Toronto Sun

Fighting words

Prince Harry has joined U.K. veterans and politicians voicing their outrage after U.S. President Donald Trump's baseless claim that troops from non-u.s. NATO countries avoided the frontline during the Afghanistan war. While not naming Trump, the Duke...

PLUS

Judge Melanie Poirier Leblanc refreshingly sounded like other long-suffering Canadians Monday. It wasn't the typical language of the bench, the whimsical more-enlightened-than-thou. Hammering the square peg of illogic into the round hole of...

GREEN DEAL?

ANOTHER MONSTER WALKS

‘HUAWEI 2.0’

HITTIN’ THE BOTTLE

The Ford government is going to great lengths to keep their secret booze tax hike secret. First proposed by the LCBO last fall as part of a review of taxes and fees, the tax hike would hit bars, restaurants and convenience stores hardest. This past...

BYE-BYE BO

It had the makings of one of the great moments in Canadian sports history, the visualization of a dream Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had shared since they were teenagers. Bottom of the third inning. Game 7 of the World Series. A packed house...

HIDDEN KILLER

Fentanyl has always been a killer, but this makes it an even more potent killer. Toronto Public Health is warning of a deadly new component being snuck into drugs and wreaking havoc. Drug users consuming fentanyl might not realize that the stuff...

‘WE HAVE TO FIGHT’

Not only do these Iraniancanadians want to make Iran great again, they want to make it free again. They want Iran to be free of radical Islamic rule, free from tyranny and the brutal foot of Shariah law, free for Iranians to wear what they want,...

BILLS WIN THRILLER

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Josh Allen took a pounding, doled out punishment and delivered Buffalo its first road playoff victory in more than three decades, 27-24 over Jacksonville in the AFC'S wild-card opener Sunday. With linebacker Devin Lloyd bearing...

ON THE MOVE?

Rob Manfred can't help but tinker with Major League Baseball — but that might not be a bad thing for the Blue Jays in the future. The MLB commissioner discussed the possibility of division realignment during an appearance on WFAN'S The Craig Carton...

OAK-AY BLUE JAYS!

The Blue Jays introduced their newest slugger, Kazuma Okamoto, to the Toronto media on Tuesday. Okamoto gave a brief and somewhat robotic statement introducing himself and thanking the Jays for the opportunity and promised to work hard. However, even...

POURING IT ON

OTTAWA — It'll soon be last call for Crown Royal in Ontario. Telling reporters he intends to follow through on previously-made threats to remove the whiskey from store shelves in the province, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday he “can't...

CHEQUE, PLEASE?

A private security company that has won more than $40 million in contracts from city hall since 2020 did not pay its Toronto staff for December, employees have told the Toronto Sun. The company, One Community Solutions, sends squads of private guards...

BAD BOY BAGGED

U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise military intervention in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and transporting them to the U.S. where they will face charges in New York of narcoterrorism conspiracy and other crimes is the...

NEED MORE FROM 34

More of that, please, Auston Matthews. Much more of that. Put the Maple Leafs on your back, as you did on Thursday night against the Winnipeg Jets, and take them on a ride that will hopefully result in a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. With...

DO YOUR JOBS!

OTTAWA — With Toronto's Jewish community enduring years of harassment and hate from anti-israel protesters, Ontario's solicitor general is demanding Toronto Police take action. In a letter sent Tuesday to Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw and Police...

Don’t be fooled, crime in T.O. is actually way up:

There is a push to convince the public that crime is down and that things are not as bad as you think. Don't fall for it. Over the past several weeks, we've heard from police, politicians, and even a screaming headline in the Toronto Star that crime is...

THE BIG E’S BIG ASSIST

In his playing days, you could always count on Eric Lindros to jump over the boards to change the fortunes of a tough game. So, No. 88's decision to step up to help save the Weston Lions Arena as we know it is not only appreciated but could not have...

CARNEY COMES CLEAN

After years of nonsense spouted by Canada's Liberal government, Prime Minister Mark Carney admitted in year-end interviews with the CBC that “Canada is not going to reach our 2030 and 2035 climate targets” under former PM Justin Trudeau's climate...

