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Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – Alex Steeves scored his first NHL goal as the Toronto Maple Leafs jumped on the Carolina Hurricanes early and held on late for a 6-3 victory Saturday. Pontus Holmberg scored twice and added an assist for the Leafs (34-20-8), while John Tavares added a goal and an assist. David Kampf also scored in the first period.Auston Matthews and Holmberg potted empty-net goals after Carolina made it 4-3 in the third. Steeves, who leads the American Hockey League with 29 goals, added an assist for a two-point night. Anthony Stolarz made…

By n The Canadian Pressn The Canadian Press Posted February 22, 2025 1:01 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays will wear their City Connect alternate uniforms on 13 occasions during the 2025 season, the team said Saturday. The uniform, first introduced last May, will be worn on Friday night home games, the Blue Jays announced as part of their promotion and event plans for the team’s 81-game home schedule. Related Videos 0:29 Bo Bichette going viral for openly flirting with trade Previous Video Next Video Story continues below…

By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 22, 2025 12:01 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size It’s the final weekend of the provincial election campaign before Ontarians head to the polls next Thursday. Ontario’s main party leaders are fanning out across the province today, with Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford expected to visit Thunder Bay, Iroquois Falls and Timmins. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. NDP Leader Marit Stiles is set to make stops in Toronto and…

More than two dozen television commercials, funded by Ontario taxpayers, were paused during the election period after the province’s auditor general deemed the advertising was “designed to promote the governing party” rather than the province itself. In December, Auditor General Shelley Spence revealed that the province spent a total of $103.5 million on advertising in the previous year, including commercials highlighting Ontario’s economy.Much of the language used in the publicly funded ads mirrored talking points used by Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative Party leading to Spence flagging them as potentially partisan.“It really was just fostering a positive view of…

Ontario’s top civil servant raised concerns about Doug Ford’s visit to Washington D.C. when the Progressive Conservative Party used images from the government-supported trip for partisan commercials and presented a campaign videographer and photographer as government staff, according to a newly-released letter. Story continues below advertisement The controversy surrounds a mid-campaign trip Ford’s Progressive Conservative team took by private plane to Washington D.C. to join Canada’s premiers on a two-day anti-tariff mission which ended with a visit to the White House.It came as the government was in caretaker mode — a long-standing convention that prevents a political party from using…

Provincial police in Brant County say they are on the hunt for three people after a pickup truck was rammed into a hobby shop in Paris, Ont., before thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of RC trucks. Police say the truck was driven into the front window of Paris Junction Hobbies on Feb. 15 at around 3:36 a.m., setting an alarm off which notified owner Dave Henwood.“I was here by 3:50 a.m. because I don’t live very far away and they were already long gone,” Henwood said.He told Global News that his shop offers RC planes, RC trucks,…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 21, 2025 7:18 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police say they are investigating after people shouted racial slurs, someone drew a swastika, and another person exposed themselves during a virtual meeting held by the City of Pickering. Durham Regional Police say the disturbing and hate-motivated disruptions took place at a city Zoom meeting on Feb. 12. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Police say they were made…

The Ontario Liberals have dropped a controversial candidate who was running for the party in a riding east of Toronto after days of pressure to act over a past social media post. On Monday, the Progressive Conservatives unearthed a post from Liberal Oshawa candidate Viresh Bansal referring to the killing of a Sikh leader.“You can thank India for cleaning trash people,” he wrote in a reply to a 2023 post from NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. “Ask your gay friend @JustinTrudeau to do the same.”The message was in response to a post about the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar,…

A month into Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president, it has become clear around the world that America’s approach to foreign policy is undergoing a significant change. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States’ alliance with the West has held steady, but as that evolves, those who study history say the world order we have known for 80 years could be set for a seismic shift.“This is such uncharted territory; none of us have actually lived through anything like this before,” said John Blaxland, a professor of International Security at the Australian National University.“Clearly there…

The widow of a Toronto man robbed of his gold chain and killed during her birthday celebration three years ago says she’s lived with guilt ever since. Mohanie Henry-Khan delivered a heart-wrenching victim impact statement in a Toronto courtroom Friday during the sentencing hearing for Jahvon Waldron.In November, a jury found Waldron guilty of second-degree murder, aggravated assault and robbery with a firearm in the May 7, 2022, shooting death of 36-year-old Peter Khan.That night, Khan, his wife and his friends were out at the Tropical Nights Bar in Scarborough celebrating her 32nd birthday when tragedy unfolded. Khan and his…