WATCH: Multiple people arrested amid rowdy Guelph homecoming parties
Three more people are facing charges in connection with September’s rowdy homecoming party near the University of Guelph.
Fifteen people have been arrested so far, and police continue to search for more suspects.
The three new accused have been identified as men from York Region and Hamilton. They each face two counts of assault causing bodily harm and mischief under $5,000.
Twelve people arrested last week each face charges of assault with a weapon, causing a disturbance and two counts of mischief. One man faces an additional charge of assaulting a police officer with a weapon.
All the accused are between the ages of 17 and 26.
The Sept. 26 party drew up to 15,000 people and resulted in roughly $91,000 in policing costs, a report presented to the Guelph Police Service Board last month showed.
Video from the event showed partygoers throwing objects into large crowds, while students described glass bottles, metal water bottles, sticks and other debris being hurled through the air.
Some students told Global News they chose to leave when the situation escalated.
Police were out in full force during the gathering and eventually deployed tactical officers to help restore order.
Emergency responders treated multiple people for injuries, including cuts and lacerations, and responded to several intoxication-related medical calls.
The report identified 11 criminal incidents associated with the gathering, including seven assaults, one offensive weapons occurrence, one disturb-the-peace occurrence, one mischief involving public property and one mischief involving a vehicle.
Six arrests were made during the event. Four involved public intoxication, one involved an alleged assault and one involved causing a disturbance.
Roughly 70 provincial offence notices were issued as well, with most involving open liquor.
Four property damage reports were made, including damage to a Guelph Transit bus shelter, two vehicles on Chancellor’s Way and other personal property. Several businesses also filed complaints that remain under investigation, the report said.
The investigation remains ongoing.
Police have announced they’re forming a working group with the city, the University of Guelph and Guelph General Hospital to help manage large, unsanctioned gatherings.
A Lest We Forget bracelet is pictured atop poppies on the Tomb of the Unknown Solider following Remembrance Day service at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Canadians across the country are marking Remembrance Day, honouring those who died in military service.
The National Remembrance Day ceremony is being held at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, where Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to attend at 10:45 a.m. Eastern.
The ceremony will begin with a veterans’ march, followed by the arrival of various dignitaries including the Speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate, the minister of veterans affairs, the chief of the defence staff, the Silver Cross Mother and the governor general, who will receive the vice-regal salute and inspect the assembled troops for the commemoration.
Global News will be streaming special live coverage of the national ceremony here.
The marching contingent is scheduled to form up at 10:10 a.m. Eastern, with the step off scheduled at 10:30 a.m.
The ceremony will conclude with the veterans’ march-past at 11:30 a.m. Eastern.
As trade tensions with the U.S. persist, Canada's finance minister met with China’s vice-premier Monday to discuss new trade opportunities, and even a mutual “waiver” of tariffs until 2028. Asked if improved relations with China could jeopardize Canada’s trade relationship with the U.S., François-Philippe Champagne shut down the idea.
Prime Minister Mark Carney takes off Wednesday for summits in Asia and Ireland where he’ll look to advance trade and security ties.
His travels will take him to four countries and put him on the ground as high-stakes diplomacy takes place between the United States, China and Russia.
Vina Nadjibulla, co-founder of the Centre for Strategic Statecraft, said the trip is Canada’s chance to build on new agreements and partnerships it has signed with countries around the world.
“We’re now entering a much more consequential phase of actually implementing and delivering on all of these agreements, and sustaining the momentum,” she said.
“When Prime Minister Carney speaks about diversifying our relationships, it’s not just about Europe.”
The prime minister is set to depart for Dublin shortly after the Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa.
Carney will attend the European Political Community summit in Dublin, set for Nov. 12. For the second time, Canada will be the only non-European country represented at the table. Carney joined the group’s last meeting in Armenia in May.
The EPC summits have taken place roughly every six months since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The informal meetings are aimed at discussing strategic co-operation in politics, security and infrastructure.
Carney and European Union leaders have floated Canada becoming an “associate member” of the EU since the last summit — a title they have yet to define.
