Toronto Star
Heartbreak and regret
MILAN They will see the moments flash in their minds for years: open nets, open ice, a chance to win gold for their country. In the first bestonbest men's Olympic hockey final in 12 years, Canada knew what was riding on this and was the better team,...
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Canada shows its true grit
MILAN This is why they came back. This is why NHL players, and especially stars, wanted to return to the Olympics: to play in the games that make legends, with the weight of a country on your shoulders. Canada 4, Czechia 3, Olympic quarterfinals,...
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Striking gold, again
Race time was approaching, and so was the end. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais won gold in the team pursuit four years ago in Beijing and this was their last race, in an Olympic final. They hadn't really talked about it. In the...
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Back on the podium
MILAN Big air requires courage and Megan Oldham knows it. When she finished fourth in big air at the 2022 Olympics she just didn't have big enough jumps, so Oldham worked to change that. She became the first woman to land a triple cork in competition...
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GOING OUT ON TOP
MILAN When Mikaël Kingsbury was a child he told himself he would win Olympic gold in moguls one day, and there must have been so much wonder in that. He was entering a world with a destination, but no fixed ending; he was giving himself to the snow and...
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Marching in solidarity
A crowd estimated at 350,000 people took to the streets of North York in support of Iranian antiregime protesters on Saturday in one of the biggest rallies in the city's history. The march, which proceeded four kilometres down Yonge Street from...
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`We will always be with you'
Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country's federal leaders stood shoulder to shoulder to offer their support and remember victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Friday night. “Nothing I can say will bring your children home,” Carney...
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A community gripped by grief
It was a day of mourning in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., as more details about the victims of the shooting massacre emerged Thursday and anguished parents posted online about children who will never come home. Most were tweens. Their faces still had cherub...
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A community in shock, a nation united in grief
An agonizing search for answers is underway in a small town in northern British Columbia after a teenager went on a rampage with a pair of guns, killing six children and two adults in an attack that started in the perpetrator's home and ended in the...
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Water under the bridge?
After speaking with Donald Trump on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney played down the U.S. president's threat to thwart the opening of the new Canadianbuilt bridge between Windsor and Detroit, but the White House doubled down on Trump's insistence...
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Duct tape, bravery and a bronze
Megan Oldham stood at the top of the hill with an Olympic medal on the line, a medal she'd wanted since she was a kid, and her body hurt. The 24yearold had crashed in her second run in the freestyle ski slopestyle final at the Milan Cortina...
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Crossing the finish line
On a brisk Sunday morning, the first TTC riders boarded Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown LRT — a line that has finally opened after 15 years of delays and seemingly neverending construction. The inaugural train left from Kennedy Station at 7:29 a.m., a...
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Speeding to the podium
The first time Valérie Maltais cried was when she realized she had done it. She had met the love of her life, switched sports, hungrily worked to improve, won a gold medal in team pursuit at the Beijing Olympics, but it wasn't enough. Maltais wanted an...
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Getting in the ring
Una bella figura. For those who don't capisce Italian, that's an idiom meaning a whole bunch of things wrapped up in a few words: Stylish, cutting a fine figure, making a good impression, impeccable presentation, social grace. How this cosmopolitan...
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SCANDAL ROCKS POLICE
Seven police officers and one retired constable are facing charges in the wake of an unprecedented criminal corruption investigation that allegedly found Toronto cops leaking confidential information that facilitated shootings, extortions and a...
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The Olympic dispirit
This city must still be in her hair rollers and slip. Surely, before the guests formally arrive for Friday's opening ceremony of the XXV Winter Olympics, she'll be all set to fling open the front door and announce: Avanti! Avanti! But as the hours...
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The hear and now
For years, Anabia Bilal couldn't hear the simple sounds of her mother's footsteps walking around their home. The 10yearold couldn't hear a clock ticking or the wind whistling. And when people spoke to her during family gatherings, Anabia said it...
