York Region

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. — U Sports will allow incoming student-athletes who have played professional hockey to participate immediately in men’s hockey without a waiting period. The change starts with the 2025-26 season, U Sports announced Tuesday. The previous rule required former pro players to wait 365 days before becoming eligible to play university men’s hockey. […]

TORONTO — It was a hot debate in the Toronto Raptors’ locker-room. Was that Jamal Shead’s first dunk of the season? The rookie guard cleared the Raptors bench as they rushed to congratulate his rim-rattler in Toronto’s 119-104 win over the Washington Wizards on Monday. But once the game was over, the team’s leaders were […]

WASHINGTON — Ontario has agreed to suspend a surcharge on electricity exports to the United States after President Donald Trump escalated his trade war Tuesday by vowing to double threatened tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports. Trump said 50 per cent tariffs would be placed on Canadian steel and aluminum on Wednesday in response […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada, a retaliation that prompted the provincial government of Ontario to back down on its planned surcharges on electricity sold to the United States. Tuesday’s escalation and retreat in the ongoing […]

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will suspend its surcharge on electricity exports to the U.S. and he will travel to Washington, D.C., for trade negotiations. More coming. The Canadian Press

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say a man has been taken into custody after a woman was fatally stabbed in Brampton, Ont. Peel regional police say officers were called to an apartment building in the area of Kennedy Road South and Glidden Road just after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. They say officers arrived at the scene […]

WASHINGTON — Prime minister-designate Mark Carney says he will keep Canadian retaliatory tariffs in place until “Americans show us respect” and commit to free trade again. Carney is reacting after U.S. President Donald Trump moved today to double tariffs coming into effect Wednesday on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50 per cent. Trump’s latest tariff […]

Provincial police say they’ve charged two people from Mississauga, Ont., after seizing more than 4,000 illegal cannabis plants in the Niagara region. Police say officers responded to a location on Highway 3 in Wainfleet on Feb. 26, after a referral from Health Canada inspectors who said that cannabis was being illegally grown. They say officers […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Canada will pay a “financial price” after vowing Tuesday to double the tariff on Canadian steel and aluminum imports in response to Ontario’s surcharge on electricity exports to the United States. “They will pay a financial price for this so big that it will be read about in […]

OTTAWA — The trade war between the U.S. and Canada took another turn Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to double the tariff on steel and aluminum imports coming from Canada in response to Ontario’s surcharge on electricity exports. Trump said 50 per cent tariffs will be placed on Canadian steel and aluminum starting […]