21 h. ago Vlad Guerrero Jr. has his first big playoff moment as Blue Jays strike first in blowout of Yankees

It has become a date on the calendar to define Toronto Blue Jays baseball, good and bad. There was Oct. 4, 2016, the day Edwin Encarnacion rocked a three-run homer in the 11th inning of an AL wildcard game to send the Jays to a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Then there was Oct. […]

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21 h. ago ‘The face of our franchise’: On Vlad Guerrero Jr.’s breakout and a blowout Blue Jays Game 1 win over Yanks

It has become a date on the calendar to define Toronto Blue Jays baseball, good and bad. There was Oct. 4, 2016, the day Edwin Encarnacion rocked a three-run homer in the 11th inning of an AL wildcard game to send the Jays to a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Then there was Oct. […]

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45 h. ago Blue Jays aren’t expecting a Kirk Gibson moment from injured Bo Bichette

Blue Jays manager John Schneider has long been an avid fan of the game and well-versed in some of Major League Baseball’s biggest post-season moments. With that in mind, his assessment of injured shortstop Bo Bichette’s chances of returning to action in the American League division series that begins on Saturday, was probably revealing. “I […]

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4 d. ago ‘TOUCH ‘EM ALL, VLADDY’: Guerrero Jr. hungry for his Blue Jays playoff moment

Star slugger wants to get his big moment in the MLB playoffs this year and is eager to win it all for Toronto.

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4 d. ago Former Raptors player started planning exit from Toronto the moment he was traded

If there's one thing you could say about former Toronto Raptors player Bruce Brown, it's that he's got no issue with being honest.Speaking to Andscape's Marc J. Spears in a story published Monday, Brown admitted that the Raptors, and then later New Orleans, perhaps weren't the best fit for him at that point in his career.Brown has now played for six NBA teams in seven seasons, but was perhaps best known for being a key bench piece on the 2023 champion Denver Nuggets team.After leaving the Nuggets in free agency, he signed with the Indiana Pacers, who eventually traded him to Toronto as part of a package deal for Pascal Siakam.Brown spent parts of two seasons in Toronto before eventually being shipped off to the New Orleans Pelicans in another blockbuster deal centred around Brandon Ingram."I ended up being traded to teams where they were rebuilding and not really in a position to win a championship. And if you know how I play, I like to win. I don&...

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6 d. ago Suspected stowaway found dead in plane’s landing gear at North Carolina airport

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Airplane maintenance workers at a North Carolina airport found the body of a suspected stowaway in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines flight that had recently arrived from Europe, police said. The body was found Sunday morning while the plane was undergoing maintenance at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]

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1 week ago Afghan boy reportedly survives 1,000 km flight in landing gear compartment

The boy reportedly intended to fly to Tehran, Iran, and was unaware that the 90 minute, 1,000-kilometre flight he snuck onto was bound for Delhi.

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1 week ago Toronto flight forced to land 3,000 km away after emergency on board

A Toronto-bound flight was forced to cut its roughly 12-hour journey short last week after a passenger suffered a medical emergency on board. On Sept. 15, a long-haul Air Canada flight departed from Tokyo's Haneda Airport at 6:13 p.m. and was headed for Toronto Pearson International Airport. The daily flight is usually scheduled to take off around 6:10 p.m. in Japan and land in Toronto at 5:35 p.m. local time, though things didn't quite go to plan this time around.While flying over Canada, the crew was forced to divert to Yellowknife Airport after a medical emergency took place on board the aircraft. The flight landed safely in Yellowknife roughly nine hours after taking off from Haneda Airport at 12:03 p.m. local time. Flight radar shows the aircraft diverting from its normal route, which usually takes it over Vancouver, to land in Yellowknife. Source: FlightAware.com.In a statement to blogTO, Air Canada confirmed that the diversion was du...

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1 week ago Diplo impressed by Toronto Eaton Centre but then had embarrassing moment in mall

Famed DJ and music producer Diplo recently took a shopping trip to Toronto's Eaton Centre, and while he seemed pretty impressed by the iconic mall, the same can't exactly be said about his reception from shoppers.As Diplo strolled through the Eaton Centre, he took note of the "really nice mall," remarking that the 1977-opened shopping centre must be "new." Casually chatting with his photographer, the man behind the camera pointed out two seemingly random men sitting on a nearby bench and said, "Go back to them… autograph."Without a second thought,  Diplo walked over and signed a booklet that one of the men was reading, but the man quickly snapped it shut and shot him a quizzical look. Embarrassed, the humbled celebrity turned back to the camera, shrugged, and said, "No autograph." @diplo I will never recover from this #electronicmusic #edm ♬ original sound - DiploCalling it an experience "he will never r...

