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TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,532.78, down 122.14): Crescent Point Energy Corp. (TSX:CPG). Energy. Up 28 cents, or 3.18 per cent, to $9.08 on 11.

TORONTO — Markets in Canada and the U.S. sank in the last hour of trading Wednesday, with U.S. markets down around 1.6 per cent after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates.

TORONTO — Ontario will soon end its temporary paid sick day program, The Canadian Press has learned.

TORONTO — It was a crazy start to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Among the early upsets was 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson shocking top-seeded Purdue 63-58 on Friday. What's even more stunning is the Boilermakers came in as 22.

UNITED NATION (AP) — The United Nations chief urged the first world conference on water in over 45 years on Wednesday to address the “21st century emergency” that is wasting the world’s most important resource and has left billions of people without

TORONTO — Ontario's budget is set to be tabled Thursday amid both surging revenues and a potential economic slowdown, and while the finance minister has been signalling "restraint," he says that doesn't mean program cuts.

TORONTO — Canadians with a hankering for Shake Shack's juicy burgers and hand-spun milkshakes soon won't have to cross the border to satisfy their cravings. Toronto-based private investment firms Osmington Inc. and Harlo Entertainment Inc.

TORONTO — Canada's rental housing shortage will quadruple to 120,000 units by 2026 without a significant boost in stock, Royal Bank of Canada said in a report Wednesday.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Ontario manufacturers would be able to get up to $2 million a year through a new tax credit the government is proposing in its upcoming budget.

TORONTO — An Ontario Liberal member of provincial parliament says she is planning to resign her seat in order to run in the Toronto mayoral race.