FOREVER ‘IN OUR HEARTS’

Maple Leafs enter Christmas break with much-needed win over Pens

Max Domi gave Leafs Nation some Christmas cheer on Tuesday. And boy, did the ardent fans of the blue and white ever need it, never mind the relief felt by the team. Domi scored a highlight-reel goal and William Nylander had a seasonhigh four points...

NAUGHTY & NICE

On their way to an exhilarating October run that took them to Game 7 of the World Series and the brink of an incredible and unlikely championship, the Blue Jays were undeniably Canada's team. Coast-to-coast audiences united in supporting the success...

‘ISN’T SAFE’

OTTAWA — They aren't buying it. That's the response from Toronto's Jewish community to a tweet Friday from Toronto Police, assuring the city's Jewish community — reeling from years of harassment, abuse and assault from Islamist and far-left radicals —...

LIVING IN FEAR

Imagine if Jews across Canada were marching into Muslim neighbourhoods blaming them for the thousands of deaths caused by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist groups in Israel and around the world. Imagine if our excuse was that we had nothing against...

T.O. TERROR DISCIPLES?

An investigation into the attempted abductions of women led police to charge one of the three accused with alleged terror offences. In a joint video statement released Friday, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan...

CASH ’N’ BASH

The way this senior citizen was viciously mugged at his money exchange business looked like something out of Pulp Fiction. But this was Erin Mills in Mississauga. Certainly not the Erin Mills the late great mayor Hazel Mccallion thought would be the...

JOLTED JOE

Ask Joe Bowen what his favourite moment behind the microphone has been these past 44 years, you'll get the same answer: “It hasn't happened yet.” Meaning the dramatic goal call that clinches the Maple Leafs a Stanley Cup or counting down the final...

‘IMMINENT?’

Mayor Olivia Chow says Toronto's police chief has had his hands tied by a “lawyer at headquarters” who tells him he can't pursue criminal counts on many suspects involved in alleged antisemitism. On Newstalk 1010 Monday, Chow said when she...

TERROR DOWN UNDER Gunmen target Jews attending Hanukkah party in Bondi Beach bloodbath

SYDNEY, Australia — An attack at a famous Australian beach killed 16 people, including a child, officials said Monday, after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it an act of...

RIDDLE STILL WITH NO ANSWER

Not even Agatha Christie could have conjured up such a mystery with so many strange clues and a cast of people detectives would interview. The double murder of Honey and Barry Sherman and the “staging” of their bodies to be found by the swimming pool...

COLD CASES CLOSED

Toronto Police and OPP cold case detectives have identified a sexcrazed serial killer who murdered three women between 1982 and '97. Sex offender Kenneth Leslie Smith would be charged with the three slayings — if he was still alive. Smith died in...

SHE’D RATHER DIE THAN WAIT

American political commentator Glenn Beck says he'll pay for a Saskatchewan woman's surgery in the United States after she was approved for a medically assisted death while waiting years to treat a rare but extremely painful thyroid disease. Beck made...

CITY HALL GRINCH

Premier Doug Ford says he won't step in to save residents of Toronto from Mayor Olivia Chow's tax-the-rich policy; that's up to voters. Chow was pushing a hike in the municipal land transfer tax on what she and her supporters described as...

Violent suspects rounded up in Project Wrangler were out thanks to lax justice system

Sometime in the late 1980s or early '90s, a man borrowed his girlfriend's car and promptly crashed it, sending the vehicle plummeting down a ravine. The driver was trapped underneath the car. This was bad enough, but the soundtrack made matters...

BIG SWING

As a product of the mammoth Disney marketing machine, Orlando is often proclaimed as “the happiest place on Earth.” If happiness is defined by overcrowded, sprawling amusement parks, perhaps it is. But will the central Florida city bring more joy to...

‘ENOUGH’S ENOUGH!’

The crooks are waving down the servers at the Crime Cafe, sneaking in a few more cheeky offences before last call. The feds have already proposed tightening bail for baddies; now Ontario is piling on. In October, the federal Liberal government...

LUCK OF THE DRAW

There may still be 188 days until the first game, but the real fun of the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicked off Friday afternoon. After years of waiting, Canada finally found out its path to the World Cup final and who it will play host to — kind...

