• The Bank of Canada’s phantom Council

  Stephen Poloz, centre, walks with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, left, and Mark Carney after being named as the next Governor of the Bank of Canada during a news conference , Thursday May 2, 2013 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN ...

• Monstrous Oklahoma tornado kills at least 91

  Disaster workers toiled in hail, lightning and rain early Tuesday in Moore, Okla., hoping to find survivors of a giant tornado that killed at least 91 people. Hundreds of crews, including National Guardsmen, Red Cross workers and city and county employees, worked feverishly under stadium lights through the night, cutting through fallen beams and clearing debris. Three thunderstorms pummeled ...

• Baseball fuels dreams desperation in Dominican Republic

  (Nick Purdon is a current affairs reporter and Leonardo Palleja is a current affairs producer and videographer with CBC's The National. Purdon and Palleja visited the Dominican Republic in late April 2013 to explore the dark side of Dominican baseball. Like many profesional ball teams, the Toronto Blue Jays have a number of stars from the Dominican Republic: Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Edwin ...

• Tanzania Tanzania Canada Sign Agreement to Promote Investment

  Tanzania and Canada have signed a co-operation agreement designed to promote and create favourable investment conditions between the two countries, Tanzania's Daily News reported Thursday (May 16th). The pact, known as the foreign investment promotion and protection agreement, strengthens economic ties between Canada and Tanzania and promotes local and foreign investment. Minister of ...

• At casino meeting Rob Ford to face council for first time since drug allegation

  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends the flag-raising ceremony marking the start of Pride Week on May 17, 2013. Tuesday will be the first time the beleaguered mayor faces his council colleagues since accusations he was videotaped smoking crack cocaine surfaced last week. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...

• Summer to rank among Canadas warmest on record typical temperatures predicted for Metro Vancouver

  Southwestern British Columbia should expect typical summer temperatures this year, although the southern interior will see more heat than usual.That's the prediction of meteorologists at AccuWeather.com, which said in its summer outlook Monday that Canadians in general will experience hot spells interspersed with cooler periods.However, it will be more of the same in Metro Vancouver and ...

• Canada called ‘a natural fit’ for Pacific Alliance

  On the eve of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to Latin America, Mexico - keen on putting some new zip into its relations with Ottawa - sees Canada as an ideal fit for the new Pacific Alliance trading bloc that is rapidly emerging.Mexico's vice-minister of foreign affairs, Sergio Alcocer, says Canada would see benefits in Latin America and Asia - if it's willing to do ...

• Blue Jays’ Lind draws line in the sand

  Standing at the plate in the first inning, Adam Lind represented a Toronto batting order that's admitted to being too anxious through the first quarter of the season, and a team desperate for a win against an American League East opponent to kick off a nine-game homestand. On the mound, 23-year-old Jake Odorizzi was making just his third major-league start and his first for Tampa Bay, a ...

• Ortiz aims to capitalize on return to Majors vs. Rays

  The last time he pitched, Ramon Ortiz picked up his first victory as a starter in more than six years. Now he has a chance for his second in six days. Ortiz will take the ball for the Blue Jays on Tuesday night as they play the second of a three-game series against the Rays at Rogers Centre. Alex Cobb will go for Tampa Bay, which dropped Monday's opener but has still won nine of 12. There ...

• Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb kills 37

  A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary ...

• Torontonians have fun in the sun on Victoria Day

  The Toronto area was blessed with good weather on Victoria Day, allowing residents to enjoy a variety of activities under sunny skies. Some people spent the day on boardwalks or at the beach. Others took the opportunity to spend a day riding the rides at Canada's Wonderland, just north of the city. For those who drove north toward cottage country, they knew they would have to head home ...

• Hidden camera catches abuse at Ontario seniors facility

  The Ontario government and police are investigating a long-term care facility after a hidden video camera captured an elderly woman with dementia being abused by her caregivers. Camille Parent first became concerned last year when his 85-year-old mother, who lives at St. Joseph's at Fleming in Peterborough, Ont., appeared with scratches and bruises. He complained to the facility, but ...

• Will alleged Ford video overshadow Toronto casino debate

  supposed to take centre stage at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, but it seems a safe bet that a still-unseen video of Mayor Rob Ford will continue to be a topic of conversation. The Toronto Star and the U.S.-based gossip website Gawker have both reported seeing a video that allegedly shows Ford smoking what appears to be a crack pipe. Both media outlets say that someone has been shopping the ...

• Tornado strikes school in Oklahoma City suburb

  A more than one-kilometre wide tornado hit an elementary school in an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday, say authorities, as twisters churned through the city's suburbs for the second day in a row. The severe weather outbreak is expected to spread in other parts of the U.S. Plains and ...

