Ontario News

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index fell 1.6 per cent Wednesday in a broad-based decline, while U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 367.07 points at 21,897.98.

OTTAWA — A Toronto MP says vandalism that defaced the outside of her constituency office is an "attack on democracy.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,897.98, down 367.07 points): Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Down $1.07, or 1.93 per cent, to $54.47 on 16.0 million shares.

OTTAWA — The federal health minister needs new powers to unilaterally take dangerous products off the shelves if they're hurting people and not being used as intended, Mark Holland said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's housing bill has been defeated in the House of Commons with the Liberals, New Democrats and Bloc Québécois voting against the legislation.

HAMILTON — Nick Taylor is everywhere at the RBC Canadian Open.

TORONTO — An arbitrator has awarded Ontario's elementary teachers a raise of nearly 12 per cent over the course of its four-year deal with the province.

TORONTO — A major Toronto hip-hop music festival has been postponed after organizers say one of its headliners cancelled his appearance.

CHATHAM, Ont. — Almost two years after a 22-year-old woman was found dead in a southwestern Ontario house fire, police have charged a man with first-degree murder.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the country’s total residential mortgage debt totalled $2.16 trillion as of February this year, up 3.4 per cent year-over-year and representing the slowest growth in 23 years.