Ontario News

TORONTO — Auston Matthews will be well paid to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a Stanley Cup championship.

TORONTO — Ontario public high school teachers will not go on strike this fall, if members accept a tentative agreement reached Friday by their union to use binding arbitration if needed to get a contract.

TORONTO — Canadians soon won't find Kleenex tissues on store shelves. The Kleenex consumer facial tissue business is leaving Canada this month, U.S. manufacturer Kimberly-Clark said in a statement Friday.

TORONTO — Metro Inc. is seeking an injunction against striking employees who are picketing its warehouses and preventing deliveries to stores in Ontario, the grocer said Friday.

WATERLOO, ONTARIO — Police say a man accused in a triple stabbing at a University of Waterloo gender studies class is now facing a charge of attempted murder.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,835.75, up 59.92 points): Toronto-Dominion Bank. (TSX:TD). Finance. Down 30 cents, or 0.37 per cent, to $80.37 on 6.3 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index climbed on Friday, buoyed by strength in the energy sector, while U.S. markets also rose following a speech by U.S.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday he's confident that nothing criminal took place in his government's process of removing land from the protected Greenbelt for housing development.

Ontario is putting $160 million toward skills training programs, prioritizing help for people on social assistance and people with criminal records.

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival is set to lose Bell as its leading sponsor.