Toronto Sun

`PERFORM BETTER'

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is taking heat from former MLB stars such as Joey Votto, Vernon Wells and Josh Donaldson after controversial comments about living up to his contract created an outcry around the game on Wednesday. The emergence of Guerrero's...

`MY LITTLE GIRL WILL NEVER COME BACK'

Kenneth Law preyed upon the vulnerable, peddling poison that promised escape, denying them the time they needed to find another way forward. Now the 61-year-old sits in a prisoner's box in a Newmarket courtroom, convicted of assisting the suicides of...

`MASSACRE IN THE MAKING'

HATE IN A SMALL TOWN

As Yom Kippur was celebrated on Sunday night, shots were exchanged outside a synagogue in Belleville, leaving a police officer and the shooting suspect injured. The incident took place around 7 p.m. outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue during Yom...

WORLD OF HURT

The world woke up Sunday morning to intensified fighting between Ukraine and Russia, North Korea firing ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan and the real possibility of war between the U.S. and Iran resuming. Also this week, the United Nations...

E-BUST

Weeks before the board of the Toronto Transit Commission hurried a report off the floor, in a transit yard in Philadelphia, the electric buses were on fire. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) had fought a losing battle with...

FORD BLURS LINES

Doug Ford really wants everyone to know that when he endorsed Olivia Chow the other day, it wasn't an endorsement. Ford had his office put out a statement to that effect late Thursday, about 32 hours after he made the original statement. It's a...

THE TEA LEAFS

If, for whatever reason you've wondered about Gavin Mckenna's office maturity, you're wasting time. Consider what the first pick in the 2026 National Hockey League draft had to say about playing with talented, longtime NHL veterans John Tavares and...

NEW DANCE PARTNER

‘ACTS OF BUTCHERY’

The Scarborough man found not criminally responsible last year of butchering his parents with a golf club no longer displays symptoms of schizophrenia and has been allowed accompanied passes outside of Whitby's Ontario Shores psychiatric...

GO BALLISTIC

OTTAWA — A video posted online depicting a group of girls assaulting a pair of elderly GO Transit passengers is sparking outrage — and according to the daughter of the elderly couple targeted in the video, Metrolinx staff responded with...

EUROPEAN VACATION?

$500G PET PROJECT ?

How do you spend half a million dollars fencing in a field? Shawn Allen thinks City Hall has a spending problem, and his first, best example is the new off-leash dog park at Lawrence Ave. E. and Starspray Blvd., east of Port Union Rd. He wants to be...

RELIVING THE `HORRORS'

There isn't an ounce of empathy from this sadistic, schoolgirl sex killer. For the fourth time in eight years, serial rapist and murderer Paul Bernardo is seeking parole. Next month, the man who now officially goes by the name Paul Teale will appear...

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF TERROR

For those of us who were in New York City that horrific day, the 9/11 terrorist attacks are never very far away. This abomination occurred 25 years ago Friday. A kid's ball game, a smiling cop or a fire truck racing past. It's the little things that...

BACK TO THE FUTURE?

LILLEY ✦ WARMINGTON ✦ PAPUCKOSKI ✦ EDITORIAL

THE REAL THREAT

It's not Donald Trump's map jokes or hockey memes that should worry Canadians. It's what he's signalling about trade. Sure, those posts are annoying. They get under your skin, which is why Trump posts them. What should really worry Canadians is when...

FIRE BUG

A man who appears to have a history of run-ins with the law now stands accused of deliberately setting vehicles ablaze at a member of parliament's Scarborough home last month. Toronto Police say the alleged arson unfolded at a house — later identified...

ON THE WRONG TRACK

The man who couldn't get slow-moving light rail to work properly in Ontario is now advising the Carney government on their Alto high-speed rail project. If ever there was a sign that the Alto project is destined for disaster, it's the decision to hire...