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Glimmer of hope in Gaza
CAIRO A dozen Palestinian returnees were allowed into Gaza from Egypt late Monday after the longawaited reopening of the Rafah border crossing was marred by delays. Their arrival came hours after a small group of medical evacuees was ferried from the...
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`We just want peace'
Throngs of demonstrators met at the city's downtown Sankofa Square Sunday afternoon, growing to an estimated crowd of 100,000 people in a march to Queen's Park, in a show of solidarity with Iranians who have been protesting the country's theocratic...
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The perfect storm
It was, in many ways, a perfect storm. It moved quietly, efficiently, leaving little untouched in its wake. A week after a recordbreaking snowfall hit Toronto, the evidence is still everywhere: snowbanks piled high at the edges of driveways, cars...
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A life of laughter
She was a global television and movie star who never lost her bred-in-Canada humility — who started out waitressing at Toronto's Second City club, soaking up lessons from the comedians she saw on its stage, and who went on to become a comedy legend...
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Undivided attention
Following revelations Thursday that U.S. government officials met Alberta separatists ahead of a possible independence referendum, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he expects the Donald Trump administration to respect Canadian sovereignty “at all...
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At the top of their Games
Canada's flagbearers for the Milan Cortina Olympics are decorated athletes who have waded through adversity to get to their fourth Games. On Feb. 6, moguls skier Mikaël Kingsbury and ski cross racer Marielle Thompson will bear the Maple Leaf in...
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BREAKING POINT
News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be present during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage at the inclusion of an agency that has dominated headlines...
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CAN YOU DIG IT?
Days before the first snowflake fell in Toronto on Sunday, a crew of scientists in Florida boarded a plane nicknamed “Gonzo” and flew backtoback missions, first over the Gulf of Mexico and then the Atlantic. “Gonzo” is a Hurricane Hunter, a fleet of...
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White out
A massive storm walloped southern Ontario on Sunday, dumping a record amount of snow that clogged roads and crippled public transit, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and prompting school boards to call off classes on Monday. The city...
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Fresh fury after killing
A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto frigid streets and ratcheting up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier. Family members identified the...
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Plagued with delays
The city's new $3.5billion Finch West LRT was delayed the equivalent of two and a half hours a day during its first three weeks of operation — problems overwhelmingly caused by the line's inability to handle inclement weather. That's the snapshot...
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Trump touts `forever' deal on Greenland
U.S. President Donald Trump says there are talks underway on a “forever” deal over Greenland, the Danish island he has said America must acquire to protect against national and international security threats. Trump revealed the discussions after a...
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`The old order is not coming back'
The old “rulesbased” world order is dead, Prime Minister Mark Carney told a global elite audience Tuesday in a hardhitting speech that urged middle powers to form strategic new alliances to protect their interests, citizens and values. “The old...
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Caught in the middle
U.S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year's decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway's prime minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” in a text message...
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Carney heralds global shift
Talk about a reset. Fresh off lowering tariffs on some Chinesemade electric vehicle imports in exchange for President Xi Jinping's reduction of tariffs on Canadian canola and seafood, Prime Minister Mark Carney departs China setting out a dramatic...
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Family's legacy shines bright
The convocation ceremony was already underway when Liam Coles noticed movement at the side of the room. He was seated near the front in his gown, listening and waiting for his moment to cross the stage after some of the hardest months of his...
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He just wants police to `leave him alone'
Dale James rarely leaves the apartment he shares with his mom. If he does go out, he prefers to take a drive to a family home in Barrie, away from Toronto, the city where police officers have been continually stopping the 42yearold Black man since he...
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Death toll rises amid growing unrest in Iran
Nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy reached the twoweek mark on Sunday, as activists reported a rising death toll in violence surrounding the demonstrations. With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the...
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Minneapolis on edge
As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis's streets Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by U.S. federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded and...
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`I really shouldn't have lived'
For Nicole Grigorov, even the simplest of tasks — tying her hair back, sending a text, putting on clothes — now feel impossible. It's frustrating having to relearn how to use your hands and feet, Grigorov told the Star from her hospital bed in Niagara...
