Ontario News

TORONTO — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust says retailers offering essential and discount goods are driving growth in its occupancy rates.

TORONTO — Producers of the new "Degrassi" TV series say its future is on hold after HBO Max pulled out of the project. WildBrain Ltd.

TORONTO — Global layoffs orchestrated by new Twitter owner Elon Musk have hit the company's Canadian office with its two most senior leaders announcing they were part of the cuts.

TORONTO — Andrew Harris has resumed practising with the Toronto Argonauts. The veteran Canadian running back was back on the practice field Friday after missing Toronto's final 10 regular-season games following surgery for a torn pectoral muscle.

Toronto police have arrested a 17-year-old suspect after a shooting outside a high school in the city's east end this week that left one dead. Police say the shooting took place outside Woburn Collegiate Institute around 3:20 p.m.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Ben West made the game-sealing save and Jacob Frasca scored the lone shootout goal as the Barrie Colts defeated the Peterborough Petes 4-3 on Thursday.

TORONTO — Union members across Ontario are expected to join picket lines in solidarity with education workers planning a strike Friday, with one union saying its workers will also be walking off the job for the day in an expression of support.

TORONTO — More than 50,000 Ontario education workers will stage an indefinite strike starting Friday, despite the government enacting a law to make it illegal, with their union warning parents to make alternate arrangements into next week.

TORONTO — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust reported net income in the third quarter of $3.2 million, down from $137.6 million the year before, attributing the drop to a net fair value loss on investment properties.

TORONTO — Ontario's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause in legislation intended to prevent a strike by education workers is a dangerous and draconian move that could have implications for labour negotiations across the country, experts say.