INTO THE SUNSET

The Snowbirds are perhaps the most enduring legacy in this county. “As exciting as it is to fly, the thing that I enjoy the most is traveling around with the guys and being part of this, meeting so many Canadians who have been impacted for 55 years,”...

`HARD TO IGNORE'

TALES FROM THE CRYPTO

The arrogance of the fallen self-proclaimed “Crypto King” knows no bounds. Free on bail, Durham Region's Aiden Pleterski was supposed to be in the downtown Toronto courtroom by 9 a.m. on Tuesday for an update on his case — he goes to trial before a...

HOW TO CURE A HANGOVER

Early struggles were inevitable after last year's magical run, but Schneider says Jays are awake and focused on making playoffs

MAXIMUM CARNAGE

It was a turn-back-the-clock day for Max Scherzer. The Blue Jays veteran right-hander and sure-thing future hall of famer reached back to his younger years for this one, throwing a season-high seven sterling innings of one-hit shutout ball in the Blue...

REALITY SHOW

`UNFORTUNATE'

The buses may be faster, but voters will go to the polls on Oct. 26 before they have all the facts on Rapidto. While city hall has been collecting data on TTC performance, traffic volumes and travel times on Bathurst and Dufferin Sts., in and around...

DEADLY DERELICTION

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is reportedly taking steps to fire two air traffic controllers who left work early before a fatal Air Canada jet collision at New York City's Laguardia Airport in March. Two pilots of Air Canada Express Flight...

FROM VLAD TO WORSE

In this sad summer of Blue Jays baseball, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., sat alone at the end of the dugout on Tuesday night, head down, as the rest of his teammates made their way down the hall to the clubhouse. Pretty soon, August will become September and...

WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

FORD V. TRUMP

LILLEY, WARMINGTON, KINSELLA, PASSIFIUME, ANDERSON & DANIELL ON TRADE WAR

WAR ZONE

The good news may be that President Donald Trump has acknowledged that not only is Canada not the 51st state, but not a state at all. For those who savour free trade and capitalism, the bad news may be that Canadian taxpayers' economic partner is...

NO DEAL!

READY TO BLOW

Recent well-publicized fires in Toronto have been caused by damaged or overcharged batteries in devices like e-bikes and e-scooters. “The fundamental problem is that these devices are being used in ways they were never designed for,” Randy Narine,...

DYNAMITE!

It has been nearly eight years since BTS played three sold-out shows in Hamilton. The K-pop group is set to bring its Arirang World Tour to Toronto's Rogers Stadium. In North York, a strip of Yonge St., from North York Blvd. to Finch Ave., has been...

A FAIL OF TWO CITIES

The priority of city government in Toronto's Beaches-east York ward does not seem to be on children, their families or taxpaying homeowners. It seems it's more about servicing drug addicts and their suppliers. When it comes to ending drug sales and...

CRO$$ CHECK

This is not quite his element. Toronto hockey centre John Tavares usually meets the media in his Maple Leafs blue and white — but on this summer day, he's in the hallway of the federal Tax Court, dressed in a smart grey windowpane suit as he fights...

DOUBLE WHAMMY

SOPHIE FEVER

Crunching the numbers on crime

Critics of the police and tougher bail and sentencing laws to combat violent crime have two approaches to the release of annual statistics on crime. But they both end up in the same place. If crime is up, they argue the criminal justice system isn't...

CURBED

The Ontario Court of Appeal hasn't just overturned the ridiculous court ruling claiming a Charter right to bike lanes, it has excoriated the judge and the ruling. In a unanimous decision published Friday, the three judges of the appeal court have...

CLOSE CALL

This was as close as possible to there being the need for another cop funeral. In fact, if not for the quick action of Toronto Police officers responding to one of their own being shot in the thigh — one of whom has only been on the job about four...

THE BLAME TRAIN

How does a subway project's price tag increase from $10.9 billion to more than three times that amount at more than $34 billion? That's a legitimate question many are asking in the wake of news that the cost of the Ontario Line in Toronto appears to...

