To continue his football analogy, Hodgson told host Rosemary Barton he would "describe these five projects as being down in the red zone" the area of a football field close to the goal line. "The Major Projects Office is there to help make sure each of these proponents punches the ball into the end zone, scores a touchdown and builds for Canada."
Expansive attacking rugby? Tick. Pick and go tries? Tick. Impressive defence and holding up tries? Tick. This Canada performance underlined why they are among the tournament favourites and had everything to set-up a tasty semi-final against the defending champions, New Zealand. The wing Alysha Corrigan was a bright spark, scoring twice, as was Karin Paquin while the dependable Sophie de Goede had another solid outing for the side she used to skipper.
WARNING: This story references child sexual assault. Ontario corrections officials have denied a request to transfer registered child sex offender Daniel Senecal to a women's jail as the 25-year-old awaits a bail hearing in another case, this one involving an attack on a girl in Welland. Senecal was released earlier this year after serving time for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old in the Niagara Region city. The latest charges involve a three-year-old over the Labour Day weekend.
Before he took this image, one cloudy afternoon in downtown Guelph, Chavali had been tracking this particular flock of pigeons for several weeks. I was in search of the natural patterns of birds, and I'd seen this flock flying in circles around the buildings near a train station at the same time each day. They moved in a tight, repeated loop, and on this day the light was soft and just right to capture their movement clearly, he says.
In May, Ford gave Ontario Power Generation the green light to start construction on the first of four small modular reactors next door to the Darlington station in Clarington, Ont., east of Toronto. The project is called the Darlington New Nuclear Project. 'With President Trump taking direct aim at Canada's economy, it's never been more important to build and build fast,' Ford said in a statement on Thursday 'Shovels are already in the ground building the first small modular nuclear reactors in the G7 at Darlington. Ontario welcomes the federal government's support and expects that the same streamlined federal approvals will be extended to the new large-scale nuclear facilities Ontario is building.'
A University of Toronto professor has been placed on leave after making a controversial comment online in the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week. According to screenshots, Ruth Marshall, an associate professor of religious studies and political science, posted on her now-private X account, formerly Twitter, that "shooting is honestly too good for so many of you fascist c--ts." The tweet was posted at 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, about an hour after U.S. President Donald Trump shared on social media that Kirk had died.
An organization that bills itself as Canada's oldest HIV service agency says it will close next year, in part due to groundbreaking medical advances that have reduced the need for its services. AIDS Committee of Toronto says plummeting demand coincided with financial challenges and broader changes in the health-care system, leading to the decision to close after 42 years. ACT was founded in 1983 when AIDS was marked by stigma, long-term illness and often death.
At the corner of High Park Avenue and Annette Street in Toronto, a church slated to be transformed into condominiums has been sitting partially complete for several years. Construction on the 70-unit condo project began in 2019, but there has been no progress since 2023. "We all knew that something was wrong because you'd just drive by and no one's working, right? Nothing's happening," said Phil Earnshaw, who paid a $280,000 deposit in 2018 for a two-bedroom unit.
USA vs. Canada isn't only hockey's greatest rivalry, but one of the most competitive and nastiest in all of sports. It's a rivalry that permeates down into the world junior level and bubbles up to the NHL like lava. Please recall the 4 Nations Face-Off last February, where the first meeting between the nations started with three fights in nine seconds and the second meeting ended with a dramatic overtime win for Canada to claim the championship.
The policy is not in response to a specific incident and it will only be in place for the Halloween Haunt, said spokesperson Grace Peacock via email. "A safe, family-friendly atmosphere is the type of experience our guests expect and deserve at Canada's Wonderland," Peacock said. "We're introducing this policy as a best practice in the industry, after seeing incidents of unruly and inappropriate behavior over the years at amusement parks and major entertainment venues."
The mayor of Barrie, Ont., has declared a state of emergency in response to homeless encampments and what he described as an increase in "lawlessness" in the city. "Barrie residents have had enough," Alex Nuttall said in a news release on Tuesday morning. "Since Day 1, I have been clear that encampments are not acceptable in the City of Barrie. The people who live in tents could turn to resources available," he said.
Left without a headstone amid lingering fears of retribution from Moscow, the gravesite of Igor Gouzenko and his wife Svetlana has been identified since 2002 by a large Muskoka rock bearing a plaque with their names and the phrase "We chose freedom for mankind." A small gathering at the grave this weekend marked 80 years since Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Union, smuggling 109 secret documents in his shirt out of the Ottawa embassy and delivering them to the offices of the Ottawa Journal newspaper.