• Dickey Encarnacion lead Blue Jays over Rays

  Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey works against Tampa Bay Rays during first inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Monday. (Chris Young/Canadian ...

• Canadas Harper under cloud after chief of staff resigns

  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is seen through a television camera scope while speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, May 16, ...

• Torontos Tumblrs New Crop Of Start-Ups Await The Big Time

  was for. And before that, MySpace. It doesn't matter. David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, is smiling all the way to the bank. He cashed in with his web creation from his offices in Silicon Alley in Midtown. In the Americas, there's Silicon Alley in New York, the much bigger and more famous Silicon Valley in California and further north, and getting bigger, there's Toronto. ...

• Blue Jays hold on to beat Rays 7-5

  Toronto - R.A. Dickey won his second straight start, Edwin Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking, bases-loaded double in the seventh inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 ...

• Elite prospect Stroman makes first 13 start

  Email It took a while, 50 games to be exact, but the Blue Jays and Marcus Stroman are both extremely happy he is back pitching again. Stroman, the Duke product taken in the first round of the 2012 Draft by Toronto (No. 22 overall), began the year serving a suspension for taking a performance-enhancing drug, one the right-hander has said he took unknowingly as part of an over-the-counter ...

• MLB Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 5

  Tampa Bay Rays . Dickey (4-5) allowed four hits and walked four in eight innings. Tampa Bay managed three runs -- two earned -- in the first three innings but didn't score off Dickey again. He struck out five Toronto reached Rays' starter Jake Odorizzi for three runs in the first two innings and, ...

• Blue Jays launch nine-game homestand with a win

  Toronto Blue Jays Brett Lawrie slides safely into third after hitting an RBI triple off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jake Odorizzi during first inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Monday May 20, 2013. (Chris Young/THE CANADIAN ...

• Ontario Man Charged with Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity

  BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David Allen Vickers, 49, of Stanley, New York, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $250,000. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is ...

• Toronto mayor urged to step down if crack allegations true

  View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends a gay rights flag raising event at Toronto City Hall May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brett ...

• D-Day beaches wind turbine proposal seeks Canadian comments

  Canadian veterans walk on Juno Beach on June 6, 2004. The view from some of those sites could change if a plan to build wind turbines some 10 kilometres off the shore succeeds. (Tom Hanson/Canadian ...

• NDP wants RCMP inquiry into $90K payment to Duffy

  The NDP is calling on the RCMP to investigate the actions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, who resigned recently after news emerged of a secret $90,000 payment he made to Senator Mike Duffy in relation to the Senate expense scandal. NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus announced Monday that a letter had been sent to the commissioner of the RCMP, Robert ...

• While Toronto gets perfect 25C weather for Victoria Day Gander Newfoundland digs itself out of record 54cm snowfall

  GANDER, N.L. -- Newfoundland and Labrador is digging out of a spring storm that walloped parts of the province over the weekend with record-breaking snowfall amounts. Environment Canada says 54 centimetres of snow fell in Gander on Saturday and Sunday over a 20 hour period. Meteorologist Wanda Rideout says the total climbs to 66 centimetres if you include the snow that had already melted ...

• City of Toronto begins to spray to control European Gypsy Moth population

  Toronto is currently dealing with an infestation of the European Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar). Infestation levels reached a point where manual control methods, such as egg scraping, sticky traps, and ground spraying of pesticides are no longer effective in controlling the Gypsy Moth population. The City ...

• Search dogs at Canada’s borders more likely to sniff out meat than drugs records show

  OTTAWA -- Federal search dogs at international border entry points have a penchant for sniffing out one thing more than anything else: meat.The release of the data comes as federal officials question the necessity and effectiveness of the dogs, with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) dismantling some of its search-dog teams over the past year -- a move the federal union believes will erode ...

• York Regional Police revise assessment on abduction report

  A few hours after police reported an attempted abduction in York Region, they now say that it may not have occurred. On Monday morning, police reported that a man had allegedly tried to abduct a two-year-old child at Vaughan Mills Park. Further investigation has left police unclear if that happened. York Regional Police tweeted on Monday afternoon that their investigators say the male ...

• Man shot dead at Toronto barbecue

  Toronto police are investigating the killing of a man in the Dundas St.-Ossington Ave. area. (JACK BOLAND, Toronto Sun) TORONTO - A long weekend barbecue turned bloody after a 35-year-old man was shot dead at an apartment building in the Ossington Ave.-Dundas St. W. area. Quincy Ramirez was fatally shot at least once in the chest around 7:40 p.m. on Sunday. A 67-year-old building resident, ...