After Dublin, Carney will cross both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to visit Manila, where the Philippines is hosting Canada as a guest at the Nov. 15–18 summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
ASEAN is a bloc of 11 countries that focuses on trade, regional peace and international norms. Canada is set to finalize negotiations on two trade deals while Carney is in Manila, one with the ASEAN bloc and another bilateral deal with the Philippines. He could even sign one of them while he’s there.
The prime minister has a meeting scheduled for Saturday with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and will address ASEAN leaders on Sunday.
Queen’s University professor Stéphanie Martel, who studies Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific, said the visit will help shape the Indo-Pacific strategy the Trudeau government released four years ago. That strategy focused on making Ottawa a relevant partner in the region after years of sporadic engagement.
“It’s becoming kind of a cliché to refer to Canada as this fairweather friend,” she said.
Martel said Carney has focused on trade and maritime defence but less on local concerns about climate change resilience and gender-inclusive militaries.
“There’s a lot of action in terms of specific trade deals and specific sectors. But the overall engagement and the ability of Canada to be seen as this serious, comprehensive contributor to the region is still up for debate,” she said.
In the Philippines, Carney will be joined by Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu and Gender Minister Rechie Valdez, who is of Filipino origin.
Carney will then visit the Francophonie summit in Cambodia set for Nov. 14 to 16. He’s expected to meet with leaders from Africa and other continents while in the capital Phnom Penh.
Canada is hosting the next Francophonie summit in 2028 in the Ottawa area. Carney is expected to use the gathering to advance Canada’s strategic autonomy and protect the role of French in the growing digital economy.
Francophonie members will elect their next leader in Cambodia and Ottawa says it is staying neutral to avoid affecting the next summit.
On Sunday, the prime minister is set to address CEOs at the FrancoTech innovation event at the summit. On Monday, he is set to give plenary remarks.
Dominique Caouette, Indo-Pacific studies chair at the University of Montreal’s political science department, said the Francophonie summit is an opportunity for Canada and Quebec to advance economic interests.
“The Francophonie could also serve as a platform for Mr. Carney toward the middle powers. There are several that are part of the Francophonie. It’s another space where Canada could play an influential role,” Caouette said in a French-language interview.
The summit will feature both Carney and Quebec Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who was elected on a sovereigntist mandate aimed at pushing back on Ottawa. Caouette said he doesn’t expect the two to clash.
“It’s not in the Canadian or Quebec tradition to air one’s dirty laundry in public,” he said.
Carney will be joined in Cambodia by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and her parliamentary secretary Mona Fortier. Before his arrival, Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour will lead Canada’s delegation at the summit.
Carney’s last stop will be China’s tech hub of Shenzhen for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit, set for Nov. 18 to 19. Leaders from across the Pacific Rim will gather in the city bordering Hong Kong to take stock of an increasingly disordered trading system.
Nadjibulla said the summit allows for bilateral and “minilateral” discussions that bring leaders together in small groups to advance common goals. She said the APEC meetings themselves have taken on less importance, thanks to the diverging interests of Russia, the U.S. and China.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit.
The meeting has European leaders worried about a possible impact on Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Analysts are also watching for any updates on Trump’s war on Iran.
Carney’s visit will come just days after China extended a deal to provide market access to Canadian imports such as canola meal and lobster, in exchange for Canadian market access for Chinese steel and aluminum.
Xi and Carney are set to meet Tuesday and he will address business leaders the next day.
Nadjibulla said she’ll be watching for any economic announcements, such as a move to allow more Chinese vehicles into Canada or new Chinese investments in energy and technology.
“The warming, the recalibration of the relationship has been moving at a rapid pace,” Nadjibulla said, adding that any moves could affect trade talks with the U.S.
In China, Carney will be joined by his parliamentary secretary Kody Blois and Anand.
Carney is set to return to Ottawa on Nov. 19.
The federal Conservatives have criticized Carney’s overseas deals, arguing that the signed agreements have not yielded significant gains and are distracting the government’s attention from the affordability crisis.
