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An Ontario judge has dismissed billionaire businessman Frank Stronach's bid to quash his committal to stand trial on one of the dozen charges he faces in his Toronto sexual assault case. Stronach, 93, was committed to stand trial on 12 charges following a preliminary hearing in April. The charges stem from alleged incidents dating back decades. His lawyers challenged the decision regarding one charge, but the motion was rejected Monday after submissions by the defence and the Crown.

Up to 10 cm of snow is expected throughout the GTA on Sunday. It's the earliest occurrence of over 5 cm of snow since 1969, the Weather Network posted on social media. But the dump of snow has been causing issues on the roads. Ontario Provincial Police responded to over 140 collisions throughout the day, they said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Sgt. Kerry Schmidt with the Ontario Provincial Police Highway Safety Division said Sunday is just the beginning of driving in winter weather.

Hockey will be Canada's sport forever, but the Toronto Blue Jays have helped raise baseball's popularity in the country, evidenced by their World Series run in 2025. Coincidentally, an exposé on the Montreal Expos aired on Netflix at the end of October to rave reviews. Gonna watch this on Netflix eighty kajillion times during the off-season pic.twitter.com/YncNuukHQa- Montreal Expos (@Montreal_Expos) November 2, 2025

Veterans and loved ones gathered at the Spirit Garden outside Toronto's city hall on Saturday for a ceremony honouring Indigenous veterans. With beaded poppies, music and sacred offerings, about 100 attendees paid homage to the lives lost in service. Indigenous Veterans Day was first commemorated in 1994 and is celebrated across the country on Nov. 8. Rob Baskey, senator for the Metis Nation of Ontario Veterans Council, said Indigenous Veterans Day honours Indigenous members of the military, but also remembers the injustice they faced.

A Brampton man has been arrested following two extortion related shootings in Caledon and Brampton, Peel police announced on Sunday. One suspect is still outstanding, police say. On Oct. 26, police say surveillance footage shows two people firing shots at a Caledon residence near Old School Road and Creditview Road just before 3 a.m. Earlier in the footage, one of the shooters is seen lighting fire on the resident's driveway, according to the press release.

Durham Regional Police are investigating after a dog was found dead in a suitcase in Oshawa Friday evening. Officers responded to an animal abuse call around Gibb Street and Grenfall Street around 9:30 p.m. Friday, Durham police said in a news release. Police said a passerby made the call after finding a small dog dead inside a suitcase. Investigators are looking to speak with a suspicious man seen in the area around 3 p.m. carrying a suitcase.

Toronto will open 1,275 additional shelter spaces for unhoused people this winter, but advocates say the plan is not robust enough to get everybody without a home out of the cold. The city will provide more spaces in shelters, 24-hour respite sites and warming centres, open units in supportive and subsidized housing and make surge capacity spaces available, as part of its winter services plan for people experiencing homelessness, according to Gordon Tanner, manager of Toronto Shelter and Support Services.

A 22-year-old man has died after a crash early Saturday morning in Bracebridge, about 80 kilometers northeast from Barrie, Ont., said Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Officers responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash around 1:30 a.m. on Fraserburg Road between McKay Trail and Old Cottage Road, said a news release by OPP. The 22-year-old passenger from Brantford, Ont., was pronounced dead after the head-on collission, said police. The two drivers and another passenger were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Fiddler was doing laundry in her basement around 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 3, when she noticed the sink wasn't draining. Her husband tried to use a plunger, but they saw the water that returned had raw sewage in it. They then noticed water spilling out from the sealed water main drain in their basement's electrical room, she says. It was coming out quickly and it was like it's going to start flooding, she said.

Canadian company Premier Tech said on Friday it had broken off its sponsorship deal after the team was targeted by pro-Palestinian protesters at several races this year, with stages of the Vuelta a Espana grand tour in August and September disrupted by demonstrators before the race was abandoned by organisers. The sponsors removed their full name from riders' jerseys at the Vuelta.

Beyond that, the team could go a bunch of different ways. I like (Cameron) Reid's skating, while Danford can shut down just about anyone. (Charlie) Elick can be paired up with anyone and bring toughness and a willingness to win every shift. Overall, there's still a lot of "wait and see" with the D-corps - and I don't think that's a bad thing, given the depth available to them.

