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CHINA'S LAPDOG

While Liberal MP Michael Ma has belatedly apologized for questioning the veracity of expert testimony at a Commons committee hearing that China uses forced labour — claiming that wasn't his intent — cosying up to China has been mainstream Liberal...

NOT CREDIBLE

Michael Ma says he was misunderstood, but you shouldn't believe him. The Conservative MP who crossed the floor and joined the Liberals last December has not only had a change of heart politically but he also now appears to be speaking up for China. At...

WHO'S YOUR VLADDY?

They're two of the biggest hockey fans among the Blue Jays — one of them a former high school all star, the other a diehard Hartford Whalers backer. But when Ernie Clement and George Springer attended Wednesday's Leafs-new York Rangers game at...

KICK IN THE JEWELS

Diamonds may be forever, but that life is over for this Mississauga store that's famous for selling them. Robbers didn't just get six figures worth of this store's jewelry, but they put them out of business, too. The masked bandits weren't only...

COME RIGHT IN!

BILLY CLUB

In Doug Ford's world, expanding Billy Bishop airport on Toronto's waterfront is about driving dynamic economic growth. Ford announced on Monday that his government will introduce legislation this week to take over the city's role and portion of the...

PAIN REMAINS

For Davis Schneider, there was only one way to escape the ache, a bruising so deep he couldn't stand being in Toronto a minute longer. The wound from that harrowing loss in the seventh and deciding game of the 121st World Series was so acute, the...

TURNING A BLIND EYE?

What in heaven's name is going on in Prime Minister Mark Carney's government with regard to the threat posed to Canada's national security by India? It's as if the Liberals have learned nothing from the foreign interference inquiry in which Justice...

MOISE BROKE THE CODE

City Councillor Chris Moise is proving once again that he has no class. Chastised by the integrity commissioner for calling a constituent names, Moise is responding by trying to insult the constituent once again. It dates back to the city's decision...

SORRY, NOT SORRY

No wonder Umar Zameer's lawyer came out guns blazing to demand a public inquiry. Two years after a jury of his peers acquitted Zameer of murdering Det.-const. Jeffrey Northrup, his innocence has been challenged once again by Toronto Police and the...

`GLAD YOU SHOT THE GUY'

Premier Doug Ford says a homeowner in Vaughan should have shot the men who invaded his home a few more times. Ford was reacting to the latest home invasion story in the GTA during a news conference Wednesday morning. Ford went far beyond what most...

Bursting his balloon

After decades of guessing who it could be, it looks like the identity of world-famous street artist Banksy has finally been uncovered. On Friday, news outlet Reuters published its findings of an in-depth investigation into who the person is behind the...

WHY NOT HERE?

Every day in courthouses across Canada, judges deliver rulings that strain credulity: decisions based on the airy fairy fictions of the faculty lounge, decisions far removed from our every day lives that most of us try to live with a modicum of common...

GOLDEN OLDIES

He is 41 going on 20, it seems, which is why Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer has a kinship with Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin, who is a youthful 40 and still going strong in the NHL. Great respects great and the two hyper-successful...

CAN'T STOP HATE FEST

A judge said no to Premier Doug Ford's request for an injunction to stop the Al-quds Day rally in downtown Toronto. The province of Ontario made a plea in a courtroom Saturday morning. Sources said the objective was to see the application for the...

LET'S DO THIS AGAIN

It's uncharted territory for Canada at the World Baseball Classic from here on out. Canada never had reached the quarterfinals since the inception of the tournament in 2006. That was five unsuccessful tries before finally getting a chance to play in...

`WE STILL LOST'

History was made for Canadian baseball on Wednesday afternoon in San Juan, Puewrto Rico. Canada advanced past the first round of the World Baseball Classic for the first time, beating Cuba 7-2 in a winner-take-all game at Hiram Bithorn Stadium behind...

DEAF 'N' DUMB

The CBC allegedly has a toxic culture rife with intimidation that management is aware of, but ignores. That was some of the Tuesday testimony from former CBC prime-time TV host Travis Dhanraj before the House of Commons heritage committee. Dhanraj's...

