Gavin McKenna saw the video evidence pretty quickly.

The Maple Leafs beat the odds last month to win the NHL’s draft lottery and secure the first overall pick.

The Buffalo Sabres — this year’s event hosts — opened their second-round playoff series with the Montreal Canadiens one day after the ping-pong balls fell in Toronto’s favour.

An excited Maple Leafs fan, meanwhile, had already secured a blue-and-white McKenna jersey with his familiar No. 72 splashed across the back,

A more than 100-page manifesto filled with misogynistic and anti-police rhetoric was found in the hours after an Alberta man opened fire in a Montreal neighbourhood. Three people were killed, including an officer, the shooter and a civilian caught in the cross-fire.

This isn’t the first Canadian shooting attack rooted in misogynistic ideology, it succeeds the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting rampage, the 1989 Polytechnique shooting in Montreal.

Host Caryn Ceolin speaks to journalist and author, Elizabeth

Michael J. Fox wears his Order of Canada pin everywhere.

He wears the little white pin on talk shows; he wears it to meet up with friends — his fellow Canadian New Yorkers Martin Short and Lorne Michaels make sure of it, he quips. And he wore it when he accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency.

“My intrinsic Canadianism is a bigger part of me than my relationship with the States,” he says on a video call from New York,

Toronto is hosting its last group stage match of the FIFA World Cup today, capping off the first half of a tournament that local officials say has brought out the city’s charms.

Fans are expected to pack Toronto Stadium this afternoon to watch Senegal and Iraq face off, with both teams clinging to faint hopes of reaching the knockout round.

City officials have said Toronto has “truly welcomed the world” during the international soccer competition, and visitors have shared stories online highlighting the warmth, diversity and hospitality they experienced.

Police say they are investigating a suspicious house fire that happened early Friday morning in Kleinburg.

Emergency responders were called to an unoccupied home in the Nashville and Huntington roads area, near Highway 27 and Major MacKenzie Drive West, around 2:30 a.m.

Police say at least two suspects were seen fleeing the home in a vehicle after the fire.

No injuries were reported.

The Ontario Fire Marshal has been notified.

Police in York Region are investigating a possible link between two overnight shootings, one in Markham and another in Aurora.

The first shooting happened at a home on Lee Avenue in Markham, near Kennedy Road and 14th Avenue. Emergency crews were called to the scene just after 1:30 a.m. on Friday.

Police say a suspect or suspects fired shots into the residence. No injuries were reported.

TORONTO — The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and real estate group Lendlease have signed a deal to sell their Elephant Park residential portfolio in London to Greystar.

CPP Investments is expected to receive C$670 million in net proceeds under the deal for the 904-home portfolio.

Lendlease, an Australian firm, is expect to receive A$260 million.

Since CPP Investments’ and Lendlease’s initial investment in 2015 through their build-to-rent partnership, they have built

TORONTO — A Scandinavian home goods brand is gliding into Canada and if it picks up enough momentum, retail experts say competitors will have reason to worry.

Flying Tiger Copenhagen is a Danish retailer that has edged into 44 global markets over the last 31 years by selling dish towels in fruit motifs, animal-shaped erasers and jewelry boxes resembling fancy sofas for low prices.

Canada will become the 45th market, when the brand opens its first store here on Friday at the Eaton Centre in Toronto. At least

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce the government’s plan to “restore” 24 Sussex today.

The 35-room mansion, built in 1896, was abandoned as the official Ottawa residence of the prime minister in 2015.

Taxpayers have since been shelling out tens of thousands of dollars per year to maintain the vacant property.

Heritage Ottawa has said that the building should be maintained, renewed and kept in public hands, even if it’s no longer the official residence