Payments processing company Moneris says that during World Series Game 6, total restaurant spending near the Rogers Centre climbed 20 per cent week-over-week, and jumped 26 per cent during Game 7. That boost was felt at Mill Street Brewery in the Distillery District. "We hosted every single game sound on and we were a packed house the entire time. The energy was wild," said Emma Barrett, head of marketing at the brewery.

Further complicating matters, there's no central U.S. government website that lays out all the options for travellers, and those who register at the border will likely be photographed, fingerprinted and charged $30 US. It's confusing, there's no common sense in how they're rolling this out, said U.S. immigration lawyer, Len Saunders, whose office sits close to the border in Blaine, Wash. Saunders says he receives several calls per day from Canadians who are desperate for clarity about the new rule. Nobody knows how this works.

Despite Sudan's paramilitary agreeing to a proposal from the United States and Arab powers for a humanitarian ceasefire on Thursday, members of Toronto's Sudanese community say they feel abandoned by the Canadian government amid escalating violence in Sudan. On Oct. 26, rebel forces took control of the Sudanese city of El Fasher after an 18-month siege, followed by reports of extortion, rape and mass killings of civilians.

An elderly woman was found dead at the scene of a fire in a Brampton high-rise on Thursday evening, Peel paramedics say. Fire crews responded to flames coming from a 14th-floor unit in an apartment building near Queen Street E. and Central Park Drive. The woman was pronounced dead but it's unclear whether the woman died as a result of the fire. Paramedics told CBC Toronto the woman did not appear to have any signs of smoke inhalation or burns.

The Ontario government says it wants to scrap parts of a law requiring it to set and update its emission reductions targets, wiping out legislation that's been key to a youth-led constitutional challenge of its climate plan. The government's plan to repeal parts of the 2018 Cap and Trade Cancellation Act is buried in today's fall economic statement. The government says it will repeal the sections requiring the province to establish emissions reductions targets, prepare a climate plan and issue progress reports.

Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401. The province issued a request for proposals for the study in the spring and a spokesperson for Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said Thursday that WSP Canada Inc. was recently awarded the contract. "Our government is making significant progress on the transformational project to build a tunnel under Highway 401 that will get people and goods moving across the province faster," Dakota Brasier wrote.

But if look beneath the surface retail investors on Reddit, X, and other forums are keeping their bullish tone. At least as of today, they're viewing the dip as a buying opportunity. While these groups can get a fever and momentum all their own the fundamental belief that nuclear energy is the comeback kid of 2025 and beyond seems valid.

Toronto police say they've made multiple arrests after a group of demonstrators reportedly forced their way into a downtown building. Police said at least one person was injured in the incident that occurred in the area of Elm and Bay streets on Wednesday afternoon. Police did not immediately provide any further details but stated that they were continuing to investigate.

Canada's food inspection agency says it plans to begin a complete depopulation of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country's top court declined to block the controversial cull. On Thursday, the supreme court said it would not take up a case that has catalyzed a fierce protest by the farm owners and protesters as well as senior figures in the Trump administration, who have decried the public health effort as government overreach.

Michele Romanow kicked off the day by reminding the audience that entrepreneurship is messy and that all the planning can't prevent failure. Drawing on her early venture, a luxury caviar farm, she shared her journey from pitching to realizing the massive capital needed, highlighting how even a pivot taught her essential resilience. There isn't one great idea; there are hundreds of iterations from where you started. Her advice: get scrappy. That hands-on experience taught her the leadership and adaptability that fuelled her later successes.

Forty-four nurses and health-care professionals including social workers, dietitians, and pharmacists from the North York Family Health Team (NYFHT) have been on strike since Oct. 20. Rita Ha, a pharmacist and the group's bargaining unit president, told CBC Toronto the workers want to see the government funds redirected to staff along with a fair collective agreement. We've been doing negotiations since April 2024, she said. Every single time we come to the table, they're saying, There's no money, there's no money, there's no money.'

To the youth, this budget was made for you, said Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne during a speech on Tuesday before he tabled the budget in the House of Commons.

Aurora, a pseudonym to protect her identity, says she was almost one of those people before she discovered the York Region Centre for Community Safety (YRCCS). They told me that I'm not the one who should be blamed for this situation they taught me how to love and care for myself again, said Aurora. According to executive director Jaspreet Gill, YRCCS helped connect over 800 people and 1,200 of their children with intimate-partner violence resources such as shelters, legal support, and food banks last year.