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TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index gained almost 250 points Monday amid a broad rally led by financial, industrial and technology stocks, while U.S. markets also climbed higher, snapping out of last week’s losing streak. “The U.S. market is staging a pretty nice rebound after what was the worst week of the year,” said Mona […]

OTTAWA — The federal government says Canada will challenge recent increases to softwood lumber duties by the United States. International Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada has taken steps to launch two legal challenges under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. Ng describes the duties as unfair and unjust and says they will harm Canadian industry and […]

TORONTO — The Juno Awards have notified committee members that it plans to remove four categories from the 2025 ceremony. In a letter obtained by The Canadian Press, reggae recording, children’s album, Christian/gospel album and international album of the year have all been placed on “hiatus” as part of a “broader set of updates” yet […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say a 16-year-old boy was grazed in the head by a bullet during a shooting in a high school parking lot and officers are searching for a teen suspect. Police say officers responded to a call for a shooting in the parking lot at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, in Toronto’s east end, […]

TORONTO (AP) — The day after the premiere of their film “Nightbitch,” Amy Adams and Marielle Heller are sitting in a Toronto restaurant reflecting on all that went into, as Heller puts it, “birthing” a movie that captures some of the truest, rawest but seldom Instagrammed things about early motherhood. Their film, which writer-director Heller […]

INGERSOLL, Ont. — Unifor says bargaining has begun with General Motors for workers at the automaker’s CAMI assembly plant and battery facility in Ingersoll, Ont. The union says the negotiations will focus on higher pay, job security and better pension plans for its unionized workers. GM is expected to match the pattern set last year […]

TORONTO — Ukrainian officials are calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to pull a documentary about Russian soldiers from its schedule. In a letter to TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, Ukrainian Consul General Oleh Nikolenko said the film “Russians at War” attempts to absolve the soldiers in question of responsibility in the invasion of Ukraine. […]

TORONTO — Health Minister Mark Holland says his government will still work on policies it promised to pursue under its now-defunct deal with the NDP. A week ago, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh ended the pact between the New Democrats and the minority Liberals, before some of the measures had come to fruition. Those include a […]

TORONTO — Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard is a “sexual predator” who showed no empathy for his victims, an Ontario judge said Monday as he sentenced the disgraced tycoon to 11 years in prison for his crimes in Toronto. The 83-year-old’s time behind bars will work out to a little less than seven years after […]

Police in Oshawa, Ont., say a man has been charged in an alleged high-speed fiery crash last month that killed a 41-year-old woman and sent nine other people to hospital. Police say the 40-year-old man faces several charges including dangerous driving causing death and four counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. Durham regional police […]