Bautista ready to move on after four-hit performance

Email TORONTO -- Jose Bautista entered Thursday's contest against the Orioles after one of his best individual performances. Not only did the 32-year-old slugger hit two home runs and drive in all four of the Blue Jays runs vs. the Rays Wednesday, but he also hit the walk-off single in the tenth. However, it's not something the veteran wants to dwell on. "It was certainly a good ...

Nolin to get the call from Double-A start Friday

Email TORONTO -- It may have been one of the worst kept secrets in baseball, but the Blue Jays announced Thursday that prospect Sean Nolin will start for the club Friday vs. the Baltimore Orioles. The Blue Jays had been mum over the last couple days on who would be making the start Friday, but there was an overwhelming thought that the club might turn to the big left-hander sooner rather than ...

Jenkins to make second start of season on Sunday

Email TORONTO -- The Blue Jays decided to turn to another young player for Sunday's start in the series finale vs. the Orioles. Chad Jenkins will make his second start of the season, exactly two weeks after impressing in his first outing against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Although the long stretch in between pitching would typically mean some rust for the starter on the mound, it's ...

Mark Carney’s tribute to Canada

Canadians are not in the habit of thinking of their country as similar to the euro zone group of countries, but Mark Carney, in his speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, presented Canada's monetary union, with "internal real exchange rates," as a much more successful version of the same phenomenon as the euro zone. Canada's different regions do ...

Canada disapproves new meat labeling rules

TORONTO -; Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider ...