Ontario News

TORONTO — On a night of missed opportunities, fittingly an errant field-goal try made Chad Kelly's season debut a winning one.

TORONTO — As students prepare to head back to post-secondary campuses for the fall term, tensions sparked by the pro-Palestinian protest encampments that cropped up at several Ontario universities over the summer break are lingering on for some.

Police say they have identified the body of a woman who was found dead near Guelph, Ont., nearly two decades ago and have deemed her death suspicious.

Retail sales dropped in June as Canadians continued to grapple with high interest rates. Statistics Canada said Friday that retail sales fell 0.3 per cent to $65.7 billion that month, led by a drop in sales at new car dealers.

TORONTO — Gord Downie wasn't interested in ever becoming a hologram musician. It's an offer his former Tragically Hip bandmates say he confronted around the time he went public with his terminal brain cancer diagnosis in 2016.

TORONTO — Jaws dropped in the Toronto Blue Jays dugout when Ernie Clement hit an above-the-shoulder-high fastball over the left-field wall for his third homer in three straight games on Thursday.

TORONTO (AP) — Ernie Clement homered for the third time in his last three games and the Toronto Blue Jays used a five-run second inning to build an early lead and beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-3 on Thursday night.

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s two largest railroads are expected to soon start rolling their trains again after the government intervened to end a shutdown that arose from a labor dispute.

TORONTO — A national union leader has refused to step down despite his organization calling for his resignation over an online post that it said violated its policies.

OTTAWA — Health Canada-approved nicotine pouches will only be available behind pharmacy counters starting next week, as part of Health Minister Mark Holland's promised crackdown on the sale of new nicotine products to children.