Ontario News

TORONTO — Marty Walsh was a couple months short of his eighth birthday. He should have been out playing with friends. The youngster instead spent the winter of 1975 in hospital battling cancer. One day, however, a special visitor appeared.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was up more than 100 points Thursday with broad-based gains led by the base metals sector, while U.S. markets also rose.

TORONTO — A Toronto police officer's request to explore a theory that a distraught teen he shot was trying to die by "suicide by cop" has been rejected by a coroner overseeing an inquest into the youth's death.

TORONTO — Jeremy Kinnear is 23 and already thinking about home ownership. Fresh out of university, the Edmontonian is in the midst of a four-year job program that will require him to move to Calgary halfway through.

Ontario has granted a three-month funding extension for doctors to provide care in virtual emergency departments, but the last-minute deal came too late for some hospitals to reverse plans to close online ERs.

Toronto's favourite problematic dork will live to fight another seven evil exes. Netflix is bringing Scott Pilgrim back to life, this time as an anime, with characters voiced by the same cast as the 2010 movie. The film "Scott Pilgrim vs.

TORONTO — CBC and APTN are partnering with Netflix to produce a Nunavut-shot comedy series. The streamer says the untitled comedy will centre on a young Inuk mother living in a small Arctic town “where everyone knows your business.

TORONTO — Kate Beaton's "Ducks" has won this year's edition of Canada Reads. The graphic memoir published last year by Drawn & Quarterly traces Beaton's two years working in Alberta's oilsands.

KINGSTON, Ont. — The Vanier Cup is heading to Queen's University.

TORONTO — An Ontario Liberal member of provincial parliament says she is joining the race to be Toronto's next mayor, adding another high-profile name to an already-crowded field of contenders.