Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index suffered a broad-based pullback on the final Monday of 2024, while U.S. markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 175.81 points at 24,620.59. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 418.48 points at 42,573.73. The S&P 500 index was down 63.90 points at 5,906.94, […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s labour ministry is investigating an industrial accident on the Toronto set of “Beast Games,” the newly released Prime Video competition series from YouTube star MrBeast. The ministry says a worker was injured by falling wood on Sept. 11 on the set, a miniature village constructed for the show on the grounds of […]

Police say a man who attempted to rob a bank in Hamilton earlier this month had to flee the scene on foot after someone stole his getaway bicycle. Hamilton police say a man entered a BMO bank on Upper Paradise Road on Dec. 18, approached a teller and passed them a note demanding cash. They […]

WINDSOR, Ont. — Police in Windsor, Ont., are investigating an apartment fire that left one person dead in the city’s west end early this morning. Police say emergency crews were called around 7 a.m. to a fire at a ground-floor apartment on Sandwich Street. They say firefighters extinguished the blaze. Police say a 71-year-old woman […]

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — James Hagens watched Macklin Celebrini closely last season as the player eventually picked No. 1 at the NHL Draft went about his business on the ice in impressive fashion. Hagens was perhaps even more focused on how Celebrini stayed sharp amid all the attention. “Never let anything affect him,” he said. […]

OTTAWA — Axel Sandin-Pellikka loves a good dangle. The defenceman idolized Patrick Kane as a kid after his dad brought a Chicago Blackhawks jersey home to Sweden with the stickhandling wizard’s No. 88 stitched on the back. Sandin-Pellikka was mesmerized by the star forward’s quick hands and deft touch. He’s now got plenty of that […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was down more than 200 points in late-morning trading Monday, led by weakness in technology and base metals, while U.S. markets also fell, led by a 1.4 per cent loss on the Nasdaq. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 219.65 points at 24,576.75. In New York, the Dow Jones […]

TORONTO — For a team hoping to rebound after a last-place finish in 2024, the Toronto Blue Jays have had a relatively quiet off-season. That will need to change in a significant way if Canada’s lone big-league club is going to improve in 2025. First baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the face of the franchise, still […]

TORONTO — CIBC says paying down debt is the top financial priority for Canadians heading into 2025. In its annual Financial Priorities poll, CIBC found Canadians continue to see rising costs for household goods and high interest rates as their biggest financial concerns. Keeping up with bill payments is the second biggest priority for respondents. […]

OTTAWA — The head of the North American Aerospace Defence Command says Chinese and Russian air co-operation in the Arctic has Norad’s “full attention.” Those two countries for the first time staged a joint patrol in the Arctic near the coast of Alaska last July. U.S. Gen. Gregory Guillot told The Canadian Press in a […]