York Region

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index closed up Wednesday amid gains in the industrial and base metal sectors, while U.S. stock markets also inched higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 5.42 points at 21,793.90. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 15.64 points at 39,127.80. The S&P 500 index was up […]

TORONTO — Olympic veterans Amy Millar and Mario Deslauriers were named to Canada’s equestrian jumping team for this summer’s Paris Games. Millar, the daughter of legendary show jumper Ian Millar, and Deslauriers were part of the team that qualified Canada for the event with a silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, […]

Police say billionaire businessman Frank Stronach is facing eight new charges after investigators identified additional victims of alleged sexual assaults. Peel Regional Police say the 91-year-old was arrested again today and charged with six counts of sexual assault, one count of attempted rape and one count of indecent assault on a female. They did not […]

TORONTO — Months after becoming the first-ever Pan Am Games gold medallist in women’s park, 14-year-old Fay De Fazio Ebert has been named to Canada’s skateboard team for the Paris Olympics. The roster, announced Wednesday by Canada Skateboard and the Canadian Olympic Committee, also includes Miles Berger of Kamloops, B.C., Ryan Decenzo of Delta, B.C., […]

ESSEX, ONTARIO, CANADA — Police confirmed Wednesday that four people found dead in a rural home in southwestern Ontario last week were members of the same family. The four have been identified as 41-year-old Carly Walsh, 42-year-old Steven Walsh, 13-year-old Madison Walsh and eight-year-old Hunter Walsh. Ontario Provincial Police said they went to a home […]

OTTAWA — Several federal cabinet ministers say they are all ears to what disgruntled voters are saying in the aftermath of a Toronto byelection defeat in what was considered a safe Liberal riding. Although the ministers expressed openness to hearing out Canadians turned off by the Liberals and Justin Trudeau, none could say how their […]

TORONTO — Ray St. Germain, the singer-songwriter and television personality nicknamed “Winnipeg’s Elvis” for his uncanny vocal likeness to the king of rock ‘n’ roll, has died. The Manitoba Métis Federation confirmed his death while his family said on social media that the 83-year-old died of Parkinson’s disease at a local care centre on Tuesday. […]

TORONTO — The Canadian Elite Basketball League is expanding its regular season to a 24-game format starting in 2025. That will increase the number of total regular-season games from 100 to 120, the league said Wednesday in a release. To accommodate the extra games, the 2025 season will start about a week earlier in early […]

OTTAWA — Payments Canada says it has named Susan Hawkins as president and CEO of the organization as it works to finish a long-delayed upgrade to its financial system. The organization is years behind schedule on getting what’s known as the Real-Time Rail in place, which would allow near-instant payments clearing 24 hours a day, […]

OTTAWA — Lawyers are trying to get in touch with hundreds of thousands of people who are owed money through a class-action lawsuit against Veterans Affairs. The suit was launched after the Veterans Ombudsman found the government had been improperly calculating the disability pensions and benefits of some clients starting in 2003. The government reached […]