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A Blue Jays return to the World Series next year won't be easy, but fans have hope

A Blue Jays return to the World Series next year won’t be easy, but fans have hope

It was a tough Game 7 loss on Saturday, and Blue Jays fans were still licking their World Series wounds this week when Toronto pitcher Shane Bieber exercised his player option, forgoing free agency to stay with the club. Just like that, fans, analysts — and even Blue Jays executives — were talking about the possibility that the team could be back on baseball’s biggest stage next year.

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How the son of Russian spies paved the legal path for B.C. ostrich cull

How the son of Russian spies paved the legal path for B.C. ostrich cull

In his battle for Canadian citizenship, Alexander Vavilov got an opportunity denied to the owners of B.C.’s Universal Ostrich Farms — a chance to argue his case before Canada’s top court. In the process, the son of Russian spies set a legal standard for decision-making “reasonableness” that would doom the B.C. birds six years later.

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Canada's major airlines wind down flights to Cuba as Havana airport warns it will run out of jet fuel
Star

February 4, 2026

Canada’s major airlines wind down flights to Cuba as Havana airport warns it will run out of jet fuel

Canada’s major airlines have all suspended service to Cuba, with…

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Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory
Star

February 4, 2026

Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory

Ask the travellers who keep going year after year, and…

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Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Jordan Omstead

Why a turtle die-off has this Ottawa researcher worried about warming winters

Grégory Bulté was snorkelling in the cold waters of Ontario’s…

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Business, Health, Ontario/Quebec, Social

February 4, 2026

Maan Alhmidi

Medical staff leave Kashechewan First Nation as parasite contaminates water

Medical staff have left a northern Ontario First Nation that…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Teen charged with second-degree murder in death of infant in Port Rowan, Ont: police

PORT ROWAN — A teenager has been charged with murder…

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Business, Construction, Economy, Real Estate

February 4, 2026

Ian Bickis

Greater Toronto home sales, prices slide in January with more weakness ahead: TRREB

TORONTO — Greater Toronto Area home sales and price weakness…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign veteran CFL middle linebacker Wynton McManis

HAMILTON — Wynton McManis wasn’t unemployed long. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Gemma Karstens-Smith

‘We were really starting to click there’: Leafs enter Olympic break on win streak

EDMONTON — Matthew Knies is of two minds when it…

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Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones
Star

February 4, 2026

Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones

Nine months after Lilly and Jack Sullivan vanished without a…

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