The call came around 3 a.m. "Your mum had a stroke," I heard my cousin in India say. I crumpled to the floor. As I sat sobbing, he explained that she was in surgery and still critical. My mind swam with disbelief. Less than 24 hours ago, I had spoken to her over video chat. She'd been in high spirits singing Old MacDonald to her new grandson our daily morning ritual since his birth that April.
Serenity Brown, 21, of Toronto, was pronounced dead in hospital, police said in a news release. Police were called to the area of Glenlake and High Park avenues shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, When officers arrived, they found Brown in the vehicle. Toronto paramedics took her to hospital, where she died from her injuries. Police have not released the cause of death. She is the city's 30th homicide victim of the year.
A simple question lies behind Patrick de Kruyff's Tax Court of Canada victory last month over the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA): Who on earth would suggest taking Toronto's Don Valley Parkway at rush hour? An auditor in Vancouver, that's who. The Toronto-based financial advisor reluctantly uses the words "smoking gun" when describing the key discovery that helped him win a five-year battle to get the CRA to accept his application to deduct relocation expenses after he moved to live closer to work in 2020.
I thought, okay, I'm going to go through the doors of Princess Margaret with all my heart. I remember that day so well. And I walked through the doors and a feeling of comfort overcame me. And I started thinking, you know what, I'm going to look at this place as my temple of healing. If you can't change the situation, change your mind. I've always believed that.
In a news release issued Friday, police said the teen is facing charges including attempted murder and discharging a firearm in a reckless manner linked to the shooting outside York Memorial Collegiate Institute on Wednesday. The incident happened at 11:54 a.m. that day, in the Keele Street and Donald Avenue area. Investigators say that two groups of people exchanged gunfire across Keele Street in front of the school. Investigators have previously said they believe the incident was targeted.
"This is ridiculous," he told CBC Toronto. "Sending [an email] before a long weekend when no one can respond to it or get answers to it or anything like that and knowing full well that Tuesday was the first day of school it was terrible timing, absolutely terrible."
A pedestrian has died after being hit by a vehicle in a Scarborough intersection on Friday evening, Toronto police said. The incident happened at around 5 p.m. at Steeles Avenue E. and Midland Avenue, police said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Police said an adult victim died at the scene and that the driver of the vehicle remained on scene when officers arrived.
Canada's financial intelligence agency has fined the Canadian National Exhibition Casino $199,000 for failure to comply with money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment and documentation rules. The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) announced the penalties for two administrative violations by the CNE Casino in a public notice on its website on Thursday. The penalties were imposed after the CNE Casino indicated staff would report any high-risk transactions to an appointed compliance officer, the agency said.
A years-long protest by tenants at Thorncliffe Park has come to an end after "an amicable agreement" was reached with the private landlord, Starlight Investments. The agreement comes after tenants at 71, 75 and 79 Thorncliffe Park Dr. began protesting above-guideline rent increases, varying from 4.94 per cent to 5.5 per cent, in 2023. Over the course of their protest, residents also spoke out about the disrepair of their units since landlords Starlight Investments and Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) took over in 2019.
The Liberals have to answer, 'Why is it that they are shutting our own youth out of jobs and replacing them with low-wage, temporary foreign workers from poor countries who are ultimately being exploited,'
Police responded to reports of a shooting at Keele Street and Donald Avenue just before noon on Wednesday, said Toronto Police on social media. York Memorial Collegiate Institute, located at the same intersection, is currently under lockdown. Nearby schools Charles E Webster Public School, Silverthorn Community School and Keelesdale Junior Public School are on hold and secure for the time being, said the Toronto District School Board on social media.
York Regional Police say the home invasion was targeted, but they have released few details about the incident and have not confirmed that there was a shooting. In a news release on Sunday, police said they responded to a residence in the area of Andreeta Drive and Barons Street for a report of a home invasion shortly before 1 a.m. on Sunday. When officers arrived, police said they found a man suffering from trauma to his body. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
We face unprecedented attacks, including Trump['s] tariffs, threats of annexation and a federal government that won't allow workers to bargain a fair deal," Geordie Dent, a communications and data coordinator with the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, said at the parade.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has identified 12 cases where grocers engaged in "maple washing," a practice where companies use Canadian branding, like the maple leaf, to promote imported food products. The violations stemmed from complaints filed with the CFIA between February and May, and all but one involved national grocery chains, the agency told CBC News in an email. The CFIA can impose fines of up to $15,000 per offence.
Most of the counter-tariffs Ottawa slapped on U.S. goods earlier this year have now been removed, with a few exceptions. Canada placed duties on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods in response to American tariffs on various Canadian goods. Those tariffs are gone as of Monday, though some levies remain on non-CUSMA-compliant goods such as tariffs on steel and aluminum products to counter U.S. tariffs targeting those industries.
