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The NHL and PWHL have been working together ahead of the league’s expected launch in January 2024, with the NHL sharing advice and helping plan special events and games. But NHL executive Susan Cohig confirmed it’s not a financial relationship.  Collaboration between leagues could also include PWHL games in NHL …

Toronto police have identified a woman who died after a shooting in the city’s west end Sunday. Officers were initially called to an address on Davenport Road, near St. Clair Avenue West and Old Weston Road, around 10:30 p.m. Police say they found a man with a knife, and he …

WARNING: This story contains graphic details of intimate partner violence. The Parole Board of Canada has granted full parole to Mukhtiar Singh Panghali, a former B.C. high school teacher who strangled his pregnant wife and burned her body in 2006. Panghali was initially sentenced to life in prison in 2011, …

Thousands of horses, confined to crates and loaded into the cargo holds of airplanes, are shipped out of Canada each year, destined for international markets. As Ottawa mulls a proposed a ban on live exports for slaughter, horse activists and industry advocates are clashing over whether a ban is justified …

The Saskatchewan government is asking the provincial court to penalize Matthew Michel, an Anishinabe man they claim breached court rules following the publication of information and video from inside a youth jail showing staff immobilizing him with a restraint device while he wept, hyperventilated and asked for death.  Province says …

Canada’s inflation rate decelerated to 3.8 per cent in September, down from four per cent in August. Rate lower than economists were expecting. Canada’s inflation rate decelerated to 3.8 per cent in September, down from four per cent in August. The figure, which was reported by Statistics Canada on Tuesday, …

A Canadian surveillance plane conducting a sanctions enforcement patrol was intercepted Monday by Chinese warplanes off the coast of China in an “unsafe and unprofessional manner,” a senior Canadian air force commander said. The incident involving the CP-140 Aurora — which was monitoring the shipping lanes of the East China …

After nine years as a Saskatchewan human rights commissioner, Heather Kuttai resigned from the role Monday in response to the province’s new policy that requires teachers to alert parents if their child wants to use a different gender expression at school. Heather Kuttai says she stepped down in honour of …

The young public servant thrust into the spotlight when she agreed to become the lead plaintiff in a multi-million-dollar proposed class action against Freedom Convoy organizers is testifying in the criminal trial of two of them: Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. Zexi Li’s testimony came on the 17th day of …

The run-down church will be turned into a space to grow and store fresh produce year round, with the harvest going to a local food bank. Organizers of the project hope it will alleviate some of the food insecurity in the region. Phone call from parish priest sets $1.2-million plan …