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TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was up almost 650 points in a broad-based rally Thursday,while U.S. stock markets also rose after new data showing inflation in the United States eased in October. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 646.

A Russian-Canadian man from Ontario is in police custody and awaiting extradition to the United States for his alleged participation in a global ransomware campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,990.36, up 646.11 points): Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX). Materials. Up $1.15, or 5.54 per cent, to $21.90 on 12.5 million shares.

TORONTO — Ontario's pediatric intensive care units are operating over capacity, while general hospitals are now receiving children who are healthy enough to leave ICUs, The Canadian Press has learned.

TORONTO — Canada Pension Plan Investment Board saw its net assets grow to $529 billion in its second quarter, compared with $523 billion at the end of the previous quarter.

TORONTO — Faculty members at Western University may walk off the job next week if a last-minute deal is not reached with the school, the union representing them said Thursday.

Toronto Raptors forward Precious Achiuwa has been diagnosed with partial ligament tears in his right ankle, and is listed as out indefinitely.

SAINT THOMAS, Ont. — An officer with the police service in St. Thomas, Ont., is facing a criminal charge after a September incident in which a 29-year-old man was injured. Ontario's Special Investigations Unit says the incident happened on Sept.

HAMILTON — Police say they made a third arrest in relation to the 2018 fatal shooting of a Hamilton man. Hamilton police announced today they arrested a 42-year-old man from Burlington, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford was staring down a gathering storm of indefinite school closures, a new law nobody obeyed and warnings of widespread, economy-disrupting work stoppages when he decided last weekend that there was only one way out.