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2 w. ago WestJet begins repairs on plane in St. Maarten that experienced hard landing

WestJet says it is starting to repair the plane that experienced a hard landing in St. Maarten and shut down the Caribbean island’s airport for a day last week. The WestJet flight from Toronto landed roughly on its right landing gear before coming to a stop on the runway of Princess Juliana International Airport on […]

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2 w. ago AHS issues alert after passenger with measles flew from Toronto to Edmonton

Alberta Health Services issued a public alert Monday after a person infected with measles was on an Edmonton-bound flight last week. According to the alert, the individual was on Air Canada Flight 173 from Pearson to Edmonton International Airport on Sept. 10. The flight took off at 3:44 p.m. Edmonton time, landing at 7:30 p.m. […]

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2 w. ago Emergency vehicles respond as WestJet flight from Calgary lands in Moncton

Email from company says 'mechanical abnormality' observed during Flight WS408, without elaborating

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3 w. ago Photographer captures most Toronto moment as pigeon takes over TIFF red carpet

Among all of the famous faces in town for the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), one unlikely character has managed to completely steal the show on at least one of the distinguished event's red carpets: a local pigeon.Though not the official animal mascots of the city, our common pigeons come in close second, regularly and belovedly anthropomorphized as they tactfully ride our transit, steal our food, and befriend their fellow residents (or even serve as pets).Unfortunately, they're often misrepresented and misunderstood, considered by some to be little more than dirty pests. But one member of the Columbidae family took it upon themselves to buck that reputation this week and try their hand at the high life at a posh, star-studded premiere.If you've been following this year's TIFF happenings on social media, you may have seen the speck...

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: Blue Jays’ Heineman has his Crash Davis moment in 14th pro season

Tyler Heineman has a long list of change of address cards. He’s spent his summers in his share of good hotels and bad motels. He’s lived in a whole bunch of good and bad apartments. He’s moved from Tri-City to Lancaster to Corpus Christi to Lehigh Valley to Fresno to Biloxi. City to city. State […]

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: Blue Jays’ Tyler Heineman has his Crash Davis moment in 14th pro season

Tyler Heineman has a long list of change of address cards. He’s spent his summers in his share of good hotels and bad motels. He’s lived in a whole bunch of good and bad apartments. He’s moved from Tri-City to Lancaster to Corpus Christie to Lehigh Valley to Fresno to Biloxi. City to city. State […]

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3 w. ago WestJet Flight Attendants Ensure Passenger Safety During Suspected Landing Gear Failure in St. Maarten

Calgary, AB — CUPE 8125, representing WestJet flight attendants, is commending the professionalism and swift action of crew members following a suspected landing gear failure on WestJet flight 2276 at Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) yesterday. At 17:29 UTC, the aircraft experienced what is being described as a landing gear failure and emergency protocols were […]

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3 w. ago Canada’s transportation safety board to investigate St. Maarten WestJet hard landing

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is sending a team of investigators to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten to investigate the rough landing of a WestJet plane yesterday. The safety board says it will gather information and assess what happened to flight WS2276 from Toronto that experienced a hard landing upon arrival […]

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3 w. ago See the moment Toronto flight's landing gear collapsed touching down in St. Maarten

Multiple videos shared on social media over the weekend show the shocking moment a WestJet flight out of Toronto made a hard landing in St. Maarten, a tropical destination located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon at the island's Princess Juliana International Airport and involved a WestJet Boeing 737-800 aircraft, operating as flight WS2276 from Toronto Pearson Airport. Videos taken from several angles show the aircraft made a hard landing at 1:31 p.m., resulting in a small cloud of smoke on the runway. The airport confirmed that despite 164 passengers being onboard, no injuries were reported, although three people were taken for medical evaluation out of an abundance of caution. Today a WestJet B-737 had a right main landing gear collapse while landing at St. Marteen. No one was hurt. Jet [Reg. "C-GWSR"] was operating as Flight WS2276, inbound from Toronto. Updates later. pic.twitter.com/a1T7UEprcm&m...

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3 w. ago Un incident lors de l’atterrissage d’un avion de WestJet en provenance de Toronto

Un avion de la compagnie aérienne WestJet en provenance de Toronto a rencontré un problème au moment de son atterrissage sur l'Île de Saint-Martin.

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3 w. ago WestJet flight from Toronto has rough landing in St. Maarten’s airport

WestJet says a flight travelling from Toronto had a rough landing at an airport on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten on Sunday afternoon. The airline issued a statement on their website, saying the flight WS2276 from Toronto experienced a hard landing upon arrival at Princess Juliana International at around 1 p.m. ET. It says […]

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