The Liberals argue facetime between leaders is critical to diversifying trade and building more resilient supply chains and security partnerships.
WATCH: Silver Cross Mother's message to families grieving Wainwright fire
Four soldiers killed in a fire during a training exercise at CFB Wainwright will be honoured at a community Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday.
Pte. Shaun Farrell, 23, Pte. Aidan Goulding, 23, Pte. Hayden Lykkemark, 19 and Sgt. Morgan Wong, 26, died in the Oct. 17 blaze at the military base, which is southeast of Edmonton.
Roughly 84 soldiers with the Charlie Company unit of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry were taking part in attack training when the fire occured. The Canadian Armed Forces said strong winds sent flames from a grass fire basically on top of them.
Roughly 300 members of the regiment are set to attend the Remembrance Day service in St. Albert, which is northwest of Edmonton.
The regiment will march in a parade to the cenotaph. There will also be a memorial Air Force flypast.
Globalnews.ca will live stream the ceremony beginning at 10:30 a.m. local time.
Few species on this planet can make a noise like 10,000 screaming teenage girls. That’s a lot of lung power, but it can come at a serious health cost–and I don’t mean one’s hearing.
In 2017, The Journal of Emergency Medicine entitled “Screaming your Lungs Out! A Case of Boy Band-Induced Pneumothorax, Pneumomediastinum, and Pneumoretropharyngeum.” It warns of the effects of prolonged screaming by young women at boy band concerts.
Basically, they can scream and sing so long and so hard that lungs may spontaneously collapse, requiring immediate medical treatment. I quote: “Spontaneous pneumothorax has been linked with multiple activities leading to acute increases in transpulmonary pressure (e.g., weightlifting, diving, and military flying). This particular case suggests that forceful screaming during pop concerts should be added to that list.”
Downtown Montreal is seen on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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A new report has found that Quebec’s regions have closed the economic gap with Ontario, even as the wealthgap between Toronto and Montreal remains.
The report by the Institut du Québec research group finds that Quebec’s gross domestic product per capita was 91 per cent of Ontario’s in 2011, when Toronto and Montreal were excluded.
The group says that gap was nearly closed by 2022, when the per capita GDP of Quebec’s regions reached 99 per cent of Ontario’s.
However, the report found the spread between the two Canadian metropolitan areas did not narrow, with per capita GDP in Montreal remaining at about 80 per cent of Toronto’s.
Institut du Québec economist Jean-Baptiste Vallantin-Dulac says Montreal hasn’t necessarily performed poorly, but that Toronto’s economy is heavily based on the lucrative finance and insurance sectors.
The research group warns that the gap between Montreal and Toronto may widen if Quebec doesn’t reverse its immigration policies to attract a highly-skilled workforce.
Drenching rain that has been soaking southern British Columbia for days could ease Wednesday— but the reprieve might be short-lived, with yet another storm system on the way.
Environment Canada meteorologist Michael Gismondi says there will be a possible lull this morning before the rain is expected to re-intensify later.
It’s part of a series of atmospheric river systems that have been battering the coast this week, and Gismondi says the wet conditions are expected to persist into the weekend.
Orange rainfall warnings that were raised by Environment Canada on Monday remain in place for Howe Sound and the Sea to Sky regions, with upwards of 160 millimetres of rain predicted, as well as western and inland Vancouver Island, where amounts could top 250 millimetres.
The weather office also warns residents of central B.C. that a “strong and slow-moving” system is bringing damaging winds, with gusts reaching around 100 kilometres an hour in some areas, before easing tonight.
It says utility outages are likely and driving may be difficult as there is risk of injury due to falling debris.
B.C.’s Transportation Ministry is also urging drivers to monitor conditions and prepare for high winds, heavy rainfall and possible flooding in southern coastal regions for the rest of the week.
Flood watches continue to cover much of Vancouver Island and the South Coast.
On Tuesday, British Columbia’s River Forecast Centre issued high streamflow advisories for southern Vancouver Island and the Fraser Valley.
Jeff Rath faces mounting questions over his finances as his dispute with Tallcree First Nation intensifies.
