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TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was up in late-morning trading, helped by strength in the financial, telecom and energy sectors, while U.S. stock markets also climbed higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 62.25 points at 24,623.45. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 117.01 points at 43,194.71. The S&P 500 […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to shuffle his cabinet yet again after four more cabinet ministers informed the Prime Minister’s Office they won’t run in the next election. Filomena Tassi has announced she won’t be running for personal reasons, and a senior government source says Marie-Claude Bibeau, Carla Qualtrough and Dan Vandal […]

CALEDON, Ont. — Ontario’s transportation minister says he plans to introduce legislation that would speed up property acquisitions for highways such as the planned Highway 413 and accelerate that project’s environmental assessment. Prabmeet Sarkaria says the proposed changes are part of the first government bill that will be tabled when the legislature resumes Monday from […]

OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government likely failed to keep its deficit below its promised $40 billion cap in the last fiscal year. However the PBO also projects in its latest economic and fiscal outlook today that weak economic growth this year will begin to rebound in 2025. The budget watchdog […]

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the case of a Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the spy agency. In March, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that found Sameer Ebadi should have followed the internal grievance procedures available to him. In the […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s municipalities say upcoming legislation that would require cities to get provincial approval for some bike lanes is a “significant overreach” of power. The Association of Municipalities of Ontario says none of its 444 members were consulted or shown evidence the province is using to justify its proposed veto power over new bike […]

Matt Berry has spent six years playing a suburban New York vampire but he will forever associate “What We Do in The Shadows” with Toronto, where the acclaimed series was filmed. “For me, it’s a Canadian show and a Canadian experience,” the British actor said in a recent interview from London. “If ever anybody mentions […]

TORONTO — Bobby McMann watched from the press box on opening night. Just over a week later, the Maple Leafs winger took a twirl as the first star. McMann went from healthy scratch to unlikely offensive focal point in just eight days, putting up two goals in Toronto’s 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings […]

With the Canadian Curling Trials just over a year away, Curling Canada is still looking for a title sponsor for the showcase event that determines this country’s representatives at the Winter Olympics. Tim Hortons served as title sponsor of both the trials and the national men’s championship — now called the Montana’s Brier — from […]

As tensions escalate between India and Canada, some in the Indian diaspora say they’re concerned about how the situation might affect travel between the two countries. The federal government expelled six Indian diplomats on Monday after the RCMP said it had credible evidence that Indian agents played a role in violent crimes on Canadian soil, […]