In the news today: Blue Jays one win away from glory, Yesavage sets rookie record

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…

Blue Jays top Dodgers 6-1 to take 3-2 series lead

Davis Schneider set the early tone on Wednesday night. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. did his part too.

The Toronto teammates made history by leading off a World Series game with back-to-back homers in Game 5 against the L.A. Dodgers. Rookie starter Trey Yesavage took care of the rest.

The right-hander was dominant as Toronto rolled to a 6-1 win to move one victory away from winning the Fall Classic for the first time since 1993. 

Yesavage set a World Series rookie record with 12 strikeouts in just his eighth career big-league start.

Game 6 is set for Friday night at Rogers Centre.

Carney tours Korean shipyard vying to build subs

Prime Minister Mark Carney toured a South Korean submarine on Thursday during a visit to the shipyards of Hanwha Ocean, one of two companies vying to build Canada’s next fleet of submarines. 

Carney was joined by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, along with South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-Seok. 

Hanwha officials also showed off their production facility, which features automated welding by robots. 

Canada plans to buy up to 12 new submarines to replace the navy’s aging Victoria-class fleet, as part of an effort to bolster the military’s presence in the Arctic.

Families of Oct. 7 victims demand meeting with PM

The relatives of Canadians killed by Hamas in Israel two years ago are criticizing Prime Minister Mark Carney for not meeting with them since he took office.

A group called the Association of Families of the Canadian Victims of October 7th went public with their concerns on the two-year anniversary of the attacks earlier this month. In an open letter to Carney, the group said that he had not met with victims’ families, unlike leaders of the U.S., France and the U.K.

“He ignored every message and every letter that we sent him,” said Iris Weinstein Haggai, whose parents were killed by Hamas in the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

“It was just very, very frustrating to understand that my prime minister in Canada doesn’t understand the nightmare I’m in.”

Financial intel key to fentanyl fight, agency says

The federal anti-money laundering agency says it made more than 100 disclosures of “actionable financial intelligence” in support of probes into illicit opioids between last November and the end of March of this year.

In its newly tabled report for 2024-25, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre says the disclosures to law enforcement partners were just one part of the agency’s efforts to curb the proliferation of deadly fentanyl, which has driven a devastating overdose crisis in Canada.

The federal centre, known as Fintrac, identifies cash linked to money laundering and terrorism by sifting through millions of pieces of data annually from banks, insurance companies, securities dealers, money service businesses, real estate brokers, casinos and others. 

The agency then discloses the resulting financial intelligence to its partners, including Canada’s spy agency, the RCMP and other police services.

Wait for core Ontario autism services tops 5 years

When Ashley Ferreira’s five-year-old son was diagnosed with autism in 2020 she never imagined that a five-year wait lay ahead for him to get access to government-funded core therapies.

“I thought that the diagnosis came with help,” she said. “It wasn’t until I started joining Facebook groups like the Ontario Autism Coalition that I was like, ‘Oh.’ It was a slap in the face.”

Families had been reporting wait times for access to core services under the Ontario Autism Program creeping upward in the past several years, so advocates set about doing a survey of the community.

Most Canadian workers support EDI efforts: report

A majority of Canadian workers say they view equity, diversity and inclusion favourably, according to a new report, even in the face of some backlash. 

The report from the Future Skills Centre and researchers at the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University found that 54 per cent of Canadian workers view EDI favourably, while 27 per cent were neutral, and 16 per cent viewed it negatively. The survey was conducted by Environics Institute.

Workplace EDI initiatives in Canada and the U.S. have faced “intensifying scrutiny and backlash” amid policy shifts in the U.S., which have had spillover effects in Canada, the report said.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct.30, 2025