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TORONTO — Strength in the energy stocks helped lift Canada’s main stock index higher in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets moved lower. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 80.34 points at 22,064.42. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 135.12 points at 39,340.78. The S&P 500 index was down 8.86 points […]

TORONTO — Sun Life Financial Inc. has named Timothy Deacon as its new chief financial officer, effective April 8. Deacon joins the insurer from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board where he held the same role. He succeeds Manjit Singh, who is now president of Sun Life Asia. Singh is expected to continue in his […]

TORONTO — Former Toronto mayor John Tory is set to rejoin the board of directors at Rogers Communications Inc. Tory is listed among the 14 proposed management nominees in the company’s information circular ahead of Rogers’ annual meeting set for April 24. He previously served as a Rogers director from 2010 to 2014 and chief […]

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario is extending a 5.7-cent per litre cut to the provincial gas tax until the end of the year. Premier Doug Ford made the announcement today about one key affordability item that will be in the budget Tuesday. Ford says it has never been more important to keep costs down for people, […]

TORONTO — A 38-year-old woman is facing multiple charges after a dog attack at a Toronto waterfront playground left a child with life-altering injuries over the weekend. Toronto police say a woman was with an off-leash dog inside the playground area at Little Norway Park near Lake Shore Boulevard West and Bathurst Street at 10:15 […]

TORONTO — Another longtime investor in Gildan Activewear Inc. says it does not trust the company’s current board to oversee a sale process and called on it to hold its annual meeting without delay to allow shareholders to elect new directors. The review of options by the company comes as Gildan has been embroiled in […]

TORONTO — Northland Power Inc. says chief executive Mike Crawley will step down from the top job later this year. The power utility says Crawley will remain with Northland until Sept. 30 as part of a succession plan that includes a global search for a new leader. Northland says board chair John Brace has been […]

TORONTO — Hospitals and long-term care homes spent nearly $1 billion last year to fill shifts with nurses and personal support workers from private staffing agencies, a Ministry of Health document estimates. A November 2023 staffing agency update obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom-of-information request shows that agency use increased from 2021-22 to […]

NORTH BAY, Ont. — Anthony Romani scored twice, Wyatt Kennedy and Sandis Vilmanis each had a goal and two assists, and the North Bay Battalion blitzed the visiting Peterborough Petes 8-3 in Ontario Hockey League action on Sunday at North Bay Memorial Gardens. Ethan Procyszyn, Owen Van Steensel, Dalyn Wakely and Jacob Therrien also scored […]

Elon Musk’s X says it’s funding legal bills for a Canadian doctor previously chastised by regulators for her tweets about COVID-19. In a post to the X News account on Sunday morning, the company formerly known as Twitter wrote that it’s “proud to defend” Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against what it calls “government-supported efforts to […]