Carney meets Trump today at World Cup draw — and here's what PM should pitch to kick off trade talks

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will have a face-to-face talk with U.S. President Donald Trump Friday while in Washington for the FIFA World Cup draw. The Prime Minister's Office confirmed the news to the Toronto Sun late Thursday morning, saying...

AXE & YOU SHALLPAGE RECEIVE?

At the heart of this faint hope hearing are a couple of tough questions: Do we really believe in rehabilitation — or punishment? Do killers deserve a chance at getting a chance at earlier parole? Or is doing their time the very least they can do? A...

‘I GOT SCARED’

It was self-defence. That seemed to be the argument from Damian Hudson, the drug dealer on trial for killing an innocent mom in the crossfire of a gunfight outside a Riverdale safe injection site in the summer of 2023. But his voice was so low and so...

FEELIN’ RIGHT AT HOME

Somewhere in the sewer that is the Canadian justice system, someone thought it a grand idea to spring Bandhumaan Sekhon. That he was the recipient of the largesse at a Peel Region courthouse should come as no surprise. The region northwest of Toronto...

GET COMFY

Four out of a possible six points. It's two wins in three road games for the Maple Leafs as they wind their way down to Florida, and who would have thought that just days ago? We didn't see it coming when the Leafs departed for Columbus after...

LEAFS PUT PENGUINS ON ICE

Expect the unexpected. For the Maple Leafs, they were words to live by on Saturday night. With speculation swirling regarding the futures of coach Craig Berube and general manager Brad Treliving, the Leafs beat up on the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG...

‘SALAD BOWL’ ROTTEN?

Can you imagine U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra dropping by to see Prime Minister Mark Carney to warn him that Canada has too much immigration? It could happen based on a new directive sent out to American embassies by President Donald Trump's Secretary...

PIPE UP!

On Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to what is normally hostile territory for a Liberal — he'll be addressing the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. The relationship between the Liberals and Calgary's business community, dominated by oil and gas,...

DRUNK WITH POWER

The plan to hike booze prices in Ontario didn't originate with the LCBO, as first thought, but with Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy. A letter sent by Bethlenfalvy to LCBO Chair Carmine Nigro on Oct. 15 laid out in detail exactly what the...

‘SHATTERED’

The patriarch of a Brampton family that lost five members — three women, a toddler and an unborn baby — in an early morning house fire last Thursday says he's reaching out for support “during the most heartbreaking and unimaginable time of our...

NEXT STOP?

The potential renaming of the Pioneer Village subway station has been a topic of discussion at the TTC for at least a year, the Toronto Sun has learned. While the Sun has reported Dundas station's renaming to TMU station was a “priority” for Mayor...

GREEN MEANIES

Turns out Pierre Poilievre isn't the only political leader dealing with drama in their caucus. It seems Mark Carney and the Liberals have their own share. Carney is dealing with disgruntled environmentalist MPS, including some that might leave the...

Service & sacrifice

A lot of you people out there have decided not to wear poppies anymore. Not Don Cherry, though. He's still wearing his poppy for 11 days in November, until Remembrance Day on Tuesday. That's six years to the day since he was fired for his position...

HER LAST VOYAGE

On the morning of Nov. 9, 1975, the U.S. Weather Service noted an area of low pressure developing over the Great Plains, centred in Kansas. It would likely amount to nothing, yet another fall storm in the Upper Midwest and along the Great Lakes. At...

‘BUBBLE’ TROUBLE

After delivering what the prime minister described as an “austerity budget” last week, Mark Carney, Finance Minister Francois-philippe Champagne and hundreds of lobbyists, political staff, bureaucrats, stakeholders, Liberal cabinet ministers, MPS and...

‘IT WAS EVIL’

Just call it Slaughterhouse 330. Only unlike Kurt Vonnegut's classic 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-five, this slaughter house at Universal Ostrich Farms wasn't an abandoned one used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Nazis in the Second World War, but a...

CELL-OUTS

OTTAWA — Canada's immigration bureaucracy has no data on how often Canadian citizenship was granted — or denied — to those with criminal records. That revelation comes courtesy of a response to an order paper question filed in September by...