YER OUT ... OF YOUR MINDS!

If you were left confused as to why the Boston Red Sox were credited with a run after the Blue Jays turned a double play to end the seventh inning on Monday night, you most certainly were not alone. And what didn't help was a review that lasted 14...

LA DOLCE VITA

OTTAWA — With the Trump administration's deadline to slap Canada with 50% tariffs looming a little over a week away, Prime Minister Mark Carney is spending the week in Italy on vacation. In a note sent to the Parliamentary Press Gallery on Saturday,...

MONEY BALL

Miss Universe Canada was called out by one of the pageant's former winners after two of its contestants wore Indigenous regalia during the costume portion of the competition last week, APTN News reported. According to the Indigenous news network, one...

DUAL HEADACHE

Britain's government has found a lucrative new revenue stream — and it's hitting Canadians and ex-pats in this country hard in the wallet. I have dual citizenship in Canada and the United Kingdom. Like thousands of other ex-pats, I discovered that...

`OUT OF CONTROL'

It really has become nasty in Toronto and the GTA! How many close calls and wake-up calls are needed before somebody starts admitting this! On the same day on which it could have been necessary to plan two more cop funerals comes information that for...

WHAT'S WRONG?

Hard to fully grasp what the Blue Jays saw in right-hander Jameson Taillon, who was designated for assignment by the Chicago Cubs and then shipped out of town for what essentially amounted to nothing or very little. In his debut with the Jays on...

HELL ... ON WHEELS

The key demographic for e-scooter injuries has been identified, according to a physician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. “The classic e-scooter injury is a boy, aged 10-12,” Dr. Daniel Rosenfield, a pediatric emergency physician, told...

OUTTA HERE!

If you are a Major League Baseball general manager who has witnessed your team go from last to first and are in danger of plunging back to last again, you better be busy on trade deadline day. Apparently Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins was up to the task, a...

CARTFUL OF TROUBLE

Toronto Council intends to fight surveillance pricing of groceries — whether or not it has the right to do it. Councillors Thursday morning endorsed a proposal, spearheaded by Mayor Olivia Chow, to “identify all possible mechanisms for the City of...

GOING , GOING , GONE ?

If this indeed is Kevin Gausman's final weekend as a Blue Jay, it won't be an easy one for the veteran starter and all those who have come to admire his work. It won't be easy for Blue Jays fans, who have seen the best of the righthander over the past...

DESTINATION: DISASTER

Destination Canada is the $142-million-a-year agency responsible for marketing Canada to the world. Yet, Mark Carney's government appears poised to appoint Jagmeet Singh, a man with no meaningful tourism or marketing experience, to lead it. CTV broke...

TEENS SLAIN OVER BEAR SPRAY?

Two teens were gunned down in a shootout at a Stoney Creek co-op housing complex early Wednesday — possibly in retaliation for a bear spray incident hours earlier. Hamilton Police said officers rushed to a home on Candlewood Dr., near Whitedeer Rd....

`TIP OF THE ICEBERG'

Thanks to the courageous act of one woman, police say nine people were arrested and charged with multiple heinous crimes. “In September ... a strong and brave woman came forward (to us) as a survivor of exploitation,” Halton Regional Police Supt....

THEY HAVE NO FEAR

OTTAWA — Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo said Monday that the “people responsible” will be brought “to justice” after a gunman opened fire on the U.S. Consulate for the second time in four months. Just after 4:46 a.m., a Toronto Police...

SHATTERED CITY

GRITS BAIL OUT

Mark Carney's Liberal government launched Operation Coward on Friday night, quietly undercutting the expansion of Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport. A carefully timed leak to the Liberal-friendly Toronto Star, published around 8 p.m. Friday, featured...

AMBUSHED

Toronto Police have arrested a man in a shooting early Friday that left a woman dead in north Etobicoke. Officers rushed to the Humberwood and Rexdale Blvds. area, west of Woodbine Mall, at around 7:25 a.m. where they found the woman with a gunshot...

