Weekend need-to-know: Celebrate Family Day with a wide variety of events
Family Day is this weekend and there will be lots of activities to celebrate with your family. There are no TTC or GO closures this weekend.
From dumped boats to an abandoned dock, City addressing issues near Toronto’s Cherry Beach
On Unwin Avenue — a road many use to access the beach — two large abandoned boats were tossed on the side of the road like garbage and left there for months. One of them, a sailboat, had several ...
Union representing 30,000 Toronto city workers edges toward strike after no board request
The sectors include public health, planning, City Hall operations, employment and social services, ambulance dispatch, child care, and 311.
Europe quietly works on a plan to send troops to Ukraine for post-war security
Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been quietly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to help enforce any future peace ...
Treasury watchdog begins audit of Musk DOGE team’s access to federal government’s payment system
The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government’s payment system, after Democratic senators raised ...
Statistics Canada reports December manufacturing sales up 0.3 per cent
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose for a third straight month as they increased 0.3 per cent to $71.4 billion in December. The agency says the increase came as 12 of 21 ...
TIFF CEO worried about ‘nationalistic’ shift in TV, film amid Canada-US trade tension
The CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival is warning against an overly nationalistic approach to screen content in Canada, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs have led some to ...
Toronto FC back in the red and loving it with unveiling of new home jersey
Toronto FC unveiled its new home kit Friday, bringing the Major League Soccer team back into the red. The club’s last home jersey, unveiled in February 2023, was a combination of red, black and grey — ...
Very cold weather is coming. US about to get 10th and chilliest polar vortex this winter
The coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated polar vortex invasions, meteorologists warn. And it will stay frozen there all ...
Speed dating can offer a safe space to find love, relief from ‘swipe fatigue’
When Joseph David decided to re-enter the dating scene, it wasn’t something he was used to. The divorced father of two met his former wife when online dating was limited to a handful of matchmaking ...
Annexing Canada? At Niagara Falls, Trump’s idea gets eye rolls but not support
At Niagara Falls, the iconic honeymoon and tourist destination on the U.S.-Canadian border, visitors from both countries took in President Donald Trump’s unsolicited suggestion that the U.S. annex its ...
Hostages freed from Gaza painfully piece together a changed world
After 484 days of captivity in Gaza, Keith Siegel had many questions. Was his 97-year-old mother still alive? Which of his neighbors was killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack? Why did it take so long ...