WAR OVER `SOON'?

LING HUI and EDDIE CHAU As the conflict in Iran enters a second week, U.S. President Donald Trump says the military operation is “ahead of our initial timeline by a lot.” Meanwhile, Iran launched more attacks on Israel and Persian Gulf countries,...

POUR SPORTS

Was it a late, great idea or was Mayor Olivia Chow hoping her political rivals would be snowed in? When Chow's executive committee meets on Tuesday, it will consider winter wonderland ideas like paid snow shovelling and outdoor pro hockey — a bit of a...

JEWS `UNDER ATTACK'

The Greater Toronto Area has been shaken to its core after gunshots were fired into two more synagogues. Toronto Police and neighbouring York Regional Police were sharing information Saturday morning following two disturbing Jewish synagogue shootings...

ON A WING AND A PRAYER

The discussion going on about whether Canada could or should get involved in the war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is becoming laughable. We've had Prime Minister Mark Carney say that Canada wasn't consulted nor asked to...

PICK A SIDE

Toronto will get a better picture this weekend of just how much support there was for Iran's fallen spiritual leader and how much opposition there really is for the war being prosecuted by Israel and America that eliminated him. While some local...

HAMMER TIME

Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath has taken her own city and former common-law partner to court over a rental home in danger of collapsing. The City of Hamilton has ordered the Mayor to repair the property by the beginning of May. But Horwath says her...

FIXER UPPER

Normally, defenceman get better with age. They calm down over time. They skate less and think more. They understand their positioning, where to be on the ice, where not to be. They learn what to do with their sticks and how best to control gaps. They...

`WHERE IS MEZHGAN?'

Mezhgan Aini was missing for three years, but no one knew it. Well, almost no one. Peel Regional Police said they believe the mysterious vanishing of the Mississauga mom was a homicide. Sometime between June and September in 2022, the Afghan refugee,...

TARGETED

The overnight shooting at a boxing gym run by a well-known activist for Iranian freedom is being investigated by York Regional Police. But since it occurred just hours after the announced death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following...

END OF A TYRANT

Telling the Iranian people to “shelter” in their homes as “bombs will be dropping everywhere,” U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced the declaration of war on Iran's long-running tyrannical regime. Dubbed Operation Epic Fury, the early stages of...

`WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK'

`WHY THEM?'

He stole three of her four children. The teen knew better. He had seen all the videos about the dangers of drunk driving. He knew he probably shouldn't get behind the wheel that night. Yet, he did it anyway. And because of 19-year-old Ethan...

IN OUR HEARTS

With his bags packed, Wes Johnson is ready to go see his beloved Blue Jays at spring training in Dunedin, Fla. His mother, Jennah, said no one deserves it more, though she does note her son may have overlooked a couple of things. “All he seems to...

DOUG, YOU'RE NOT HELPING

The only person who could realistically benefit from Doug Ford's appearance on CNN on Monday is Doug Ford himself. Ontario's premier decided to insert himself once again in the middle of international trade negotiations, an area he has no jurisdiction...

MAYHEM

OTTAWA — Canada's foreign minister said as many as 26,000 Canadians are in Mexico as of Monday, according to registrations received by Global Affairs Canada. Speaking to reporters from the foyer of the House of Commons on Monday, Foreign Affairs...

U.S. INVASION

While plushies may be popular with millennials and the younger generations, it seems the cuddly Olympic stuffed animals that were handed out after Team Canada's loss to Team USA in the men's hockey gold-medal game at the Milan-cortina Games were no...

MORNING GLORY?

Canadian speedskater Ivanie Blondin held a Canadian in one hand and a cowboy hat in the other as she glided on the ice to celebrate her fourth and last Olympic medal. Blondin won a silver medal in the speedskating mass start race on Saturday, making...

