Auston Matthews scored the winner in the third period and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Monday to even their first-round playoff series 1-1. The star centre took a lob pass from Max Domi and moved in alone on Linus Ullmark before making a move to the forehand with 7:54 left in regulation time to give the Leafs their first lead against the Bruins in the last six games — including four in the regular season. The goal was the first for Matthews...
Federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says he has appointed an Industrial Inquiry Commission to dig deeper into the underlying causes of B.C.'s port strike last summer. The federal government says in a statement the port strike was a single labour dispute that caused a major "economic disruption" as longshore workers walked picket lines for just under two weeks last July. O'Regan says the commission will be headed by veteran mediator Vince Ready, who was tapped during the strike to...
The gap between the highest earners and lowest income groups last year was at its widest since 2015 as the wealthiest households saw income grow much faster than lower-income Canadians. Higher interest rates are pushing middle- and lower-income households to spend more conservatively, which means consumer spending by the top earners will play a critical role in keeping the broader economy going. As the national household net worth rebounded to 4.5 per cent last year, from a 6.5 per cent...
Ontario’s opposition leaders are warning Premier Doug Ford against politicizing the judicial system after a man whose bail he once publicly question was acquitted. Umar Zameer was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Toronto Police Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup on Sunday following a five-week trial. A jury heard that he was with his pregnant wife and young son in a parking garage when plainclothes officers rushed the vehicle while investigating a stabbing he was not...
Ontario Provincial Police say several students have been taken to hospital after a school bus and a transport truck collided on a highway. Police say in a news release that the crash happened Monday afternoon after 4 p.m. on Route 400 in Russell Township, southeast of Ottawa, where the highway meets MacDonald Rd. In addition to the driver, police say three students were on the bus at the time, and all were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver and lone occupant...
There’s a new mobile dental-care program making the rounds in Toronto. Toronto Public Health has two vans with built-in dental clinics that are travelling around the city to provide care to seniors in 10 long-term care homes operated by the city. “Everything is on site, so it’s accessible, it’s timely and it’s free,” Dr. Karen Lee, a dentist with the mobile team, told CTV News Toronto Monday following an announcement about the program. The vans are equipped to handle patients using...
The eastbound lanes of Highway 401 in Whitby were closed for several hours on Monday evening due to a crash involving a tractor-trailer. Traffic was forced off the highway at Lake Ridge Road as emergency crews respond to the collision at Brock Street. Images from the scene appear to show a pickup truck wedged underneath the tractor-trailer. The cause of the crash is unclear at this time. The highway fully reopened around 9:30 p.m.
Toronto’s police chief has asked that Ontario Provincial Police conduct an “independent review” after the judge in the Umar Zameer trial raised concerns about the reliability of officer testimony. Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy previously told jurors that the police officers’ testimony that was at the centre of the case against Zameer didn’t match the physical evidence and advised them to watch out for possible collusion. Zameer was ultimately found not guilty of first-degree murder...
A man has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing that happened on a subway train. Police say that they received reports of a stabbing onboard a subway train at Wellesley Station at 4:45 p.m. A male victim, believed to be in his 20s, was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. A male suspect was arrested. It is not clear what charges they will face. Trains bypassed Wellesley Station due to the incident, however the TTC says that...
A retired RCMP officer charged with helping China conduct foreign interference asked a Quebec court judge on Monday to quash an indictment against him because it was filed in the wrong province. Lawyers for William Majcher argued in a courtroom in Longueuil, Que., on Montreal's South Shore, that the charges should have been filed in British Columbia or Ontario. "Those are two place in Canada where the offences are alleged to have been committed," said Louis Belleau, a Montreal-based...
A Toronto cop who was driving to a break-and-enter call last year when he crashed into a civilian vehicle and seriously injured two people has been cleared by the province’s police watchdog, but concerns are being raised about the speed at which he was travelling on the way to the scene. In a decision released April 19, the director of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, found there was “no basis” to lay criminal charges against the cop, identified only as subject officer...
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is raising eyebrows anew over his carbon pricing stance, refusing to say today whether or not he would keep scheduled increases in place if he becomes prime minister. The federal carbon price is set to rise to $170 per tonne of carbon dioxide or equivalent by 2030. Singh says his party will be putting forward its own plan. But he isn't saying whether that includes maintaining the current system. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has made repealing carbon...