Alberta lawyer and separatist leader Jeffrey Rath and his wife sold a waterfront estate in B.C. for $6.6 million – more than $4 million above its purchase price – while his firm fought a court order to refund millions to a First Nation client, Global News has found.
In March 2021, an Alberta judge ordered Rath’s firm to refund $8.5 million in legal fees to Tallcree First Nation. Rath and his firm appealed, and three months later, while the lawsuit continued, the couple sold their Galiano Island estate.
In the months that followed that sale, Rath signed documents transferring his interest in the couple’s Calgary home to his wife, Dayna Laverick-Rath, for a stated $1 and granting her a $10-million collateral mortgage over his Foothills ranch, property records show.
Jeffrey Rath sold his Galiano Island estate in 2021 for $2 million less than asking. Clarence Debelle.
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What happened to the proceeds of the Galiano sale, and the financial implications of the subsequent property transactions, remain unclear. Five years later, however, Tallcree is still fighting for that refund.
As Global News previously reported, Tallcree chief Rupert Meneen is suing Rath and his firm, RathPC, for nearly $15 million over disputed trust withdrawals, including the $8.5-million refund and millions in administration fees. The First Nation has now asked a court to expand an investigative receiver’s powers from investigating Rath’s finances to taking control of assets and recovering the money.
The lawsuit sparked further legal battles with other First Nations and American litigation funders, with more than $150 million in disputed debts, legal fees and allegedly unauthorized trust withdrawals at stake.
As lawyers scrutinize Rath’s finances and asset disclosures, Global examined records beyond his sworn testimony.
That investigation uncovered the Galiano estate sale and Calgary property transfer, which have not surfaced in court proceedings.
Rath has been questioned in court about the $10 million mortgage, however. He said it arose from a matrimonial property agreement and denied it was intended to protect assets from creditors.
Rath did not respond to questions for this story. However, he briefly spoke to Global on Oct. 17 during the lead-up to the Alberta referendum, characterizing the litigation as a “fee dispute” and saying First Nations had agreed to payments for legal services under agreed terms.
“Everybody understands what it is that they’ve agreed to pay,” he said. “At the end of the day, you know, they want to fight about it.”
Global also uncovered a 2019 letter, recently filed in court, in which Rath promised Tallcree beneficiaries his firm would charge no trustee fees — despite RathPC later billing the trust millions.
The investigation also examined court filings Rath submitted in September seeking the urgent release of $280,000 for horse-related expenses.
Rath warned that his horses’ health and safety were “in peril,” but several creditors told Global they had gone unpaid long before his assets were frozen.”
Rath estimated in court that he owns between 10 and 30 horses in Canada and the United States.
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“For several months, he would just not pick up the phone,” Renee Wilson of Crawford Racing told Global.
“The horses are not worth what he owes me, I’ve been trying to get him to send me a transfer to take them to the sales,” Wilson said.
Wilson said Rath owed her about US$50,000 for horse care dating back to February, although he only included a US$13,000 invoice from her in his September application.
“He finally answered month and said his accounts have been frozen, but not what they were frozen for.”
But Wilson also criticized the government for freezing Rath’s assets, saying it unfairly burdened those caring for his horses.
“That’s wrong for the animals,” she said. “I don’t care who’s a bad person or not a bad person.”
Rath’s financial disclosures have been under the microscope in recent months, after an Alberta court froze his assets under a Mareva injunction and appointed an investigative receiver to trace the disputed funds.
Silver Gold Bull, a precious-metals trading platform, has emerged as a central player in the financial dealings. Documents show it received most of the $8.5-million million that was ordered to be refunded to Tallcree, while Rath continued trading through the platform. Meneen alleges those later transactions involved disputed trust funds.
Among the transactions now being examined are approximately $200,000 worth of silver coins, prompting a contentious exchange in cross-examination over their whereabouts. Rath testified that he gave the coins to Laverick-Rath as a Christmas Eve gift in 2025.
“She filed for divorce, and we lived in separate residences, and I was hoping to reconcile, but we were still separated,” he said, during an October cross-examination.