GOLD RUSH

The Great One believes that, in the fullness of time, the currently strained relationship between Canada and the United States will be great once again. “At the end of the day, Canada and the U.S. are like brothers and sisters,” Wayne Gretzky said in...

CRUSHED

MILAN — During the agonizing wait for the medals to be awarded following a heart-breaking loss to the U.S., Marie-philip Poulin tried to do the impossible and ease the pain. One by one, Canada's captain worked her way down the line of players, with a...

MONEY PIT

A sweetheart deal with the Kielburger clan to rent a building for a women's shelter has seen millions spent, but no shelter being opened yet in Cabbagetown. The building at 233 Carlton St., the first headquarters for Free the Children and WE Charity,...

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Mark Carney went to Montreal on Tuesday to announce a new push for defence spending. The prime minister was announcing Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy a week later than planned after his initial announcement was delayed due to the shooting in...

INSECURE

The CSTS are gone from the shelter at 545 Lake Shore Blvd. W., but they're not forgotten. Security guards — employed as part of the City of Toronto's community safety teams concept, and often referred to as CSTS — worked at the large homeless shelter...

`VOICE OF FREEDOM CAN'T BE SILENCED'

TEARS AND HEARTACHE IN B.C.

TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. — In the wake of Tuesday's mass shooting at the local high school, a sense of unease has hung over the District of Tumbler Ridge. This is a municipality of 2,400 that wants to grieve privately. A few of the downtown shops remain...

`MERE ERRORS OF JUDGMENT'

The province's police watchdog has found that two Halton cops may have dropped the ball — twice — by not taking a drunk driver off the road before he caused a crash that took his life and the lives of two others in Milton nearly two years ago. But...

`Nation mourns with you'

TUMBLER RIDGE — The person behind one of British Columbia's worst mass killings has been identified as an 18-year-old dropout who killed family members at home, then gunned down random students at a school before firing on police and killing herself as...

BREAK IN GUTHRIE CASE?

There is little evidence that the missing mother of Today show star Savannah Guthrie is still alive. Nancy Guthrie, 84, vanished from her million-dollar Tucson, Ariz., home overnight on Jan. 31. Since her disappearance, the investigation has been...

POLICING THE POLICE

While the eight current or retired officers charged with alleged corruption are from the Toronto Police, all 45 Ontario police departments will be probed, it was announced Monday. Saying “organized crime is insidious,” Ontario's top oversight official...

`GRAND' SLAM

The Toronto Blue Jays weren't the only guys in the city working overtime during the deciding game of the World Series. Figures from the Toronto Transit Commission, released to the Toronto Sun after a freedom-of-information request, show almost...

TRUST GOING SOUTH

NUMB TO THE VIOLENCE

Another young person's dreams have been cut down by senseless gun violence. A shooting of a teenaged boy in a packed Scarborough Tim Hortons has been determined to be Toronto's second murder of 2026. “Homicide has now taken over the investigation,”...

BLACK AND BLUE

How does a conspiracy start? What off-ramp takes you from the high road to the low? Maybe it's over a beer at a Mississauga tavern a few blocks away from the arena. Maybe sitting in a patrol car or at a barbecue. Maybe you inherit the poison. Maybe...

`DARKEST DAY'?

HE'S HOME

There will be no more prosecutions. No more names. No more nothing. Justice? Forget it. The Jeffrey Epstein affair is tragically destined to become this generation's John F. Kennedy assassination. A muddy mess of contradictions, rumours and...

GLORY & GORY

The Maple Leafs defence: Who's in, who's out, and who's likely to stay long term, was a big pre-game question Monday in Calgary. Before the late-start road game against the Flames, head coach Craig Berube revealed that Morgan Rielly's upper-body...

`SO PROUD TO BE CANADIAN'

Sebastian “Seb” Halmagean proudly served his country for the last three years — and while the military can be a harsh life, his father says he loved being a soldier. Sadly, the Hamilton, Ont., native who turned 24 on Christmas Day died Thursday in...

