This may be what Rielly needs to get his season back on track. While dealing with an injury is never easy, taking a break from the team and playing could get Rielly back on the right track. The Leafs will need Rielly playing at his best if they want any chance of getting back within the playoff circle.
The 2025 draft wasn't the first time the Jays selected Bucknam in the draft. In the 2021 draft, the only Canadian team selected the right-handed pitcher from the Mennonite Educational Institute in Abbotsford, British Columbia. However, Bucknam elected to honour his commitment to Louisiana State University. Aside from pitching a summer in the MLB Draft League, Bucknam didn't pitch all that much in 2022. Instead, he made his college debut with LSU in 2023.
More than a year after a deadly home invasion in Mississauga, Peel police say seven people have been arrested, and three have been charged with murder. The arrests are the result of a "complex and lengthy" homicide investigation into the death of Ruo Zhou Wei, 55, police said in a news release Monday. Wei was shot inside his home near Central Parkway W. and Confederation Parkway just before 4 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2024. He later died in hospital.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow's final budget before the 2026 municipal election takes place keeps the modest 2.2 per cent property tax increase proposed in the city's initial draft of the document, while spending nearly $1.5 billion on both the Toronto Transit Commission and the city's police service. Chow's budget was uploaded to the city's website Sunday evening following feedback from the budget committee, who heard from city departments and residents throughout the month.
I think it's the Blue Jays, with what they have done (this offseason) bringing in (Kazuma) Okamoto was great, but they matched up incredibly well against the Dodgers. You look at them in the World Series and statistically they were the better team, even though they couldn't pull it off in Game 7.
Speed is definitely a major component of his game as Cook has earned a scouting scale of 80 for his speed grade ahead of the 2025 MLB Draft. The Blue Jays would select the promising outfield prospect in the third round that year, No. 81 overall. But more importantly, he wants to show Toronto that his game isn't just about speed and that he could be a complete player. As per The Athletic, Cook would love to be "more like Byron Buxton" when he fully develops and matures, but that of course is still quite a ways away.
Provincial police say a 14-year-old is dead following a two-vehicle collision in Oxford County, Ont., Saturday. In a news release Saturday, Ontario Provincial Police said officers responded to reports of a collision between a snowmobile and a pickup truck in the area of Road 92 and 23rd Line in the Zorra township shortly after 10:30 a.m. The 14-year-old snowmobile operator was transported to hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries, the OPP said.
Law separated the teams into different Tiers, and then numbered them 1-30. The Blue Jays ranked in Tier 6, the second lowest, and 25th overall. The other teams in Tier 6 were Miami Marlins (No. 22) followed by Colorado Rockies, West Sacramento Athletics, Toronto and Texas Rangers. Law wrote, "In fairness, they nearly won the World Series, and traded a lot of prospects to get there, sending nearly all of their top pitching prospects after Trey Yesavage to other clubs to bolster their roster for the stretch run."
On Jan. 13, the council's panel had said it accepted the majority of allegations made in a complaint to the council against Currie and he was found to have engaged in judicial misconduct. "Since Justice Currie is no longer a judge of that court, the Council no longer has jurisdiction over the complaint about his conduct. As a result, the hearing on the appropriate disposition of the complaint will not proceed," the council says on its website.
An Ontario man who was a member of a neo-Nazi group and has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges told a Toronto judge Friday that he was a "complete monster at times," but has turned over a new leaf since his arrest in 2023. Matthew Althorpe said he regrets his past actions and extremist beliefs, as his lawyer Robb MacDonald asked Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly to consider a sentence of 12 to 14 years less than the 20 years sought by Crown prosecutors.
A female has died in hospital after she was struck by a transport truck in a Brampton intersection on Thursday evening, police say. The collision happened at Queen Street W. and McLaughlin Road, Peel Regional Police said in a social media post. Officers were called to the scene at about 5:50 p.m. Peel paramedics took the female to hospital in life-threatening condition, where she was pronounced dead.
In what can only be another cruel twist of fate for the Toronto Maple Leafs this season, a castaway put on one heck of a performance, stopping the NHL's best team, the Colorado Avalanche. On Wednesday night, former Maple Leafs PTO invitee James Reimer stymied the Colorado Avalanche en route to a 5-2 win. Reimer, now a member of the Ottawa Senators, stopped 16 shots in what was arguably one of the worst showings for the Avalanche this season.
McCann has been a steady performer throughout his NHL career so far, especially since the Kraken joined the league. In the past four seasons, he has recorded at least 50 points, solidifying himself as a reliable player on the scoresheet for them. McCann has scored at least 20 goals in the past four seasons, which is a factor in why he is currently the Kraken's franchise all-time goal leader (132).
It is theoretically possible, thanks to quantum tunnelling, that a solid be permeated at any moment. Most things are just empty space, after all. Particles are waves, are uncertain, could align themselves in just the right way at just the right moment, for your hand to pass through a table when you press down upon it. Nothing is truly solid. Certainty doesn't exist. Thanks Heisenberg, Schrodinger, et al! It's possible that even the warmest, coziest, safest blanket can vanish if fate aligns.
However, his encounter with blister issues on his pitching hand ultimately derailed a once-promising MLB career as his effectiveness progressively waned in the subsequent seasons. From 2017 onwards, Sanchez amassed a dismal 5.29 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, giving up 216 earned runs on 403 hits in 367.2 innings pitched over 79 games played. That included stops with the Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals and Minnesota Twins.
Police are looking for an inmate who escaped from a Toronto jail by allegedly impersonating another inmate who was to be released. Steven Alexander Guzman Marroquin, 32, of Toronto, allegedly escaped from the Toronto South Detention Centre in the area of Horner and Kipling Avenues on Monday just before noon, police said in a news release Tuesday. According to police, Marroquin impersonated another inmate who was due to be released from custody.
According to a statement issued by her lawyer, Neha Chugh, defence lawyer Sudine Riley finished a trial late on Friday and was catching up on legal work in an interview room when uniformed officers challenged her presence in that room. In her statement, Chugh said police, who were working as security, slammed Riley's head on the desk and put their knees on her back and neck, and spoke to her with rage, disrespect, and contempt.
With Seranthony Dominguez now off the market (and Bo Bichette long gone), Isiah Kiner-Falefa is arguably the best Toronto Blue Jays' player from the 2025 roster who remains lingering in free agency. Kiner-Falefa is among the most versatile utility players in the league, and now that players like Bichette, Jorge Polanco, Ha-Seong Kim, and Alex Bregman have all signed, he's one the best infielders still available.
A man is dead after he was shot several times in a commercial plaza in Vaughan on Monday in what police are calling a targeted incident. The shooting happened in the area of Weston Road and Colossus Drive, according to York Regional Police. Emergency personnel were called to the scene, which was outside a business, shortly after 1 p.m. York Region Paramedics said they took the man to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The other two free agents that stepped on the mound for the Jays in 2025 are Chad Green and Nick Sandlin. Green threw just 43.2 innings in 2025, giving up 14 home runs, the third-most for any reliever in baseball (and one behind Jeff Hoffman). Sandlin, acquired alongside Andrés Giménez, spent a large portion of the 2025 season injured and was outrighted after the end of the season, electing free agency.
The rumor mill continues to grind as the season hurtles towards the Olympic break. The prevailing chatter has focused on Seattle Kraken center Shane Wright. The former fourth-overall pick from the 2022 NHL Draft is reportedly on the trade block, as The Fourth Period's David Pagnotta first reported. This situation could provide an opportunity for the Maple Leafs to continue their roster turnover.
