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TORONTO — Toronto’s police chief says an officer who was shot today has serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The officer was rushed to hospital after being shot in the city’s midtown area around 5:30 p.m., and police are still searching for a suspect. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Canadian Press reporter Hina Alam is this year’s recipient of Innocence Canada’s Tracey Tyler Award in recognition of her reporting on the case of two wrongfully convicted New Brunswick men. Alam’s coverage began in a Saint John, N.B., courtroom in January where Walter Gillespie and Robert Mailman were exonerated on decades-old murder charges. […]

OTTAWA — Members of targeted diasporas in Canada are calling for greater awareness of the foreign threats they face as well as more robust protections that could save lives. Representatives of various communities told a federal inquiry Wednesday of the numerous challenges of fighting foreign meddling and repression. The commission of inquiry’s latest hearings are […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say an officer has been rushed to hospital after being shot in the city’s midtown area. Police say it happened around 5:30 p.m. after officers stopped a vehicle while conducting an investigation in the Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue area. They say one person was arrested at the scene and another […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays moved quickly by making some coaching changes after a last-place finish in the American League East. Now the heavy lifting begins. General manager Ross Atkins has his work cut out for him entering the off-season. The offence requires a big boost, the bullpen needs an overhaul and star players […]

TORONTO — Amazon Web Services’ director of global artificial intelligence is encouraging Canada not to go it alone when it comes to regulating the technology. Nicole Foster says Canada should settle on AI legislation that is interoperable with guardrails other countries use. If Canada goes for a bespoke set of regulations, she says it would […]

TORONTO — The head of Canada’s banking regulator says the recent decision to relax a mortgage stress test rule was shaped in part by concerns about public perception of the agency. Superintendent of Financial Institutions Peter Routledge says the removal of the need to stress test uninsured mortgages when borrowers are making a straight switch […]

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is upping the ante for the Liberals, threatening to move toward an election as early as next week if the government doesn’t back a plan to increase old age security payments. Most Liberals voted against a Bloc motion on Wednesday calling for the government to give a royal […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index retreated from its all-time high on Wednesday, weighed down by telecom, industrial and utilities stocks, while U.S. markets drifted higher. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 32.44 points at 24,001.55. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 39.55 points at 42,196.52. The S&P 500 index was […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Iran’s missile attack on Israel Wednesday, but said the international community must do everything it can to help avoid a bigger regional war. Exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon over the last year erupted into broader violence in the last week as Israel ramped up […]