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Defiant in captivity
A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in...
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COURSE OBSTACLES
Each year, Sarah Groh would carefully plot out her undergraduate courses. Unlike her peers, she preferred early morning classes because they helped her get ahead of Toronto traffic and left her evenings free to run her custom cakemaking business. “It...
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GOOD THINKING
Toronto is full of ideas. And we think we've found a great one. When we asked Star readers for ideas to improve this city, they sent their brainstorms by the dozens. And when we asked readers to vote on the submissions, thousands more responded. Now...
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Diving into a new year
Out with the old, in with the cold DARE TO DIP The gusting winds and frosty 12 C temperatures on New Year's Day didn't hold back hundreds of brave people from running into the icy shallows of Lake Ontario from the beach at Sunnyside Park. Pardeep...
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TCHC to save building corroding from inside out
When the brick walls of 300 Dufferin Street started to crack, the building owner didn't see an immediate cause for panic. In a city filled with aging brick, a crack or two wasn't unusual — a sign of water getting in and then freezing, hardly causing...
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Behind schedule
Toronto in February 2020 hustled and bustled in blissful ignorance. The roads were clogged with cars, and the trains were full of people. The TTC logged 10 million weekly trips, a healthy bump from the year prior. Then, in the span of two weeks, that...
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Fighting for a boy's legacy
In the throes of grief, Holly Roy had a singular request. “Anyone who's asked me if I need anything,” she wrote in a Facebook post, just over two months after her son, JahVai, was killed by a stray bullet that punctured the bedroom window of her Black...
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`We're all forever changed'
Clayton Bouffard will bring it up every once in a while with his wife: What if they hadn't gotten on that plane? What if, when the Delta gate attendants offered to bump two people off that February flight to Toronto, they had taken the offer? What if...
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The river wild: New park draws species not seen for a century to mouth of Don
When the black and white, bluntbilled creature floated into a river valley just east of downtown Toronto, birdwatching web pages buzzed and birders flocked to witness and record the amazing visitor. While any razorbill visit would be special, this...
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City shifts course as market slump threatens coop development
A multimilliondollar land sale city hall is banking on to help fund Toronto's largest new coop development in decades has been delayed in getting across the finish line. Toronto is now crafting backup plans to ensure the marquee housing project in...
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Oh, 2025. You housed the best of times and the worst of times (some more than others). As the city gears up for the ring of Santa's sleighbells and the arrival of a new year, the Star looked back, picking ornaments to mark some of Toronto's most...
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`Just a new normal'
The little girl with a tiny blond ponytail sticking up from the crown of her head is fearlessly padding around the living room, barefoot, with her bottle — “baba” — greeting strangers who have come just to see her. At 18 months, SkylaRose is...
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Liberal `yute' caucus
Minutes before the House of Commons rose for the holiday break, four rookie Liberal MPs huddled in one of their offices and debated a surprisingly difficult question: how they wanted to pose on camera. Should they look serious? Make a funny face? Or a...
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WHEN THE CAMERAS STOPPED
Jordan Mendez doesn't flinch as the jury foreperson reads the verdict. Guilty of firstdegree murder. He stands, expression unreadable, as his coaccused lowers his head and the victim's mother rocks in her seat, before rising and glaring at the two...
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Innocence restored
Prosecutors will not pursue a second trial against Timothy Rees after his 1990 conviction in the death of 10yearold Darla Thurrott was quashed by Ontario's top court in light of new evidence, thought to have been buried by police for years. The...
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The fast and the festive
Cruising through Toronto's downtown core, Chris Demaras dials down his radio playing Christmas tunes as pedestrians cheer, wave and hurry to snap a photo of his GMC truck decked out in holiday themed lights. A young kid shouts, “I like your car!” and...
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Thorncliffe residents face indefinite wait
StaceyAnne Bistak was eating Thanksgiving dinner in late November in Ohio with her husband's family when she learned the apartment building she lived in was on fire. Now, Christmas is only a week away, and Bistak, a resident at one of the two...