However, purchase records show about $100,000 worth of those coins were bought after Christmas, on Dec. 27 and Jan. 7.
Questioning about the coins grew acrimonious. When Meneen’s lawyer asked how Rath had brought the boxes home, he replied: “I flew like a fairy. I drove in my car.”
He then called the questions “stupid” and “such a waste of time.”
Laverick-Rath died in June.
Rath maintained that the coins he gave his wife belonged to her estate. “It’s not mine to hand over to the receiver,” he testified.
Requests for her will and probate records remain unanswered, according to court filings.
Her estate has also come under scrutiny over Rath’s Alberta property holdings and mortgage arrangements.
During a September cross-examination, Rath said he had owned property in Vancouver but could not recall when he sold it, for how much or to whom, later estimating the sale was more than five or six years ago.
Global could not identify that property but found one Rath sold about five years ago on picturesque Galiano Island, off the B.C. coast.
Rath and Laverick-Rath jointly acquired two properties on the island for a combined $2.49 million in 2006 and 2008, according to land-title records.
Together, the properties formed Blue Raven Estate, a 9.4-acre waterfront compound featuring a nearly 5,000-square-foot main house, two guest houses, two deep-water docks, a helipad and a private four-hole golf course, archived real estate listings state.
Blue Raven estate was first listed for $8.58 million in December 2018.
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The estate was listed for $8.58 million in December 2018. That was four months after another First Nation client, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, sought a review of Rath’s legal fees, according to court documents. However, records show his lawyers were not formally served until later that December.
That same month, an American litigation funder registered a broad-based security interest over Rath’s professional corporation and advanced an initial $10 million under a funding agreement, separate documents show.
The couple sold it in July 2021 for $6.6 million — $2 million below asking but $4.11 million above their combined purchase prices, land-title records show.
Within weeks of the sale, Rath transferred his interest in the couple’s $1.7-million Calgary home to Laverick-Rath for a stated $1. Three months later, she was granted a $10-million collateral mortgage against three properties at his Foothills ranch.
Rath did not respond to Global News questions about the property transactions.
Meneen is also challenging more than $4.8 million in administration fees charged by Rath, but a recent court-filed letter reveals a pledge at odds with those charges.
The original 2017 Tallcree trust agreement allowed RathPC to charge trustee fees.
But in March 2019, beneficiaries were preparing to vote on whether to retain Rath’s firm as trustee or transfer control of the settlement funds to the Bank of Montreal.
In a letter accompanying the ballots, Rath said his firms “do not charge a fee for acting as Trustee.
“Should Jeffrey R. W. Rath Professional Corporation continue to administer the Trust, it will continue to charge no fee in accordance with its practice to date.”
Beneficiaries voted 59-32 to keep Rath.
A month later, according to court documents, Rath allegedly told a Tallcree beneficiary his firm charged no administration fees and had “no intention of doing so,” claiming the Law Society monitored trust withdrawals.
The regulator told Global it does not.
Asked in September why he had no time records to justify $4.8 million in fees, Rath said he stopped tracking his hours in February 2018, because he planned to charge a percentage instead.
Confronted with the apparent contradiction related to the trustee fees, Rath insisted his statement had been “true at the time” and denied misleading beneficiaries. However, he said he could not recall correcting or updating the written promise.
On Sept. 11, Rath asked an Alberta court to unfreeze nearly $800,000 for personal and legal expenses, including almost $280,000 for overdue horse-related bills. He warned that his horses’ health and safety were “in peril,” submitting urgent invoices from trainers, veterinarians and others in Canada and the U.S.
But when Global contacted the creditors, several described bills that had gone unpaid for more than a year — long before Rath’s assets were frozen.
“I call him and he doesn’t answer the phone,” said Angel Diaz, a horse trainer in Menifee, California, who said Rath owed him more than $5,200, and the debt had accumulated over about a year.
Judy Hicks of Brookstown Farm, near Versailles, Kentucky, said: “He’s never been paid up for the two years he was here.”
