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Tariff fight takes centre stage as Ontario election campaign kicks off
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford pitched himself Wednesday as the best steward of the economy in the face of looming tariffs, but the other party leaders say his record from the last ...
Jan 29, 2025
Wrestler Chris Jericho embraces 'scream king' status with slasher 'Dark Match'
From playing a washed-up rock star in 2010's "MacGruber" to a gruff psychiatric hospital orderly in last year's "Terrifier 3," pro wrestler Chris Jericho has built quite an eclectic acting resume. Yet...
Jan 29, 2025
Slimmed-down World Cup training facility to be one pitch, field house in Toronto
TORONTO - The 2026 World Cup will have just one official training facility in Toronto, consisting of a new pitch and field house at Centennial Park in Etobicoke. Work has already started on the slimme...
Jan 29, 2025
Teen striker Kaylee Hunter the latest to join Toronto entry in Northern Super League
TORONTO - The hits keep coming for teenage striker Kaylee Hunter. Last year the Calgary native - then 16 - was the youngest player invited to a Canadian under-20 camp in Germany. At club level, she wa...
Jan 29, 2025
In the news today: Joly in Washington, mosque attack anniversary, Ontario election
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Joly to meet with U.S. counterpart Rubio Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., tod...
Jan 29, 2025
BoC expected to lower interest rates today, as forecasts predict quarter-point cut
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is set to make its first interest rate announcement of the year this morning. Forecasters are widely expecting a quarter-percentage-point cut. That would bring the Bank of ...
Jan 29, 2025
'Duty to remember:' Events to mark eighth anniversary of Quebec City mosque attack
MONTREAL - Only one bullet hole remains in the wall of the Centre culturel islamique de Qubec, eight years after a gunman stormed into the mosque and killed six Muslim men who had come to pray. While ...
Jan 29, 2025
Joly to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio as tariff threat looms
WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., today to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as Canada faces the threat of devastating tariffs landing as early...
Jan 29, 2025
Privy Council had diplomats urge Denmark to expedite Carolyn Bennett's ambassadorship
OTTAWA - Bureaucrats working for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had diplomats push Denmark to speed up the appointment of former cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett as ambassador to that country - a chang...
Jan 29, 2025
Flames burned by costly miscues against Capitals
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames battled toe-to-toe with the NHL's No. 1 team on Tuesday, but a rare gaffe by veteran forward Blake Coleman cost them. Eighteen seconds after Coleman's second-period penalt...
Jan 28, 2025