THERE GOES JOB SECURITY

The City of Toronto is cutting ties with its shelter security contractor One Community Solutions and its private guards have been ordered off the job. The move comes with Toronto plunged in a deep freeze, straining the resources of the city's homeless...

CANADIAN ORIGINAL

Catherine O'hara, who was best known for her work on Schitt's Creek, Home Alone, SCTV and a recent turn on The Studio has died at the age of 71, her management team has confirmed. According to her agency, CAA, O'hara died Friday at her home in Los...

RUBBER STAMPED

Toronto Public Health (TPH) is spending nearly $200,000 on condoms and other sex paraphernalia for the World Cup, the Toronto Sun has learned. An invoice, obtained in a freedom-of-information request, shows TPH has purchased 576,000 branded condoms...

BLUE REVIEW

As he heads to the Conservative convention in Calgary this weekend, Pierre Poilievre must be spending a lot of time thinking about numbers. There are the numbers he needs to get from his own party's base in his leadership review, then there are the...

SENDING WRONG SIGNAL?

IT’S SNOW JOKE!

If you thought Sunday's snowfall seemed like more than you can recall in recent years, you are right. An estimated 56 cm of snow fell in Toronto city centre, according to Environment Canada's weather summary, although the agency's volunteer totals...

LET IT SNOW?

Suspected Canadian cocaine king Ryan Wedding is staring down the barrel of infinity in a U.S. prison. If the 44-year-old former Olympic snowboarder had been arrested in Canada, well, he might have been able to count on some judge claiming his...

U.S., CANADA IN DEEP FREEZE

As most of Canada is plunged into a deep freeze, the extreme weather is causing flight delays and cancellations at airports in several cities. And on Saturday, local officials urged residents to take precautions to weather the storm. Air Canada said...

Fighting words

Prince Harry has joined U.K. veterans and politicians voicing their outrage after U.S. President Donald Trump's baseless claim that troops from non-u.s. NATO countries avoided the frontline during the Afghanistan war. While not naming Trump, the Duke...

PLUS

Judge Melanie Poirier Leblanc refreshingly sounded like other long-suffering Canadians Monday. It wasn't the typical language of the bench, the whimsical more-enlightened-than-thou. Hammering the square peg of illogic into the round hole of...

GREEN DEAL?

ANOTHER MONSTER WALKS

‘HUAWEI 2.0’

HITTIN’ THE BOTTLE

The Ford government is going to great lengths to keep their secret booze tax hike secret. First proposed by the LCBO last fall as part of a review of taxes and fees, the tax hike would hit bars, restaurants and convenience stores hardest. This past...

BYE-BYE BO

It had the makings of one of the great moments in Canadian sports history, the visualization of a dream Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had shared since they were teenagers. Bottom of the third inning. Game 7 of the World Series. A packed house...

HIDDEN KILLER

Fentanyl has always been a killer, but this makes it an even more potent killer. Toronto Public Health is warning of a deadly new component being snuck into drugs and wreaking havoc. Drug users consuming fentanyl might not realize that the stuff...

‘WE HAVE TO FIGHT’

Not only do these Iraniancanadians want to make Iran great again, they want to make it free again. They want Iran to be free of radical Islamic rule, free from tyranny and the brutal foot of Shariah law, free for Iranians to wear what they want,...

BILLS WIN THRILLER

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Josh Allen took a pounding, doled out punishment and delivered Buffalo its first road playoff victory in more than three decades, 27-24 over Jacksonville in the AFC'S wild-card opener Sunday. With linebacker Devin Lloyd bearing...

ON THE MOVE?

Rob Manfred can't help but tinker with Major League Baseball — but that might not be a bad thing for the Blue Jays in the future. The MLB commissioner discussed the possibility of division realignment during an appearance on WFAN'S The Craig Carton...

OAK-AY BLUE JAYS!

The Blue Jays introduced their newest slugger, Kazuma Okamoto, to the Toronto media on Tuesday. Okamoto gave a brief and somewhat robotic statement introducing himself and thanking the Jays for the opportunity and promised to work hard. However, even...