TORONTO — BMO Financial Group says it signed an agreement with U.S.-based Stonepeak for the sale of the bank’s transportation and vendor finance businesses.

BMO says its transportation finance business provides specialized financing for trucks and trailers while its vendor finance business offers equipment financing through original equipment manufacturers and dealer networks.

The combined loan and lease portfolios for the businesses in the U.S. and Canada totalled around $14.5 billion as of March 31.

Under the terms of the agreement, Stonepeak

MIAMI (AP) — Two South Florida police officers claim and ‘s recent action thriller used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers’ personal and professional reputations, according to a defamation lawsuit.

Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, sergeants in the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, filed the lawsuit in Miami federal court earlier this month against , a film production company owned by Affleck and Damon. Court filings don’t say how much the officers are suing for, but

Toronto police have arrested a 45-year-old man who is accused of vandalizing a North York church on four separate occasions.

Sohrab Mehmandoust was arrested on May 5 and charged with four counts of mischief related to religious property.

Authorities say he attended a church multiple times in the Don Mills Road and Fairview Mall Drive area between August 6, 2025 and May 5, 2026.

“On each occasion, the accused damaged the outer glass doors of the church before fleeing the area,

A teenager has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with an Oshawa homicide investigation.

Police were called to a Tim Horton’s location at 2700 Simcoe Street North just after 8 p.m. on Saturday for reports of an armed person.

When officers arrived, they found a 23-year-old man suffering from “traumatic injuries.” He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say two groups of men engaged in a physical altercation outside the coffee shop.

“During that

TORONTO — Canada’s largest private sector union says it will kick off negotiations with the Detroit Three automakers by targeting Ford Motor Co. first.

Unifor, which typically uses pattern bargaining for its auto sector negotiations, says talks with Ford will begin on June 22.

The union represents about 5,000 workers across Ford facilities in Canada.

Unifor says part of the reason why it decided to start negotiations with Ford first is because it has a long-standing and productive working relationship with the company.

Negotiations

Shane Doan is a free agent.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have let the special advisor to the general manager out of his contract, Sportsnet confirmed on Monday.

Doan, a longtime NHL forward, was hired by former GM Brad Treliving three years ago. He previously spent two years in the Arizona Coyotes front office, where he worked alongside new Maple Leafs GM John Chayka, who was GM of the Coyotes from 2016 through 2020, including Doan’s final season in the desert.

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A Markham sports coach previously charged in a series of historical sexual offences involving youth has been arrested again, this time accused of breaching strict release conditions imposed on him.

York Regional Police (YRP) say Garth Morris, 59, of Markham, was charged with three counts of failing to comply with a judicial release order after investigators learned he had continued coaching youth despite being prohibited from having contact with anyone under 16 or attending schools, parks, or community centres.

Morris was first charged in June 202

A husband and wife from Brampton are facing charges after allegedly pulling off a series of bank frauds that resulted in nearly $90,000 in financial losses.

The suspects are accused of using fake credit cards, drivers’ licences, immigration documents and birth certificates to open personal and business bank accounts under false names.

“In a separate incident, the husband is alleged to have impersonated a legitimate bank client to open new accounts, obtain debit cards, and withdraw funds from multiple bank branches before the fraud was