Patients with ovarian cancer fight to fund a life-saving treatment
Surrounded by a supportive family, Toronto resident Gertrude Spatafora counts her blessings everyday.
“My family and just faith in God. I wake up for a new day, a new breath, and then try to make that day a positive day for somebody else in some way. And that’s what keeps me going,” she said.
Though it’s not easy.
Spatafora has been diagnosed with both Crohn’s disease and more recently ovarian cancer. The double diagnosis creates a treatment hurdle when it comes to
New York bakery featured in early ‘Sex and the City’ TV series to open locations in Ontario
Magnolia Bakery is coming to Canada, and Gen X is happy.
In Season 3, Episode 5 of the “Sex and the City” television series, which aired back in 2000, Carrie Bradshaw and Miranda Hobbes are sitting outside a bakery in New York City devouring pink-frosted vanilla cupcakes.
That shop is Magnolia Bakery and that one scene led fans of the show to walk in the two characters’ footsteps and sink their teeth into the buttercream-frosted cupcake.
The bakery, which first opened in
Hamilton teens charged in Facebook Marketplace counterfeit currency probe, $20K in fake money given: police
Maple Leafs’ Morgan Rielly submits 4-team trade list
A Morgan Rielly trade is inching closer to reality.
The Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman submitted a list of four teams to whom he’d be willing to move, Sportsnet confirmed on Wednesday.
All four teams are in the Western Conference, but the list could still expand, sources told Sportsnet.
Rielly, 32, has spent his entire career with the Maple Leafs since being selected fifth overall in the 2012 draft. He is entering Year 5 of an eight-year contract worth $7.5 million
‘Horrifying’: Data shows almost 400% increase in speeds since ASE cameras removed from city streets
Mayor Olivia Chow is calling for a return of speed cameras in school and community safety zones after a report found a significant spike in speeding in those areas since the province banned the devices.
The city began employing Automated Speed Enforcement cameras in 2020 to reduce speeding and improve road safety, and in 2025, a study showed it had a measurable effect on driving habits and by the end of that year, the city saw its fewest fatalities and serious injuries since the beginning of the Vision Zero program
Employee at Oshawa group home accused of sexually assaulting boy multiple times
Durham Regional Police have charged an employee at a group home in Oshawa after she allegedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy on multiple occasions.
The investigation began in February 2026, after the allegations surfaced.
“Further investigation revealed that between September 2025 and January 2026 the suspect engaged the victim in a sexual relationship,” a police release states.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.
Shari Shoshana McGregor, 30
Homes under $500,000 account for growing proportion of Ontario real estate: report
PICKERING — A new report says homes valued under $500,000 are taking up a bigger share of Ontario’s real estate landscape, led by a shift in the condominium market.
New data released by the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. showed those lower-valued homes now account for nearly 24 per cent of Ontario’s real estate market, up from 17 per cent in 2022.
Despite that improvement, which MPAC said signals “a rebalancing in the housing market,
Charlie Brown’s longtime pen pal is finally revealed in new Apple TV ‘Peanuts’ movie
NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Brown began writing to a pen pal not long after the comic strip “Peanuts” debuted in newspapers back in 1950. No one has gotten a look at whoever was on the other end of his letters — until now.
Her name is Mia, and she’s a young girl from London of South Asian descent who uses a wheelchair. She glides into the spotlight in the animated movie “Snoopy Unleashed,” coming to Apple TV in 2027,
Man accused in Toronto gold heist gets 13 years in U.S. prison for gun running
U.S. authorities say one of the suspects in the massive gold and cash heist from Toronto’s Pearson airport has been sentenced to 13 years in a federal American prison after attempting to smuggle handguns into Canada.
The United States Attorney’s Office says 27-year-old Durante King-Mclean, who had been staying in Florida, pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to traffic firearms.
The attorney’s office says Pennsylvania state police troopers arrested the man in September 2023 as he