“The reason was that, while his wife was alive, he told me it was because he didn’t want her to know he had horses. Because she did not approve of him having horses.”
Rath built a career helping First Nations sue Canada and Alberta, securing treaty and claims settlements worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Candice Foster, an Oklahoma horse hauler, said repeated attempts to collect a $1,000 bill for transporting one of Rath’s horses in December 2025 had gone unanswered.
But trainer John Ennis, who received a payment from RathPC in February, according to court-filed financial records, said his dealings with Rath had been “really good.”
“I’m sure Rath will get around to paying. He’s a good guy.”
Justice Lorena Harris rejected Rath’s application, finding his financial disclosures were “materially incomplete.”
Rath described his racehorses, which have earned nearly $500,000 in gross winnings since 2021 according to Equibase, as a “hobby,” but acknowledged using them for business purposes. Tallcree alleges trust funds helped finance the horses, a claim Rath disputes.
His troubles have since extended beyond the courtroom. In October, Alberta Prosperity Project board members voted to remove him from his roles, a decision Rath disputes, while the United Conservative Party expelled him on Oct. 29.
Rath remains defiant, accusing Premier Danielle Smith’s office of orchestrating a media campaign against him.
TORONTO – The Maple Leafs had worked hard to get back on level terms.
Down 3-1 late in the second period Tuesday night, Easton Cowan snuck a shot through Avalanche goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood as a power play expired to cut the deficit in half.
Jack Roslovic then tied the game early in the third on a terrific individual effort.
The good vibes were short-lived.
Toronto was back trailing less than a minute later, undone once again by a series of egregious mistakes at an inopportune time, when Colorado captain Gabriel Landeskog was left unmarked to bury his second goal of the game in what would end in a 6-3 victory for the visitors.
“We made multiple poor decisions — multiple — and it’s usually how hockey works,” said Maple Leafs head coach Jim Hiller, whose club has lost four straight in regulation and six of seven overall. “Sometimes you make a bad decision and hopefully somebody cleans it up. You can’t make one, two, three poor decisions in a row … and veteran players, you can’t have it.
“You just can’t have it, and that’s how you lose. It’s just plain and simple.”
Raddysh tried to get off the ice before the winner, but was stuck out for a 75-second shift before eventually losing Landeskog in front, while Toronto winger William Nylander was slow to react to his wide-open opponent.
“You’re gonna take your chances and try to make hockey plays,” said Raddysh, who scored his first goal for the Maple Leafs in the opening period. “I’d like to have that change back. I was just trying to make a read. I thought I could get off, but ultimately ends up in the back of the net.
“That ends up being the key.”
It was also a sequence of events Hiller, in his first season as Maple Leafs bench boss, as seen far too often for an injury-hit squad that sits 8-10-2 — good for second-last in the Atlantic Division through 20 games — after missing the playoffs for the first time in a decade last spring.
“Our results suck,” said Hiller, who was a Toronto assistant from 2015 through 2019. “You can write those stories, there’s no question, and we deserve that. But we’ve played some good hockey at times, and I thought (Tuesday) was another night where, for a large part of the game, we played some really good hockey.
“Didn’t win.”
Toronto goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky allowed five goals on 27 shots, marking the 12th time in 13 starts the two-time Stanley Cup and Vezina Trophy winner has seen three or more pucks get past him in 2026-27 after signing a three-year, US$21-million contract in free agency.
“We have to put all the things — all the good things — together,” said the 38-year-old Bobrovsky, who is on a personal five-game losing streak and owns an ugly 3-8-2 record with an .881 save percentage and a 3.34 goals-against average. “When things are not going our way, just keep it simple … protect the middle and play a simple defensive game.”
Hiller was asked directly about how Bobrovsky, who also allowed four goals or more for the fifth time in blue and white this season, fits into the group’s current struggles.
“Been like the team,” he said. “We’ve had great moments and we’ve had not great moments. We just haven’t had enough great moments together, and we’ve had the inopportune moments at the same time.
“It’s across the board.”