MAGIC NUMBERS

Mark Carney's first budget is every bit as unsustainable as the budgets of Justin Trudeau. That's if we hold Carney to the same measuring stick that he used to criticize Trudeau's budgets. The current Liberal prime minister is fond of saying that the...

BUDGET MISSES MARK

OTTAWA — Canada will balance its operating budget within three years, with reductions in spending and an increase in investments. Tabled Tuesday afternoon in the House of Commons, Budget 2025 — entitled Build Canada Strong — promises to spend less on...

A NEW CUT

Before a cop car drove over someone under arrest, a woman was allegedly stabbing police cars. The first disturbing video circulating around social media showed a cop car driving over a suspect under arrest while the arresting officers looked like they...

BUDGET PRIMER

OTTAWA — With the Mark Carney government set to release its first budget on Tuesday, what's should we look for? Budgets are often used as opportunities by governments to unveil new policy or further election promises, but Franco Terrazzano, of the...

Grocers see green

We're now in November, and Canada's so-called grocery “blackout period” has begun — that stretch when major grocers ask suppliers to hold off on price increases until Feb. 1. On paper, it's meant to stabilize prices during the holiday season. But in...

`Culture' caused Amazon job cuts

Amazon didn't want to save money when the company recently turfed 14,000 employees. Rather, it was driven by “culture” says its CEO, Andy Jassy. During Amazon's earnings call Thursday, Jassy said the decision to cut the 14,000 positions was “not...

WASTE 101

Canadian Taxpayers Federation reveals ways feds blow cash on dubious research grants

TREY MENDOUS

They may be royal, but when it comes to cheering on the Blue Jays to win the World Series, some fans are calling the Duke and Duchess of Sussex what they have shown themselves to be: disloyal! At least, they are to the Blue Jays and Canada. However,...

FLIPPIN’ GREAT!

As Dylan Thomas wrote: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” And, of course, fight, fight with all your might. The Toronto Blue Jays are always good for this kind of life-or-death dilemma. Anybody who thinks the Jays are down for the count...

AD MAN

Doug Ford is calling his ad campaign that sparked controversy an incredible success. Speaking at Queen's Park on Monday morning, he called it “the most successful ad in the history of North America.” Given that President Donald Trump's reaction to the...

LIGHTS, CAMERAS, EXPENSES!

Mayor Olivia Chow and her crew from City Hall racked up thousands of dollars in travel expenses on their film industry trip to London and Dublin, including more than $11,000 for a boozy reception and $720 for a limo ride, the Toronto Sun has...

WHO SAID IT’D BE EASY?

Mike Chisholm had a pager with him when he came to watch the Toronto Blue Jays play against Philadelphia in the World Series in 1993. His wife was nine months pregnant, so he needed to check in every half-hour to make sure she was OK. He said he was...

GRAND OLD TIME!

It was a night 32 years in the making, the first World Series game played in Toronto since those glorious championship teams, and by the time it was over the home team delivered in every imaginable way. Most importantly for a frenzied home crowd and...

WHOLE NEW WORLD

As the Blue Jays get set to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, thoughts turn to the team's original mascot. Kevin Shanahan, creator of BJ Birdy, was there when the Blue Jays won back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and...

‘INEVITABLE’

A man who allegedly murdered a woman in Brampton, then took off with their toddler — sparking a provincewide Amber Alert — was shot dead by police in Niagara Falls early Wednesday. Niagara Regional Police said the shooting happened at a gas station on...

JAYS' FAN HAS A BALL

Just like Babe Ruth, new Toronto legend Michael Angeletti called the shot to be heard around the country. The Blue Jays fan was prophetic in calling the catch too. The Toronto tourism operator by day and Toronto sports fanatic by night snagged...

PM handcuffs himself

Mark Carney started last week with a good move on Canadau.s. relations. He ended the week undoing it all. Just like he did last summer, Carney is poisoning Ottawa's relations with Washington over his foolish and unthinking statements on the Middle...

Carney tries to sell Canada as reliable trade partner, but India isn’t buying

DO OR DIE

Eventually the flames will burn out and depending on how the next couple of days play unfold for the Blue Jays, Friday's Seattle meltdown may even be forgiven, if not forgotten, as one of the most gutwrenching moments in recent franchise history. But...