• With Johnson rehabbing Jenkins likely to fill rotation

  Email TORONTO -- Toronto has recently been playing things day by day when it comes to its fourth and fifth men in the rotation. Because the rainout in New York on Sunday pushed everyone back a day, the next time the Blue Jays have a decision to make is Friday, when the Orioles come to town. However, don't expect Josh Johnson to be a part of that discussion. "From what he's ...

• Lind bats cleanup against Rays

  Email TORONTO -- Adam Lind batted cleanup Monday afternoon against the Rays for the first time this year. Part of that was because he had been swinging the bat well. Over his last 10 games entering Monday, Lind was batting .382 with a .417 on-base percentage, including three home runs, five RBIs and eight runs scored. "He's definitely been one of our hotter hitters," manager ...

• After recent turnaround Gose called up

  Email TORONTO -- Prior to Monday's contest against the Rays, the Blue Jays announced they had called up Anthony Gose from Triple-A Buffalo and sent down reliever Mickey Storey. "I can't explain how excited I am; I'm happier than can be right now," Gose said prior to Monday's game against the Rays. "We're really high on him in this organization," ...

• Canadian singer apologizes for U.S. anthem botch

  A Canadian jazz singer apologized for botching the U.S. national anthem at the Memorial Cup junior ice hockey game in Saskatchewan. Alexis Normand said she had been asked the day before the Saturday game to learn the Star-Spangled Banner to perform at the Western Hockey League game ...

• Canada pitches startups with lower taxes instant residency

  Canada's new immigration-centric pitch to Silicon Valley's many foreign-born entrepreneurs. Canada is pitching Silicon Valley entrepreneurs on northern migration. The gist: Easier access to visas for foreign-born entrepreneurs, a growing base of engineering talent, R&D tax credits and lower corporate taxes. Low-tax U.S. states like Arizona, Nevada and Washington have pitched financial ...

• Report Colangelo to be removed as Raptors GM

  Yahoo!columnistAdrian Wojnarowski reported on Monday. According to Wojnarowski, the Raptors are also preparing a ';major'; financial offer to current Nuggets general manager ...

• Bryan Colangelo out as Raptors GM offered corporate role reports

  It appears Bryan Colangelo is out as president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors, but he could be staying with the team in another capacity. According to multiple media reports, the Raptors are negotiating with Colangelo to take on a corporate, non-basketball role with the team. The reports did not specify what Colangelo's new duties with the team would be. Colangelo joined the ...

• Can the Senate fire a senator

  An expert on parliamentary rules says the Senate has the power to turf a senator from the chamber, as long as a majority approves the expulsion. Ned Franks, an emeritus political science professor at Queen's university, said, "The Senate is master of its own house." Franks cautioned that the removal of a senator cannot be done without cause, but, "If the Senate considers ...

• Anthony Gose back with Blue Jays despite average Triple-A stats

  Given his numbers at triple-A Buffalo, Anthony Gose wasn't expecting a call from the Blue Jays. When it came, he still didn't quite believe it. "Definitely surprised," he said of the call-up. "I didn't even know what to think. They called me this morning, told me I was going up. I kept asking was it real? I didn't know what was happening. I just ...

• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford greatest hits The politician who makes London Mayor Boris look like John Major in comparison

  Rob Ford, the Mayor of Toronto, is so ridiculous that even London's zip-wiring, pond-falling, wiff-waffing Mayor Boris Johnson looks like John Major in ...

• Warm weather with cool breaks forecast for Canada this summer

  Get ready to break out the sunscreen Canada, but don't worry about sizzling all season.Meteorologists at AccuWeather.com say the majority of Canadians can look forward to a more "typical" summer this year, when hot spells will be interspersed with cooler periods."The biggest takeaway from this forecast is it's not going to resemble last year's summer, which was the ...

• Man 35 dies in bicycling accident at skateboard park police

  A 35-year-old man is dead after an early Monday morning bicycling accident at a Toronto skateboarding park, AM640 and CFRB report.Police say the man suffered head trauma when his bike went over the edge at Underpass Park (at Eastern Avenue and Lower River Street) in the city's east end just before 4 ...

• Man dies after bike accident in Underpass Park

  A man died on Sunday night after he fell off a BIXI bike while attempting to perform tricks in Underpass Park near the Don Valley Parkway. Police said the victim was not wearing a helmet. (Tony ...

• Todays MLB starting lineups May 20

  Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Cleveland Indians: 1. ...

• Canada’s West Coast Ports Hold Onto 2012 Gains

  Canada's West Coast container ports stayed level in the first quarter of 2013 with the robust growth they experienced last year. When compared with the first quarter of 2012, Canadian ports saw a higher throughput volume in the first quarter of 2013, but a slight dip in West Coast traffic market ...

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