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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...

THAT'S A RAP!

It's official: Kyle Lowry's No. 7 is going up to the rafters at Scotiabank Arena. Lowry, the Toronto Raptors legend, announced his retirement from the NBA on Tuesday morning, signing a one-day contract with the Raptors, as he had long said he...

END OF HIS WORLD

ARLINGTON — Substitute Mikel Merino scored a late winner to put Spain in the quarterfinals with a 1-0 victory over Portugal and end Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup career on Monday. The European champions will face the United States — the only one of...

MR. SUB

Prime Minister Mark Carney will stop in Halifax on Monday for an announcement about making Canada “more secure, resilient, and prosperous.” He will visit Canadian Forces Base Halifax, home to the Royal Canadian Navy, alongside Viceadmiral Dan...

AGONY OF DEFEAT

They began as a host nation among the largest World Cup ever, a tournament bursting with 48 countries, and resolutely determined to make an impact on their sport like never before. The magical run for Canada was brought to a halt on Saturday afternoon...

LIFE FOR KILLER COUPLE

A Burlington couple convicted of first-degree murder in the horrific abuse of their adopted son were sentenced to life in prison Friday. Numerous victim impact statements left the Milton courtroom in tears as twisted Becky Hamber, 47, and Brandy...

RONALDO!

For the better part of two days, the impassioned fans of his sport and his country paid homage to Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the best to ever do it. It was like Toronto was Madeira, the extent of the love-in that stopped traffic in the city and turned...

BUDS BAG BOB

The Sergei Bobrovsky era in Toronto is about to begin. The Maple Leafs on Wednesday signed the veteran goaltender to a three-year contract, with an average annual value of $7 million US, as free agency opened in the National Hockey League. “Sergei's...

Bradford would rename Sankofa Square if elected mayor

The first shot in the upcoming battle for a dilapidated section of the city rang out loud and clear. On Monday morning, Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford proposed renaming Sankofa Square to “Toronto Square.” “For a generation, this was the...

SWEET 16

They came here to Southern California, booted out of their own country despite being a World Cup host, but still driven to make a statement in the most important moment of their careers. They came ultimately to add to the history they've already made...

GAVIN HAVIN' A BALL

Good news if you were one of the fans wearing a Gavin Mckenna Maple Leafs jersey at the National Hockey League draft in Buffalo on Friday. You're not going to have to make any changes to it. Mckenna will be the third Leafs player to wear No. 72,...

GOT HIM!

FOOD FRAUD

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is abuzz about the country's food fraud. The CFIA, in its latest annual report on food fraud, says it stopped more than 150,000 kilograms “of misrepresented food from being sold in Canada,” including a whopping...

`COURAGE'

SMUT NUT?

`IT'S A NIGHTMARE'

MONTREAL — A civilian, a police officer and a suspect were killed Monday when a gunman opened fire outside a busy hotel in Montreal's Cote-desneiges neighbourhood. During an afternoon news conference, Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher said police got...

HIP HIP HOORAY

It's hard to believe it's been a decade since The Tragically Hip said goodbye to the country with their 2016 farewell tour before frontman Gord Downie's untimely death at the age of 53 from a brain tumour in 2017. The band's final show of that...

MONEY PIT

When Federal Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-masty announced $4.6 billion in new funding to eliminate all long-term unsafe drinking water advisories on reserves, she refused to set a deadline for when that will happen. “The deadline goal is...

`GROSS, DISGUSTING'

In the end, disgraced auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach, with all his wealth and power, couldn't escape the reckoning that has come decades after his “gross and disgusting” behaviour as an entitled serial womanizer. But while the married...

`URGE TO KILL'

The 14-year-old Pickering teen was obsessed with serial killers and told his gaming friend that unlike his heroes, he wouldn't get caught. Thankfully, he was wrong — but not before he took the life of a stranger who was simply outside raking...

JUST HORRIFYING

YOUNG GUNS

Toronto Police acknowledge a murky criminal network is paying young people to create terror in the city by shooting up political and religious targets. Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said this deadly “shooting-forhire” enterprise that led to the...

NO KIDDING

The province's Special Investigations Unit has been called in after a youth — allegedly behind the wheel of a stolen car — ran down and seriously injured a Toronto Police officer in the city's east end on Monday. That suspect, who police say was 12...

A DON DEAL?

An agreement to end fighting between the United States and Iran is “now complete,” according to Donald Trump, with an Iranian diplomat and key mediator Pakistan backing those assertions. Trump announced what he said was the completion of the deal on...

`GUT PUNCH'

David Wilcox belongs on the Toronto Fallen Firefighter Memorial. Of course, if Wilcox had his way, he'd still be at work, knocking down fires and driving big red trucks for the City of Toronto well into his 60s. That's the sort of firefighter he was....

FAST ON THE DRAW

Anyone tuning into Canada's first 2026 FIFA World Cup match Friday afternoon at Toronto Stadium (BMO Field) would have no problem knowing the location thanks to an opening ceremony drenched in red and white colours. After Aboriginal dancers and a land...

`HEAVY SORROW'

WHAT IN THE WORLD?

A soccer referee invited to work in Toronto at the World Cup by Mayor Olivia Chow was reportedly denied entry by American authorities due to “association with suspected members of terror organizations,” U.S. news outlets reported Wednesday. While U.S....

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