OTTAWA — An Ottawa judge has decided that “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich will remain released on bail while awaiting trial. Ontario Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips said his decision was based on how well Lich’s surety has supervised her, that she has followed her bail conditions, along with “having had a taste of jail,” […]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT One of the 22 women suing Cleveland Browns star Deshaun Watson broke her silence in a bombshell interview claiming the quarterback shoved his penis into her hand during a massage. Ashley Solis spilled her guts on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Watson – a three-time Pro Bowler – is being sued […]

LONDON — Britain’s two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray said on Wednesday the major would never feel like an ‘exhibition event’ and most people only care who wins after the Grand Slam had its ranking points stripped by the ATP and WTA Tours. Organizers of the All England Lawn Tennis Club took the decision to ban […]

Former Maple Leafs star Nazem Kadri’s wife has taken to social media and is sharing some of the sickening racist messages targeting the forward and his family. And now cops in St. Louis are investigating. The torrent of hatred came following Kadri’s team, the Colorado Avalanche, sinking the St. Louis Blues 6-3 on Monday night. […]

Zero-COVID approach remains government's focus despite damage it has done to world's second-biggest economy

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TORONTO — There was no winning ticket sold in Tuesday’s Lotto Max $70 million draw. Only one of the 15 available $1 million Maxmillion prizes was claimed, by someone from the Atlantic provinces. The jackpot for the next draw on May 27 will remain at an estimated $70 million, with 28 Maxmillion prizes of $1 […]

Toronto police are looking for a woman wanted in a firearm investigation. Krista Williams, 35, of Toronto, is wanted for point firearm, two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of possession of a weapon, mischief under $5,000 and theft under $5,000. She is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached. If […]

The TTC is investigating after fireworks were set off on a bus Monday evening injuring one person. “We are aware of this incident,” said TTC spokesman Stuart Green. “It occurred last night shortly before midnight at Woodbine Station. Someone decided to pop a firecracker inside a ttc bus. @JohnTory #woodbinebeach pic.twitter.com/HftDxvXekt — ☆ UNIT 🇹🇹 […]

Toronto police are looking for help identifying two men wanted in a stabbing investigation that happened Friday afternoon at the TTC’s Broadview subway station. Police say at 3:50 p.m., two men attacked another man and when another man intervened the suspects produced an edged weapon and attacked the Good Samaritan with it. The suspects fled […]

Toronto police have arrested a man for spitting on a little girl and striking her mother. On Sunday at 1:10 a.m., police were called to the area of Yonge St. and Gould St. after a man approached a 10 year-old girl who was with her mother. The man spat at the girl and struck her […]

Peel Regional Police have arrested a man who spit on a Brampton Transit driver and other transit riders in Mississauga. On Wednesday, May 11, at 3:30 p.m., a man was attempting to board a Brampton Transit Bus in the area of Rathburn Rd. W. and Duke of York Blvd. and became irate and was asked […]

A gender discrimination complaint filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission by former Q107 co-host Jennifer Valentyne has led to the suspension of the Derringer In The Morning show. Corus Entertainment suspended the program Tuesday over complaints that came to light in the wake of a recent video posted on Twitter by Valentyne this past […]

Have you heard? Toronto photographer Whitney Heard is getting lots of unpleasant Instagram messages, e-mails and phone calls from people who mistakenly think she’s the sister of Amber Heard, the latter currently embroiled in a nasty defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp. Whitney (Heard) Fernandez recently took the stand in the courtroom battle in her […]

Dear Amy: My sister-in-law recently died of Alzheimer’s, and her celebration of life is coming up. I am an older man. When I was a youth, I had to reside with her and my brother for the summer. My mother was institutionalized due to mental illness; my father had abandoned the family. At the time […]

Sue Dewar cartoon for May 25, 2022.

