Ontario News

Toronto police say they're looking for a 29-year-old man after what they describe as a deliberate hit and run. Police say they were called to the city's north end late Tuesday night after reports of shots being fired.

HALIFAX — Canada's top general has condemned the actions of a group of Armed Forces members who disrupted a spiritual event on Canada Day marking the suffering of Indigenous Peoples at a statue of Halifax's controversial founder, Edward Cornwallis.

MONCTON, N.B. — A former RCMP commissioner was "contrived" in his testimony at the national police force's Labour Code trial stemming from the shooting rampage in Moncton, N.B.

VANCOUVER — Canada's correctional service continued to use indefinite solitary confinement for prisoners despite decades of policy-reform recommendations and a call for change from the prime minister, a lawyer said Tuesday. Joe Arvay told a B.C.

OTTAWA — The federal government is broadening the scope of its $1.26-billion fund to support innovation-related business investments to include companies from all industrial sectors.

OTTAWA — China is hoping a future free-trade deal with Canada will help it avoid future controversies such as the national security concerns that surfaced over a Chinese takeover of a Canadian satellite technology company.

TORONTO — Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. (TSX:CF) has signed a deal to buy Hargreave Hale Ltd., an investment and wealth management business in Britain. Under the agreement, Canaccord will play Hargreave Hale shareholders $87.

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba politician who was kicked out of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus says he's planning a court challenge against a law that forbids him from joining another party's caucus.

OTTAWA — The federal Conservative party raised a million more dollars than the Liberals last year, but spent twice as much as the governing party in order to raise the cash. Annual financial reports published today show the Conservatives raised $18.

TORONTO — Despite slumping passenger car sales, for the first time more than one million new vehicles have been sold in Canada by the midway mark of the year.