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TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (20,290.54, up 117.03): Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Down 26 cents, or 0.61 per cent, to $42.40 on 19.6 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index closed down more than 100 points Monday on broad-based weakness, while U.S. stock markets rose after a day of mixed trading. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 117.03 points at 20,290.54.

TORONTO — Around half of hiring managers and employees believe a combination of remote and in-office work to be the ideal setup, according to a survey which suggests both sides might be aligning on the issue more than three years after the COVID-19 p

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays finally got some rest and, hopefully, did some healing on Monday. Injuries have piled up over a 17-day stretch where the Blue Jays played every day.

TORONTO — The province says it is creating a working group to implement recommendations made in a damning auditor general's report on the government's decision to remove land from the protected Greenbelt.

TORONTO — The smash Broadway hit "Chicago" will return to Toronto at the end of the year. Mirvish Productions says the musical will play at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre from Dec. 27 to Jan. 6.

TORONTO — A documentary series challenging problematic beliefs about Canada’s Black history and another centring the life experience of 11 First Nations in Quebec are among the latest additionsto the Toronto International Film Festival lineup.

Police say a 25-year-old man is dead after he drowned in Lake Ontario over the weekend. Provincial police say they got a call for a person who appeared to be in distress Saturday afternoon near a pier in Cobourg, a town located east of Toronto.

Ottawa's light-rail transit service has fully resumed after a month-long hiatus. A fleet of between nine to 13 single-car trains — varying with ridership peaks — will run along the entirety of the LRT's east-west line for the rest of August.

TORONTO — Ontario spent about $766 million more than planned in the first quarter of this fiscal year, but the province's bottom line is the same since nearly all of that new spending came from contingency funds.