LIES AND BETRAYAL Re “Some wise words from Singh” (Editorial, May 13): While I agree with the overall gist of your editorial, in that hate speech, violence, and wishing death upon somebody, are never acceptable, I would like to comment on the traitor and liar aspects of your article.  We in Canada, it seems, have […]

Luka Doncic missed a triple-double by one assist and the host Dallas Mavericks combined impressive 3-point-shooting and defensive efforts into a season-saving 48 minutes Tuesday night, preventing a Golden State Warriors celebration with a 119-109 triumph in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals. Reggie Bullock connected on playoffs-career-high-tying six of the Mavericks’ 20 3-pointers. […]

SURREY, B.C. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to cancel plans to attend a fundraising dinner on Tuesday evening after two speakers at the event said protesters hurled racial slurs at the mostly South Asian attendees entering a convention centre in Surrey, B.C. Trudeau did not enter the building and spoke to a crowd […]

SEOUL — North Korea fired three missiles, including one thought to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, after U.S. President Joe Biden left Asia following a trip in which he agreed to new measures to deter the nuclear-armed state. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the three missiles were fired in […]

UVALDE — A teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, the latest bout of gun-fueled mass murder in the United States and the nation’s worst school shooting in nearly a decade. The 18-year-old suspect, who was killed apparently by police, also had shot […]

ST. LOUIS — There are dry spells that can be anticipated, others that can be dreaded and still others that have no explanation at all. Put what happened to the Blue Jays over the past few weeks in the latter category. So with a late-night flight waiting looming and an off day in California enticing […]

Eva Mireles on Tuesday went to a job she seemed to love, teaching fourth grade in the small Texas town of Uvalde, but she never came home, murdered along with 19 pupils and another teacher in the latest mass shooting to plague U.S. schools. Mireles, who was trained in bilingual and special education, worked at […]

Igor Shesterkin made 30 saves and Andrew Copp collected a goal and two assists as the New York Rangers evened their Eastern Conference second-round series with a 4-1 victory over the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday. The Rangers won their fifth straight home game since losing the postseason opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins in triple […]

If Jonathan Osorio received a medal for every time he came up big in a Canadian Championship contest, he could open up a pawn shop. The Brampton native scored his seventh-career Canadian Championship goal on Tuesday night — a tournament record — in the 86th minute to lift Toronto FC to a 2-1 victory over […]

WASHINGTON — Hyundai Motor America will recall 281,000 vehicles in North America over seat-belt pretensioners that could explode and project metal fragments, causing injuries. The recall, which comes after three injury reports, covers some 2019-2022 Accent, 2021-2023 Elantra, and 2021-2022 Elantra hybrid vehicles. In the event of a crash, front driver or passenger-side seat-belt pretensioners […]

WASHINGTON — A military cargo plane carrying the first shipment of infant formula from Europe to help address a critical shortage in the United States landed in Indianapolis on Sunday, and the White House said a second flight had been arranged. A Feb. 17 recall by top baby formula maker Abbott Laboratories and the closing […]

Igor Shesterkin made 43 saves and the host New York Rangers held on for a 3-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday afternoon in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference second-round series. The Rangers pulled within 2-1 in the best-of-seven series and have a chance to even the series Tuesday. Mika Zibanejad scored a […]

Courtney Love has recalled how Johnny Depp once saved her life. The Hole frontwoman insisted she didn’t want to make “judgements” amid the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor’s ongoing defamation case with his ex-wife Amber Heard, who he is suing over an op-ed she wrote in 2018 about being a victim of domestic abuse, while […]

SEOUL — North Korea’s daily fever cases stayed below 200,000 for a second day in a row, state media said on Monday, as Pyongyang remained silent on South Korean and U.S. offers to help fight its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID wave, declared on May 12, has fueled concerns over a lack of vaccines, […]

Joey Votto’s homecoming ended on stellar note for the Etobicoke native that put a damper on a rather promising homestand for the Blue Jays. Votto snapped a 2-2 tie with a solo homer off Yimi Garcia in the eighth inning Sunday at Rogers Centre to help the Reds avoid the sweep in Toronto with a […]

All you could hear in south Ajax on Sunday was the sound of generators and the buzz of chainsaws. “Mother Nature has shown who is the boss,” said Scott Chamberlain, who lives on Seabreeze Rd., in south Ajax. A violent storm rolled through southern Ontario on Saturday, killing at least seven people and leaving a […]

Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Mark Giordano has agreed to a two-year deal worth $1.6 million. The 38-year-old Giordano had 35 points (eight goals, 27 assists) in 75 games while splitting the season with the Seattle Kraken and the Maple Leafs. Toronto acquired him from Seattle in March. Giordano had two goals and 10 assists in […]

“The time has come, a fact’s a fact, it belongs to them, let’s give it back,” sang Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett in the veteran Australian rock band’s 1987 breakout song, Beds Are Burning, about aboriginal land rights. Who could have predicted some 35 years later, we’d all still talking about the same issues and more […]

Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists to help the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the visiting Florida Panthers 5-1 in Game 3 of their Stanley Cup playoffs second-round series on Sunday and move within one win of advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals for a third straight season. Steven Stamkos scored two goals and […]

BARCELONA — McLaren’s Lando Norris revealed after finishing eighth in the Spanish Grand Prix that he had been fighting tonsillitis all week and racing had been a huge struggle. The 22-year-old saw a doctor immediately afterwards for a full health check and was unable to attend his usual media duties. Television images immediately before the […]

India might just have the most literal bakery in the world. When a man ordered a cake via a delivery app called Swiggy recently in Nagpur, he wanted to know whether it contained eggs. He got his answer, but not the way he wanted. It seems the baker didn’t quite understand the request: “Please mention […]

Felix Auger-Aliassime overcame a two-set deficit to defeat Peruvian qualifier Juan Pablo Varillas 2-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday in the first round of the French Open in Paris. Seeded ninth in the tournament, Auger-Aliassime overcame a sluggish start to win all 12 of his first-serve points in the fourth set. The 21-year-old Canadian […]

Queen Elizabeth won’t take the royal salute at Trooping the Colour for the first time this year. The 96-year-old royal – who has been suffering from mobility issues in recent months – historically marks her official birthday on 2 June by greeting her personal troops, the Household Division on Horse Guards Parade, but for next […]

Gyms were closed a long time during the pandemic. People are finally getting back to their former workout habits — and now have the sore muscles to show for it. A recent article on delayed-onset muscle soreness — or DOMS — in the Washington Post helps explain that this type of seemingly simple post-exercise muscle strain […]

St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington will miss the remainder of the Western Conference semifinal series against the Colorado Avalanche due to a lower-body injury, coach Craig Berube announced Sunday. Binnington was injured 6:45 into Saturday’s 5-2 loss after Avalanche forward Nazem Kadri and Blues defenceman Calle Rosen crashed into him. Binnington tried some agility […]

Pete Davidson has left ‘Saturday Night Live.’ The 28-year-old comedian – who has been dating reality TV superstar Kim Kardashian since October 2021 following her split from Kanye West – has been part of the sketch comedy show since 2014 but stepped down on Saturday and paid tribute to his time on the program with […]

A new report says nearly half of Canadian workers have experienced burnout, suggesting more needs to be done to support employees’ mental health and well-being. The World Health Organization deemed burnout an “occupational phenomenon” in May 2019, something that worsened following more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, so it’s no surprise that Canadian […]

The love people have for their pets is undeniable. But is that love for animals greater than the feelings people have for other humans? A recent survey published in Consumer Affairs found that millennials make up the biggest share of pet owners in the United States at 44%, while Gen Xers and GenZers tied with […]

PARIS — Damien Abad, France’s newly appointed minister for Solidarity and the Disabled, on Sunday strongly denied he had raped two women, following accusations published by the Mediapart website in an article based on interviews with the women. The women quoted by the Mediapart story on Saturday said Abad had forced them to have unwanted […]

Mike Tyson’s wife doesn’t want him to take “public planes.” The 55-year-old boxing legend was caught on camera in an altercation with Melvin George Townsend III on board a JetBlue flight last month after his fellow passenger allegedly threw a bottle at him prior to take off, but after speaking to both parties, the San […]

Allow me to let you in on a couple of political secrets. I tell you these secrets as someone who has covered politics day in and day out for more than 20 years now at the federal, provincial and municipal levels. Local all-candidates debates don’t matter, and “fully costed” platforms are a farce. I know, […]

LOS ANGELES — The Crawley family still has the royal touch at the box office. “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” a sequel to the big-screen continuation of the beloved British television show, captured $16 million from 3,815 North American theaters in its domestic debut. Though down slightly from initial projects, those returns mark an encouraging […]

BARCELONA — Formula One world champion Max Verstappen won the Spanish Grand Prix in a Red Bull one-two on Sunday to take over at the top from Ferrari’s luckless Charles Leclerc, who retired with an engine failure while leading. Mexican Sergio Perez finished a dutiful second, 13 seconds behind but with the consolation of a […]

TORONTO — When Camille Mauger went back to work in March 2019, a little over a year after giving birth to her son, she was on about seven to 10 child-care wait lists and had not heard back from any of them. She had started her search when her son was three months old and […]