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News Update, 8:00am, Thursday October 23rd, 2025

News Update, 8:00am, Thursday October 23rd, 2025
News Desk
Oct 23, 2025 | 8:13 AM
The Maple Leafs and Raptors are changing the start times of their games this weekend so sports fans can watch the Blue Jays in the World Series.
Games 1 and 2 for the Jays  tomorrow and Saturday, start at 8 p-m,
The Raptors were scheduled to host their home opener against Friday at 7:30 p-m, but the start has been moved up to 6:30 p-m.
The Maple Leafs were set to host the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday at 7 p-m now puck drop is at 5 p-m.
Canada is being called upon to ramp up container shipments at smaller ports in the country.
The Chamber of Marine Commerce is calling on the federal government to bolster customs clearance on certain docks for international containers.
There are currently just five ports in Canada where border agents are on hand to examine some of the millions of international shipping containers.
A chamber spokesperson says a commissioned study found that outfitting the half-dozen inland ports with customs processing would ease bottlenecks at the Port of Montreal and generate 132-million-dollars in business income. 
The Ontario government says it will invest 8.6-million-dollars to help more than 17-hundred women across the Greater Toronto Area access training in the skilled trades. 
The province says organizations including Newcomer Women's Services Toronto, Enercare Home Services and Brands for Canada are among those receiving funding to provide the training. 
It says the funding is part of its 2.5-billion-dollar investment in skilled trades to keep Ontario competitive amid U-S tariffs.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is looking at the issue of ticket sales, after Blue Jays fans complained of sky-high resale prices moments after tickets went on sale.
Ford says people are being gouged and that it's not right to have one player in the market controlling the tickets.
In 2019 the Ford government, scrapped part of a law that would have capped ticket resale prices at 50 per cent above the original face value.
Ticketmaster says in a statement resale prices are set by numerous small sellers.
You might not want to rely on AI for your latest news.
A new study has found chatbots make mistakes with news content almost half the time.
The study involved 22 public media organizations in 18 countries, including C-B-C/Radio-Canada, looking at how A-I chatbots answer questions about news and current affairs.
Journalists evaluated more than three-thousand responses provided by a series chatbots like Open-A-I's Chat-G-P-T, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity.
They found at least one significant problem with 45% of A-I answers, serious problems with sourcing in 31% off responses and major accuracy issues in 20% of them.
 
Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in the GTA today.
He starts his day in Bowmanville, joined by Premier Doug Ford, with an announcement about "a generational investment" to create new careers and build Canada’s clean energy future. 
Later this afternoon, Carney will head to Rogers Centre to attend the Blue Jays' practice.