Jamaican-American reggae star Shaggy, Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco and homegrown hall-of-famer Tom Cochrane are among the artists set to play the Canadian National Exhibition’s concert series this year.

Organizers of the annual end-of-summer event at Toronto’s Exhibition Place announced the first wave of headliners at the CNE, beginning with Fiasco on Aug. 21.

He’ll be followed by “It Wasn’t Me” singer Shaggy on Aug.23 and “Life Is a Highway”

A man has been killed in a daytime shooting in North York’s Wenderly Park Thursday.

Officers were called to Marlee and Glengrove avenues around 12:25 p.m. for reports of a shooting.

The victim, an adult male, was located with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene.

A suspect, a man in his 60s, was arrested nearby. Toronto police Insp. Peter Wallace says they believe this was an isolated incident, but would not comment when asked if

A judge has granted an injunction ordering an Alberta separatist group to remove from its website a database of private information – including names and addresses — of close to three million provincial voters.

The Edmonton judge granted the injunction Thursday morning at the request of Elections Alberta, which is investigating how the list was obtained by the separatist group and if it was illegal.

Joey Redman, a lawyer for the elections agency, told Court of King’s Bench Justice John Little the information on the list, and therefore in the database,

MONTREAL — Canadian officials turned away a Brazilian woman at border crossings three times in the days before she got lost in the woods and died of hypothermia near the U.S. border in 2024.

The 36-year-old woman likely died around Jan. 15, 2024, after entering Canada through a forested area near Coaticook, Que., and spending an extended period of time outdoors, according to the April 15 report that was signed by Quebec coroner Donald Nicole.

WASHINGTON — United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Canadians looking for insights into the future of bilateral trade this week that “America First” is policy, not a slogan, and they should not expect a return to the way things were.

Sources who attended a roundtable with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade czar in Washington on Wednesday told The Canadian Press that Greer was measured and pragmatic as he laid out the administration’s policy goals ahead of the coming review of the Canada-U.S.

Police in York Region are searching for multiple suspects in connection with a home invasion in Richmond Hill .

Investigators allege three people forced their way into a residence by smashing a window in the Hyde Park Drive and Red Oak Drive area just before 4:30 a.m. on April 28.

Once inside, police say the trio were confronted by the homeowner, who was then assaulted. They were later treated for minor injuries.

Police say no demands were made by the suspects, who fled the home in a

After the historic Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) closed all its locations across Canada in June 2025, the massive voids those stores have left in retails spaces pose a challenge for commercial landlords.

In many instances, The Bay was the “anchor tenant” – the primary draw bringing customers through the doors. With consumer habits trending more towards online shopping, retail analysts have speculated that the appetite for giant retail stores no longer exists.

A proposal to convert the former Hudson’s Bay location on Bay

LONDON (AP) — Elusive street artist Banksy said Thursday that a new sculpture that appeared in central London of a man striding off a plinth, with his face blinded by a billowing flag, is his work.

In a humorous video posted Thursday on his Instagram account, Banksy showed snippets of how the sculpture was put up in the dead of night. The sculpture appeared to have been erected in the early hours of Wednesday on a plinth on a traffic island in Waterloo Place, near Buckingham Palace.

Before the artist’

A flotilla organizer from Montreal says two Canadians were detained by Israel after the boats they were sailing on were intercepted overnight during a mission to break the nearly 20-year naval blockade of Gaza.

The Global Sumud Flotilla identified the Canadians as Marie Tota and Umir Tiar.

Organizer Ehab Lotayef spoke to The Canadian Press from Sicily after the interception disrupted plans for him and five other Canadians to set sail and join the flotilla, which launched from Barcelona earlier this month.

He says 22 boats were intercepted west of the Greek