Ontario News

TORONTO — Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison is getting his namesake on a private screening room in Toronto.

TORONTO — Ellie Szeryk was preparing to tee off during a practice round at Vancouver's Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, going over her yardage book, managing the course, when she noticed her ball had been knocked off the tee.

A mother travelling with her infant is dead and four others are injured following a collision involving seven vehicles in a construction zone in the Township of Melancthon, Ont. Provincial police say officers arrived at the scene shortly after 3 p.m.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,879.79, up 188.58 points): Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Finance. Up 29 cents, or 1.22 per cent, to $24.13 on 14.

TORONTO — Technology stocks helped lead a broad-based rally, bringing Canada's main stock index up almost 200 points Wednesday, while U.S. stock markets also climbed.

TORONTO — The RCMP has started to look into a potential investigation related to the Progressive Conservative government's removal of some areas from Ontario's protected Greenbelt for housing development, the police force said Wednesday.

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc.

TORONTO — An Ontario court has ruled against controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson, upholding a regulatory body's order that he undergo social media training or potentially lose his licence to practice.

The RCMP said Wednesday that it is assessing whether to launch an investigation into the removal of lands from the protected Greenbelt for housing development, following a referral from the Ontario Provincial Police.

WHEATLEY, Ont. — Ontario's minister of natural resources and forestry says the province is putting an additional $11 million toward ongoing costs of a 2021 explosion in Wheatley, Ont., that levelled a building and injured 20 people.