Toronto Sun

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,...

PM bets on defence, but SOD\V ZLWK ÀUH ZLWK QHZ WUDGH EORF:

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...

POURING IT ON

OTTAWA — It'll soon be last call for Crown Royal in Ontario. Telling reporters he intends to follow through on previously-made threats to remove the whiskey from store shelves in the province, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday he “can't...

CHEQUE, PLEASE?

A private security company that has won more than $40 million in contracts from city hall since 2020 did not pay its Toronto staff for December, employees have told the Toronto Sun. The company, One Community Solutions, sends squads of private guards...

BAD BOY BAGGED

U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise military intervention in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and transporting them to the U.S. where they will face charges in New York of narcoterrorism conspiracy and other crimes is the...

NEED MORE FROM 34

More of that, please, Auston Matthews. Much more of that. Put the Maple Leafs on your back, as you did on Thursday night against the Winnipeg Jets, and take them on a ride that will hopefully result in a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. With...

DO YOUR JOBS!

OTTAWA — With Toronto's Jewish community enduring years of harassment and hate from anti-israel protesters, Ontario's solicitor general is demanding Toronto Police take action. In a letter sent Tuesday to Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw and Police...

Don’t be fooled, crime in T.O. is actually way up:

There is a push to convince the public that crime is down and that things are not as bad as you think. Don't fall for it. Over the past several weeks, we've heard from police, politicians, and even a screaming headline in the Toronto Star that crime is...

THE BIG E’S BIG ASSIST

In his playing days, you could always count on Eric Lindros to jump over the boards to change the fortunes of a tough game. So, No. 88's decision to step up to help save the Weston Lions Arena as we know it is not only appreciated but could not have...

CARNEY COMES CLEAN

After years of nonsense spouted by Canada's Liberal government, Prime Minister Mark Carney admitted in year-end interviews with the CBC that “Canada is not going to reach our 2030 and 2035 climate targets” under former PM Justin Trudeau's climate...

FOREVER ‘IN OUR HEARTS’

Maple Leafs enter Christmas break with much-needed win over Pens

Max Domi gave Leafs Nation some Christmas cheer on Tuesday. And boy, did the ardent fans of the blue and white ever need it, never mind the relief felt by the team. Domi scored a highlight-reel goal and William Nylander had a seasonhigh four points...

NAUGHTY & NICE

On their way to an exhilarating October run that took them to Game 7 of the World Series and the brink of an incredible and unlikely championship, the Blue Jays were undeniably Canada's team. Coast-to-coast audiences united in supporting the success...

‘ISN’T SAFE’

OTTAWA — They aren't buying it. That's the response from Toronto's Jewish community to a tweet Friday from Toronto Police, assuring the city's Jewish community — reeling from years of harassment, abuse and assault from Islamist and far-left radicals —...

LIVING IN FEAR

Imagine if Jews across Canada were marching into Muslim neighbourhoods blaming them for the thousands of deaths caused by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist groups in Israel and around the world. Imagine if our excuse was that we had nothing against...

T.O. TERROR DISCIPLES?

An investigation into the attempted abductions of women led police to charge one of the three accused with alleged terror offences. In a joint video statement released Friday, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan...

CASH ’N’ BASH

The way this senior citizen was viciously mugged at his money exchange business looked like something out of Pulp Fiction. But this was Erin Mills in Mississauga. Certainly not the Erin Mills the late great mayor Hazel Mccallion thought would be the...