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TORONTO — Heather Gardiner couldn't give her seats away. The Blue Jays owned a record under .500 back in the spring, and looked poised for another middling campaign with little playoff hope. Things then drastically turned around on the field.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after an officer fatally shot a man in Niagara Falls on Wednesday morning. The Special Investigations Unit says the shooting happened around 11:15 a.m. in the area of Stanley Avenue and Peer Street.

AIRDRIE — Alberta's transportation minister says the province plans to learn from an Ontario court ruling that found a law seeking to remove some Toronto bike lanes to be unconstitutional.

TORONTO — The Ontario government says it will appeal a court decision that found a new law to remove three Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional, after a judge ruled the lane removals would put people at an "increased risk of harm and death.

TORONTO — Ontario has officially cancelled its $100-million contract with Starlink, but the province refuses to say how much it cost taxpayers to get out of the deal.

Toronto police are offering a $50,000 reward for information in the cold case of an eight-year-old girl who disappeared 40 years ago. Police announced the reward outside the same apartment building where Nicole Morin went missing on July 30, 1985.

TORONTO — Thousands of young people lined up for interviews at the Canadian National Exhibition job fair on Wednesday amid a high level of youth unemployment in Ontario.

TORONTO — A teen girl found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal swarming of a homeless Toronto man broke into tears Wednesday as she apologized in court for her role in the attack, saying she has learned "important lessons" in the years since the inc

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OTTAWA — The president of the Ontario Crown Attorneys' Association says "attacks" launched by "politicians, media and members of the public" in response to two high-profile criminal cases amount to "affronts to the rule of law.