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TORONTO — Ontario has warned Toronto Public Health’s top doctor to drop the city’s drug decriminalization application with Health Canada. Health Minister Sylvia Jones and Solicitor General Michael Kerzner say in a letter to Dr. Eileen de Villa that the province is 100 per cent opposed to the application. Toronto Public Health filed an application […]

TORONTO — Canada’s medallists in Paris will get a bump in podium prize money. A donation by Canadian health-care technology entrepreneur Sanjay Malaviya of Hespeler, Ont., will make a gold medal worth a total of $25,000, silver $20,000 and bronze $15,000 to athletes. The 2024 Olympic Games open July 26 and close Aug. 11 followed […]

TORONTO — Canada Goose Holdings Inc. reported a profit in its fourth quarter compared with a loss a year earlier as its revenue rose 22 per cent. The luxury parka maker says it earned net income attributable to shareholders of $5.0 million or five cents per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31 compared […]

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — ATS Corp. reported a fourth-quarter profit of $48.5 million, up from $29.6 million a year earlier, as its revenue rose 8.3 per cent. The maker of automation systems says the profit amounted to 49 cents per share for the quarter ended March 31, up from 32 cents per share in the same […]

TORONTO — Ontario has told child-care centres that it will implement a new way of funding the national $10-a-day program — something operators have urgently called for — starting in 2025. Child-care centres, including the YMCA, the largest operator in the province, have been warning about the risk of closures if the funding formula isn’t […]

OSHAWA, Ont. — Easton Cowan had one goal and three assists, Kasper Halttunen had two goals and one assist as the London Knights booked their ticket to the Memorial Cup with a 7-1 win over the Oshawa Generals on Wednesday. The Knights swept the Generals in the best-of-seven Ontario Hockey League Championship Series to claim […]

TORONTO — Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse has booked her ticket for the Paris Olympics. The four-time Olympic medallist won the women’s 100-metre backstroke race in 57.94 seconds at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials. Ingrid Wilm of Calgary was second in 59.31 — over a half-second inside the Olympic qualifying time — to lock up a […]

TORONTO — Ontario will revamp how it compensates seasonal agricultural workers who are injured on the job, but critics say thousands of other migrant workers are being left out of the changes.  The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board says the changes affect how the board pays a worker who cannot return to a job due […]

TORONTO — Strength in technology and utility stocks helped Canada’s main stock index inch higher Wednesday, while U.S. stock markets rallied to new record highs after a pair of reports on inflation and retail sales.  The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 41.42 points at 22,284.76. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up […]

DURHAM, Wis. — Police in the Greater Toronto Area say they’ve arrested and charged a man who called himself the “crypto king” after an investigation into an alleged investment fraud involving millions of dollars. Durham Regional Police say 25-year-old Aiden Pleterski has been charged with fraud over $5,000 and laundering proceeds of crime. Police say […]