FIFA unveils 2026 World Cup matches for Toronto, Vancouver
Germany, Belgium and Croatia are among the teams that will play games in Canada in group play at next summer’s FIFA World Cup. The full schedule of the expanded 48-team, 104-game tournament was announced Saturday in Washington D.C. Canada is staging 13...
Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll expected to miss a week with lower-body injury
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ precarious goalie situation has gone from bad to worse. Goaltender Joseph Woll was placed on injured reserve retroactive to Dec. 4 with a lower-body injury, the Maple Leafs announced Saturday. Artur Akhtyamov was recalled from the...
Messi, Inter Miami beat Vancouver Whitecaps to win first MLS Cup
Inter Miami has won its first-ever MLS Cup. Tadeo Allende’s goal in the 96th minute sealed the result in Miami’s 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps in Major League Soccer’s championship game on Saturday. The matchup had been billed as...
Potential Canada-Italy World Cup game in Toronto would be ‘electric,’ fans say
The draw for next summer’s World Cup has opened the possibility that Canada will face Italy in its June 12 opener in Toronto, and hopes in the city’s Little Italy neighbourhood are running high. The Canadian men’s soccer team drew...
Michael Annett, who made 436 combined starts in NASCAR’s 3 national touring series, dies at...
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Annett, a former racecar driver who made 436 combined starts in NASCAR’s three national touring series, has died. He was 39. JR Motorsports, one of Annett’s former teams, posted the news on social media on...
Hard launch? Katy Perry goes Instagram official with Justin Trudeau
Katy Perry is going Instagram official with former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The American pop star shared a series of romantic photos and videos to social media on Saturday from the couple’s recent trip to Japan. “Tokyo times on tour...
Man in his 30s stabbed near Eglinton West: Toronto police
Toronto police are investigating after a man in his 30s was stabbed in the city’s Oakwood Village neighbourhood early Saturday morning. According to authorities, the stabbing happened near Eglinton Avenue and Glenholme Avenue just after 2:30 a.m. The male victim...
First military procurements managed by Defence Investment Agency revealed
OTTAWA — The federal government has disclosed the first eight projects to be managed by the new Defence Investment Agency. The large military procurements include Canada’s next fleet of submarines, Arctic over-the-horizon radar, and a fleet of early warning-and-control surveillance...
High school student, 18, charged with arson in fire that burned New York City subway...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City high school senior was jailed Friday on a federal arson charge after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger. Hiram Carrero, 18, was not required to...
Search for grizzly behind ‘extraordinary attack’ on B.C. school group is called off
Conservation officers in British Columbia are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for last month’s “extraordinary attack” on a group of schoolchildren and teachers that left four with severe injuries. A statement from the B.C. Conservation...
