News of the day: Who is Jim Hiller? New Maple Leafs coach a man of the hockey world

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Published Jun 17, 2026  •  2 minute read

Jim Hiller, formerly head coach of the Los Angeles Kings. Photo by Luke Hales /Getty Images

It’s Wednesday, June 17. Here are the top stories we’re following today:

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Who is Jim Hiller? New Maple Leafs coach a man of the hockey world

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Jim Hiller now walks perhaps the most pressure-packed beat behind a bench in the National Hockey League. Hiller, named the 23rd coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs since Punch Imlach most recently won a Stanley Cup almost 60 years ago, has a good idea of the spotlight that awaits, having assisted Mike Babcock here for a few years and running his own show with the Los Angeles Kings.

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A Canadian flag. Photo by RONALD ZAJAC /Postmedia File

Barrie school draws backlash after replacing Canadian flag with Pride flag

The reaction on social media was largely united after an elementary school in Barrie removed its Canadian flag and replaced it with a Pride flag in honour of Pride Month. “It’s this type of stuff is why people are ripping down Pride flags,” a Reddit user said. “I don’t agree with it but the more authority pushes something the more people are going to push back.”

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The Polar Prince towing Titan. Photo by TSB handout /Courtesy OceanGate

Feds completely missed ‘unregistered’ Titan sub, TSB reveals

Even though Transport Canada was aware OceanGate was using Canadian ports and Canadian-flagged vessels as support craft, they weren’t aware the company’s doomed carbon-fibre submersible held no active registration in any country. In a scathing report into the deadly June 18, 2023, Titan submersible implosion that killed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and four passengers, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board highlighted regulatory blind spots and federal bureaucratic roadblocks that allowed the doomed experimental sub to operate unfettered out of Canadian ports. 

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Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto (BAYT) synagogue on Clark Ave., in Thornhill, was targeted by gunfire on March 6, 2026. Photo by Supplied photo /Supplied photo

WARMINGTON: Toronto guns-for-hire scheme included $1,000-per-shooting payday

For a cool grand per job, people were anonymously ordering up the shooting of Jewish, American and Toronto business targets the same way you order a pizza. It was that easy. And these orders were being delivered devastatingly hot. The going rate to hire a teen gunman over a phone app to shoot up whatever target a criminal or terrorist element wants? According to multiple sources, it was often a $1,000-per-shooting assignment.

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OPP has charged two men from the GTA after busting a contraband tobacco manufacturing facility in Six Nations. Photo by OPP

Alleged contraband tobacco plant busted on Six Nations; $10 million in contraband seized

Ontario Provincial Police have busted a criminal network allegedly producing and manufacturing contraband tobacco on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, seizing more than 40,000 kg of contraband tobacco and 300 kg of shisha tobacco with a street value of more than $10 million. Also seized were a handgun and manufacturing equipment following an investigation that began in April called Project TRACK to help the Six Nations Police Service after a separate incident led to a broader criminal probe.

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