Anvi Ahuja noticed a “freaky” new text message from a number she didn’t know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she’d just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend’s place. “I was like ‘who is tapping…
Brenndon Goodman was nine years old when a doctor told him he would be dead by 30 if he couldn’t get his weight under control. “You’re going through all the issues a normal nine-year-old goes through. On top of that, also being told you’re overweight, you’re an aberration. For me, I felt like I was…
Erik Soby thought he had a shot at getting into medical school last year. The Torontonian scored high on the standard Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and had an impressive grade point average. But most medical schools in Canada now require another admissions test — called the Casper — and Soby believes that hurdle was…
Kyle Connor and Cole Perfetti scored in the shootout, and the Winnipeg Jets clinched the franchise’s first Central Division title and the No. 1 seed for the Western Conference playoffs with a wild 5-4 victory over Chicago on Saturday night. Winnipeg won for the fourth time in five games. It went 26-15-0 on the road…
Amid unprecedented trade turmoil, Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives are keen to cut red tape in the provincial economy with Premier Doug Ford and his finance minister signalling that permits, and their bureaucratic hurdles, have fallen squarely in their sights. During a recent visit to Orillia, Ont., Ford spoke about the impact “the red tape, the…
Defenders Lee Stecklein and Megan Keller scored for the United States in a 2-1 win over Canada at the women’s world hockey championship Sunday in Ceske Budejovic, Czech Republic. The U.S. (3-0) secured first in Pool A with a game remaining against Switzerland on Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET. Canada (2-1) concludes Pool A against…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday bore down on his administration’s latest message that the exclusion of smartphones and computers from his “reciprocal” tariffs on China will be short-lived, pledging a national security trade investigation into the semiconductor sector. Those electronics “are just moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket,’” Trump said in a social media…
Olympic champion Lukas Martens of Germany has broken the men’s 400-metre freestyle record at the Swim Open Stockholm. German clocks 3:39.96 to break compatriot Paul Biedermann’s mark from 2009 The Associated Press · Posted: Apr 13, 2025 9:41 AM EDT | Last Updated: April 13 Germany’s Lukas Martens, pictured at Paris 2024, became the first swimmer…
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A search and rescue team in Kelowna, B.C., says a missing person was found dead on Saturday, about 155 feet (47 metres) deep in a lake, after being swept away in a “massive mudslide” earlier this month. Central Okanagan Emergency Operations said the landslide happened on Westside Road at about 9:45 p.m. PT on April 1,…