CBC AS DISINFO WATCHDOG?

The CBC as Canada's federally appointed fact-checker? That sounds less like journalism and more like turning the state broadcaster into an information gatekeeper for the governing party. There has been a lot of excitement after Blacklock's Reporter...

PIMPING FROM BEHIND BARS

A member of the bloodthirsty MS-13 street gang now caged for attempted murder has been arrested and charged with human trafficking. He allegedly did his pimping from behind the concrete walls of a Canadian prison. Peel Regional Police pulled back...

`BULLY' TACTICS

OTTAWA — Amid the United States' latest salvo in its trade war against Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to “intensify” talks between the two nations. Speaking to reporters outside of his Wellington St. offices...

GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YA

It's starting to look like Prime Minister Mark Carney is dancing around the edges of the truth as he tries to defend the Gordie Howe Bridge deal. What Carney has told the media in Canada doesn't match reputable reporting from Bloomberg and the Globe...

`HE HAD HIS OWN WAY'

The guys got together on Friday night, had a few laughs, told a few lies, had a drink or two and it was then that Duane Ward left early. He said he was tired. “That wasn't like Wardo to leave early,” Tom Henke said on Sunday morning, after learning of...

PARKING VIOLATION?

The Toronto Parking Authority is seeking a partner for a new loyalty program — and says it “is aware of the potential for a conflict of interest” for one of its executives. That executive, vice-president Adamo Donatucci, was brought into City Hall...

COSTLY WHEELS

Costs of thefts from the City of Toronto's bike share program have been racking up, with nearly $400,000 worth of bicycles written off over the past three years. But while figures obtained via freedom-of-information law suggest it's a growing issue,...

HOOP DREAM$

A committee led by Mayor Olivia Chow is likely to sign off on a 40-year lease for Toronto's WNBA team, which would pay $1 a year for a parcel of land the city may value at $10 million — or more. A report, prepared for Chow's powerful executive...

5 YEARS FOR TEEN KILLER

Just five more years in detention for this frightening young killer. In the end, the Oshawa judge agreed to give the disturbed 15-year-old killer of great-grandmother Eleanor “Ellie” Doney a year's credit for the 13 months he has been detained in a...

MURDER ON HIS MIND

The boy who savagely murdered a Pickering grandmother gardening on her front lawn last year still has an ongoing fascination with serial killers and has no insight into the devastation he has caused. When he recently got into a fight with another...

`TARGETED'

Toronto Police have identified Cesar Vinces, 20, and Shaquan Quashie, 25, as the two men who were killed at the Salsa on St. Clair festival on Saturday night in what cops say they believe was a targeted shooting. Speaking alongside Toronto Mayor...

‘TIPPING POINT’

Move over, summer of the gun. Just call this the weekend of the gun. Whatever you call it, it was a deadly weekend from hell, which will go down in history as Toronto's dirty dozen of shootings. This is not Chicago, which often has weekends such as...

PM'S BAD BUDDIES

Our prime ministerial frequent flyer was on the road again recently. One wonders if he leafed through Dr. Martin Luther King's first book on the plane. There's a memorable passage in it: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he...

T.O.'S ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

Welcome to Zombieland. But this is no movie being filmed in Toronto or about the city. This is Toronto. It's a non-fiction story. These fellow Torontonians swaying around in a perpetual high state or crouched head down with fentanyl in their systems...

LAWYER CLEARED TO PRACTISE

A tribunal has ruled that a Toronto lawyer originally charged with intimate partner violence and making death threats can continue to practise. The Law Society of Ontario wanted Jagdeep Sikh Virk, 47, placed on a temporary suspension — or, at least,...

`LOSS DEEPLY FELT'

The tragedy of the death of Durham Regional Police constable-in-training Tyrone Magbitang isn't just that he was about to fulfil his ambition of becoming a police officer. It's also that Durham Region won't have this brilliant 27-yearold out there...