TOKYO — Canada’s Andre De Grasse cruised into the semifinals of the men’s 100 metres, winning his heat in a season-best time of 9.91 seconds. Wearing sunglasses and looking relaxed in the blocks, the 26-year-old from Markham, Ont., turned on the jets over the final 50 metres to book his…

Emergency crews responded to an industrial fire at Superior Propane on Bayview Drive in Barrie’s south end, Friday afternoon.  The fire, which is embedded above from Facebook, was captured on video by Garry Diceman.  Businesses are being evacuated on Saunders and Lockhart roads.  Emergency officials have cleared a one-kilometre area around…

In another dispiriting setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots. Health officials on…

Ontario is reporting another small uptick in COVID-19 cases two weeks after a wider reopening of the province. Provincial health officials reported 226 new cases of the virus Friday, along with 11 more deaths. On Thursday, the province reported 218 new cases, the most since July 6 when 244 were…

TOKYO — The Canadian women’s eight rowing crew has captured gold at the Tokyo Olympics. The eight rowers crossed the line first in Friday’s final in a time of five minutes 59.13 seconds at Sea Forest Waterway. It’s Canada’s first gold in the event since the 1992 Barcelona Games. New…

MOSCOW – A newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position Thursday when it accidentally fired its thrusters. For 47 minutes, the space station lost control of its orientation when the firing occurred a few hours after docking, pushing the orbiting complex from its…

It didnt need to be this way. This spring, as people lined up for newly available, miraculously effective Covid-19 vaccines, it was easy to imagine a direct and speedy path to a protected society. The curve of administered doses appeared limited only by the supply, and the curve was looking…

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one of the world’s most successful vaccination drives earlier this year, the first country to…

Scarlett Johansson is suing the Walt Disney Co. over its streaming release of BlackWidow, which she said breached her contract and deprived her of potential earnings. In a lawsuit filed Thursday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court, the BlackWidow star and executive producer said her contract guaranteed an exclusive theatrical…

LONDON (AP) – AstraZeneca said Thursday that it intends to seek U.S. approval for its COVID-19 vaccine in the second half of this year, further delaying the long-awaited application. The Anglo-Swedish drugmaker announced the new timetable as it said the company and its partners have delivered more than 1 billion…