The good ol’ hockey game is about to come back, with the NHL set to confirm its choices of Toronto and Edmonton as its two hub cities where it will house players, teams and staff as it gets set to resume the season and hold the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Bryan Campbell saw his life flash before his eyes when he slipped off an unfamiliar trail and ricocheted “like a sack of potatoes” off large boulders

The new offer to buy Torstar is $6 million more than the bid by Toronto entrepreneurs Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett. New bidders have until 5 p.m. Friday to formalize the offer

Postmedia quarterly revenue down more than 25% amid COVID-19 advertising pullback

Ontario effort to scrap streaming begins with math courses in 2021: Lecce

Quebec to impose more restrictions on bars to slow COVID-19 spread: sources

Torstar confirms it has received second offer for the newspaper chain

New policy group says more than half of Canadians have experienced a cyber crime

The team behind the new proposal includes brothers Matthew and Tyler Proud. Sources say financial industry veteran Neil Selfe is also involved

Toronto authorities cracking down on illegal beach parties, restricting parking

Like many other area youngsters he caught the theatre bug there, writes Gary Smith.

Pride Month may be over, but there are always ways to celebrate and support the LGBTQ2+ community year-round.

Watch Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s daily news conference on the coronavirus in Ontario and the government’s response.

42-year-old man shot by police in Hamilton dies in hospital, watchdog says

The 42-year-old was shot after call for a domestic incident involving a suspect with a gun

With home prices in Burlington consistently outpacing the rest of the area, it’s no surprise two homes there were in the top three.

Young, BIPOC Canadians face biggest financial setbacks from COVID-19

The Hamilton Conservation Authority’s beaches are enjoying an unprecedented hot streak to match the weather, having already reached capacity seven times in the first week of July.

Quebec to impose more restrictions on bars to slow COVID-19 spread: sources

Major League Soccer recorded four more positive COVID-19 tests over the last two days at the MLS is Back Tournament in Florida.

Financial sector weighs on Toronto market, U.S. stock markets mixed

A COVID-19 testing blitz of farm workers in Windsor-Essex is accounting for half the number of new cases in Ontario.

Ontario government extends emergency orders for COVID-19 pandemic

The two-year pilot program could include installing cameras in high priority parks.

Financial sector weighs on Toronto market, U.S. stock markets mixed

Financial check ups more important than ever during turbulent times like these

CMHC reports annual pace of housing starts in Canada increased in June

Spectator readers share photos of their furry friends during the COVID-19 pandemic

As Premier Doug Ford moves to give the Progressive Conservative government more permanent powers, he has extended Ontario’s temporary COVID-19 emergency orders until July 22.

Temperatures are set to spike Thursday, potentially breaking heat records as the daily high is expected to peak around 42 C with the humidex.

Ontario government extends emergency orders for COVID-19 pandemic

55-year-old cyclist dead after Wednesday night hit-and-run in Mississauga, Ont.

‘There is no cause for alarm,’ city official says, but environmental advocate wants more information

Parties call on Premier Ford to mandate air conditioning in long-term care homes

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.

Our DNA is arguably the most powerful forensic investigative tool, and it is about to become even more powerful. The Spectator’s Susan Clairmont explo

Masks in indoor spaces could be mandatory in Hamilton as early as July 20

‘If it were a white person in the car, I don’t think this would have happened’

Shaun 'Sandy' Mullen disappeared on April 19, 2018 after taking a taxi to his Parry Sound apartment.

The chair of Toronto’s Board of Health is urging the province to take swift action to fight COVID-19 in the city’s northwest corner, which has been hardest hit by the virus, and bridge the stark socioeconomic divide that is putting residents in these neighbourhoods at risk.

In Toronto’s downtown Annex neighbourhood, Madeline Jarvis-Cross is sweltering in a third-floor apartment.

Town hall on police reform begins today at Toronto police board meeting

Federal website advertising hundreds of non-existent student-volunteer positions

Calls grow for news outlets reporting on systemic racism to address own failures

A 13-day delay, the likes of which Hamiltonians are facing, prompted the premier to say ‘something’s wrong’ Wednesday. But it’s unclear what exactly i

Three players who have tested positive for the coronavirus but are no longer symptomatic will play together at the Workday Charity Open, the PGA Tour announced Wednesday in the latest revision of its COVID-19 policies.

We knew it would be big and it is: $343.2 billion.

Police in Kingston, Ont., seek rightful owner of two stolen Bibles

Ontario expected to extend state of emergency to cover gap with new bill

Ontario overestimated costs of services to irregular border crossers: auditor