Toronto’s booming pickleball community has a major new home.

Mayor Olivia Chow officially opened the City’s newest purpose‑built pickleball complex Friday morning, serving up the first ball at the Main Sewage Treatment Playground , a 25,000‑square‑foot facility designed to meet surging demand for accessible outdoor recreation.

The new complex features 11 dedicated pickleball courts, all wheelchair‑accessible, along with a new shade structure, bleacher seating with accessible benches, upgraded fencing and entry gates, and colour

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a multi-billion-dollar contract to replace Canada’s submarine fleet will be awarded to Germany and Norway, marking the largest contract of its kind in Canadian history. The choice though, goes beyond the subs themselves and sends broader signals to who Carney is eyeing to create lasting trade relations with.

Host Caryn Ceolin is speaking with journalist David Pugliese about why the fleet needs updating, what the decision could signal for Canada’s relationship with the Indo-Pacific, and what these new subs

A Mississauga MiWay bus driver has been found not guilty in connection to a crash that killed a 50-year-old woman back in 2023.

Baljeet Dhaliwal had been charged with dangerous driving causing death in the crash that saw the MiWay bus she was driving crash into the back of Sharron Williams’ car as she sat stopped at the red light at the intersection of Derry Road and Rexwood Road.

Her car was then pushed into several other vehicles ahead of her.

The crash also injured eight other people

York Regional Police (YRP) are asking for the public’s help identifying a man wanted in connection with two hate‑motivated assaults that occurred days apart in Vaughan, with investigators saying both victims were targeted because of their country of origin.

Police say the first incident happened on June 9 at around 8:45 p.m. in the area of Major Mackenzie Drive West and Amusement Drive. According to investigators, a man approached the victim, made a racial comment, then assaulted them before fleeing on foot

Friends, family and colleagues are mourning a Durham police constable-in-training who was killed in a car crash earlier this week , remembering the recruit as a selfless and compassionate person whose loss has left the community reeling.

The constable-in-training, identified as 27-year-old Tyrone Magbitang, died after a single‑vehicle collision at the Township of Malahide intersection of College Line and Imperial Road on Tuesday, authorities confirmed. The force has described the loss as devastating and said investigators are continuing to

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. reported its second-quarter box office revenue totalled $55.8 million, up from $51.8 million a year earlier, helped by the opening of “Toy Story 5.”

The movie theatre company says the latest offering of the Toy Story franchise posted the largest domestic opening weekend of 2026 so far.

Cineplex says the results were also boosted by “Scary Movie” which posted the largest opening weekend in its franchise’s history and Steven Spielberg’s

NEWMARKET — When Newmarket Mayor John Taylor appointed a few dozen people to serve as positivity ambassadors in the southern Ontario town during the COVID-19 pandemic, he wanted someone at the centre of the effort.

Longtime customer service supervisor Jamie Boyle took on the new role of chief positivity officer with aplomb.

And he didn’t stop when the pandemic ended.

“Jamie’s level of enthusiasm, positivity and just go out there and take on the world attitude is almost without parallel, and it’s infectious,

An Ontario man convicted in the United States of running a drug-trafficking operation across the border into Canada has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Guramrit Sidhu of Brampton, Ont., pleaded guilty earlier this year to leading a drug ring from September 2020 to February 2023.

A California court heard that between September and October 2022, more than 500 kilograms of methamphetamine and nearly 350 kilograms of cocaine were brought from the U.S. into

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is set to publish fresh jobs data for June this morning.

A Reuters poll of economists is expecting Canada added 10,000 jobs last month, enough to keep the unemployment rate steady at 6.6 per cent.

RBC is right in line with the consensus forecast but economists there note that the labour market has been volatile lately.

Statistics Canada’s May employment report showed an unexpected gain of 88,000 jobs in the month, partially offsetting job losses over the