Morning news with Michael Langdon for October 16, 2025

The Toronto Blue Jays have erased a two-game deficit and evened the American League Championship Series with a 8-2 win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 4 and Ontario’s labour minister is defending upwards of 100 million dollars in grants from a controversial government fund to unions or industry organizations that supported the governing Progressive Conservative Party in the last election, and denying that the money’s effect is to reward those organizations for their political support.