Nearly 70 per cent of Canadian small businesses say they’ve experienced disruptions in some form, including taking a financial hit, from construction projects within the last five years, a new report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says. The most frequent disruptions that local construction causes are heavy traffic in the area, […]

OTTAWA — The demands of protecting parliamentarians and other public figures are placing “significant strain” on RCMP personnel and taking resources from other federal policing priorities, warns an internal briefing note. The national police force is “forced to walk a delicate balance” in providing protective services in response to threats flagged by parliamentarians, says the […]

TORONTO (AP) — Spencer Steer hit a tiebreaking RBI double in Cincinnati’s four-run sixth inning, and the Reds beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 on Monday night to stop a three-game slide. TJ Friedl hit his 10th homer and finished with three hits for Cincinnati in the opener of a seven-game trip. Ty France had […]