Toronto’s crowded trainer’s room currently includes injured top-line winger Kirill Marchenko, veteran defenceman Morgan Rielly and depth centre Colton Sisson. The Maple Leafs have also had to do without forward John Tavares and shutdown blueliner Chris Tanev for long stretches.
“I don’t want to make excuses,” Hiller said. “Our record is what it is. It’s deserved. I think we could have a better record, but we don’t. We are what we are, and it’s a lot of different things.
“But I like the guys. I like the team. We’re going to come out of it. It just really, really sucks. And the only way out is stay together and work.”
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Tanev returned to the Toronto lineup after sitting out Sunday’s 4-0 loss to the New Jersey Devils on the second half of a back-to-back.
The 36-year-old was held out for load management purposes as the organization tries to manage a key piece that was limited to just 11 games last season — and has already missed nine in 2026-27 with an upper-body injury.
“I don’t agree with it, but understand where he’s coming from,” Tanev said of Maple Leafs general manager John Chayka’s plan following Tuesday’s morning skate. “Haven’t really been healthy for the last year, so I think he wants me to be able to play in January and February and March. I guess being available during that stretch will benefit the team.
“I do think John wants what’s best for me.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 11, 2026.
The Ottawa Senators had one of their better performances of the season on Tuesday but still ended up in the loss column.
The Senators (11-6-2) outworked, outmuscled and outshot the Washington Capitals but couldn’t outscore the visitors, falling 3-2 in overtime.
The bright side was the fact they still managed to earn a point.
The Senators have been without starting goaltender Linus Ullmark for almost three weeks but have managed to hold their own and play some impressive hockey.
The Senators have gone 4-3-2 without Ullmark, thanks in large part to 27-year-old Samuel Ersson of Sweden, who seems to be finding his game, and the team remaining committed to smart decisions with and without the puck.
Tuesday was a perfect example. Washington scored on its first shot and outshot Ottawa 11-5 in the opening 20 minutes.
From the start of the second, the Senators dominated and outshot the Capitals 17-2 — holding the American squad without a shot for more than 21 minutes.
“I thought we played awesome tonight,” said Senators head coach Travis Green. “It was one of our better games of the year.”
Not one to be lavish in his praise, Green said he liked everything about his team’s game.
“Thought we checked well,” he said. “We created a lot. Put a lot of pressure on the back end.”
Early in the season the Senators often had to rely on Tim Stutzle and Drake Batherson to carry the offensive load, but in their last three games Ottawa has been getting depth scoring from the likes of Michael Amadio, Fabian Zetterlund, Ridly Greig and Nick Cousins. Even Ottawa’s fourth line is chipping in with Hayden Hodgson picking up a goal Tuesday.
Ottawa will likely be without Cousins for the next few games after taking a big hit from Washington’s Jakob Chychrun.
Cousins took the impact from the hit but then bounced his head off the glass before falling hard to the ice. No penalty was called on the play and he required assistance to leave the game.
Cousins is the type of player who does not always show up on the scoresheet but his impact is unmistakable. He has the ability to play up and down the lineup, plays the role of agitator and knows how to bring out the best of his teammates. He is the energy guy many teams consider invaluable.
“I think everybody hates these scenes in hockey and any sport,” said Senators captain Thomas Chabot. “Obviously, you’re aware it’s part of the game, but it’s a lot more than the game of hockey, and it sucks seeing him like that.”
Green didn’t have much of an update on Cousin post-game other than to say “he’s not doing great.”
The Senators have been hit hard by injuries through the first 19 games of the season. They were without Jake Sanderson for eight games, Artem Zub missed seven and Chabot missed four. Forward Warren Foegele has now missed six, while Andre Burakovsky has been in and out of the lineup and they lost William Eklund after just four games with a torn tendon in his ankle. Ullmark has missed nine games.
Despite the rash of injuries the Senators are committing to Green’s system and getting rewarded.
“There’s times you might not play your best hockey and you’ll end up winning the game,” Chabot said. “And there’s times you’ll feel like you played great hockey and you end up losing.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 10, 2026.
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