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`We need these answers'
Lang Choy now knows her brother died inside his Black Volkswagen as it sat parked outside the entrance of Humber River Hospital for three days. What she doesn't know is when. From the little Lang has been told by police, the vehicle came to a stop...
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CUT OFF
The corner of Broadview Avenue and Queen Street East sits a stone's throw away from the busy Gardiner Expressway. And yet, were you to call up your phone's traffic app and map a route, you might well be told to do the following: Drive west to Bayview...
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Losing Liam
One Tuesday night, 11 days before she was due to give birth, Katherine Cribbs took a bath. Usually, Cribbs could feel her baby son moving and playing inside her womb when she was in the water. But that night, she felt only heaviness. She crept...
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Three murders solved
It was a summer evening in June 1982. Christine Prince, a 25yearold nanny from Wales living in Toronto, got on a streetcar after a night out with friends. Her body was found the next day in the Rouge River. After entering a beige vehicle on Jarvis...
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SLUSH PUPPY
A snowfall warning for the Toronto area was lifted as temperatures plummeted Wednesday evening into Thursday following a wet, snowy and slowgoing day in the city and on roads. And the region can thank visitors from the Prairies for the...
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Finch West LRT off to a slow start
The TTC and the city of Toronto are scrambling to speed up the Finch West LRT after the new line — six years and billions of dollars in the making — opened on the weekend with slowerthanpromised service. Mayor Olivia Chow said Tuesday she plans to...
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In her own defence
Her voice trembling, a woman on Monday described the final moments of the 12yearold boy she's accused of murdering — a child she was planning to adopt and insisted she always loved, despite referring to him in numerous text messages by terms such as...
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NOW ARRIVING
Kevin Wang has waited much of his life for this moment. The 12yearold first saw the Finch West LRT trains at a train yard when he was seven. On Sunday, he waited nearly two hours — in the dark morning hours of the weekend and in the frost and snow —...
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Mass torture in Syria
Ahmet Alrahmo sat awake in his apartment in Waterloo, Ont., eyes fixed on the news coming out of Syria, the country he once called home. It was December 2024, just hours after the fall of Bashar alAssad's regime. Alrahmo watched as the gates of the...
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City reeling after Algoma layoffs
In households across Sault Ste. Marie this Christmas, the usual holiday cheer will be mixed with fear and uncertainty. “Sitting around the Christmas table not knowing if you're going to have a job is just awful,” said Bill Slater, president of USW...
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`They have lost hope'
Refugees from Africa continue to face longer wait times for resettlement to Canada than applicants from other regions, two years after a government audit identified inequities in immigration processing, says a new report. “The persistence of...
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Wish upon a baseball star
Five years ago, George Springer was one of Major League Baseball's most prominent free agents. As a highly touted outfielder and proven playoff performer, just about every team was interested in acquiring him, but only a small handful could afford his...
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Trust and reconsideration
OTTAWA Prime Minister Mark Carney sought to assure hundreds of First Nations chiefs Tuesday that the federal government will not impose a pipeline or other resource projects over their objections after they unanimously called for the withdrawal of his...
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A fatherson double play
John Bains became a magnet for homerun balls at the Rogers Centre during the Blue Jays' playoff drive — even the ones he didn't want — and it paid off big time for him last week. The longtime baseball fan and his son Matthew watched from their...
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Hope hits the light rails
Growing up in the JaneFinch neighbourhood, filmmaker Paul Nguyen felt like he lived in a forgotten corner of the city. His community was a world away from the downtown core and overlooked by urban developments. “In the past, when people would ask...
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Province takes control of realty regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator is getting a new boss. The province has appointed an administrator to oversee the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) in the wake of the iPro scandal, which raised widespread concerns about the regulator's ability to...
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`I've been labelled a killer, and I'm not'
Ontario's top court has quashed the conviction of Timothy Rees, formerly sentenced to life for the murder of 10yearold Darla Thurrott, in light of new evidence alleged to have been “buried” by police for years. A new trial was ordered for Rees, 62,...
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