Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index gained more than 350 points Thursday in a broad rally led by energy and technology stocks, while U.S. markets also rose, led by a one-per-cent gain on the Dow. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 354.22 points at 25,390.68. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up […]

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP says his committee colleagues are wasting time by launching a third inquiry into the former employment minister instead of focusing on important legislation for Indigenous Peoples. Jaime Battiste, who is Mi’kmaq, said there has been an “attack” on fellow Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault, who left his position as employment minister […]

TORONTO — The federal government’s “meaty” move to pause federal sales tax on a long list of items and send cheques to millions of Canadians this spring could factor into an improving outlook for growth in 2025, one economist says. Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter says the moves, which will cost about $6.3 […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s Opposition leader is accusing the government of creating a “cash-for-access culture” and is asking the province’s integrity commissioner to look into an upcoming Progressive Conservative party fundraiser with the premier and transportation minister. The fundraiser is billed as an evening with Doug Ford and Prabmeet Sarkaria, and tickets are selling for $1,000. […]

TORONTO — York United FC has promoted assistant coach Mauro Eustaquio to head coach, filling the void left by Mexican Benjamin Mora’s departure. Mora, a finalist for Canadian Premier League coach of the year, left the club earlier this month after five months and 22 matches at the helm. He said he had been unable […]

OTTAWA — A former police officer involved in the case of an Ottawa man who died after a violent arrest and the lawyer representing the man’s family had several testy exchanges today at a coroner’s inquest into the death. Former Const. David Weir is among those testifying at the inquest examining the circumstances of 38-year-old […]

OTTAWA — The Liberal government plans to temporarily lift the federal sales tax off a slew of items just in time for Christmas and send cheques to millions of Canadians this spring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday. “Our government can’t set prices at the checkout, but we can put more money in people’s […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says eligible businesses will be getting a share of $2 billion that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is returning due to a surplus. This marks the second time the WSIB has given a surplus back to employers, having distributed $1.2 billion in 2022. Businesses are eligible if they […]

ALTONA, MANITOBA, CANADA — Manitoba RCMP have issued an arrest warrant for an Ontario truck driver who was allegedly involved in a crash that killed a woman and an eight-year-old girl. Brampton, Ont., resident Navjeet Singh has been charged with two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death as well as obstructing […]

TORONTO — A Toronto woman has been charged in the death of her four-month-old after the child was reported missing on Wednesday. Toronto police allege the father reported the baby was missing shortly before 11:30 a.m. at a residential building in the city’s midtown. They say officers responded to the scene, found the infant and […]