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TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,200.06, up 74.78 points): Royal Bank of Canada. (TSX:RY). Finance. Down 28 cents, or 0.21 per cent, to $132.71 on 9.1 million shares.

TORONTO — Boston centre Alina Muller, Ottawa centre Brianne Jenner and Toronto right-wing Natalie Spooner have been named the Professional Women’s Hockey League's three stars of the week. Muller had two goals and two assists in two games last week.

TORONTO — Former Blue Jays manager Jimy Williams, who won 910 games over a dozen seasons with Toronto, Boston and Houston, has died. He was 80.

TORONTO — Tennis Canada's mission to get a racket into the hands of more recreational players is working. A new study commissioned by Tennis Canada and released on Monday shows that the sport has nearly reached pre-pandemic levels of participation.

BURLINGTON, ONTARIO — Ontario's police watchdog says it is investigating after an occupant of a pickup truck that was allegedly fleeing from police died in a crash.

FORT HOPE, Ont. — Four teens have been charged in connection with a fire that destroyed a northwestern Ontario First Nation's only school last week. Nishnawbe Aski police say the suspects are three boys aged 13, 14 and 17, and a 13-year-old girl.

NEW YORK (AP) — N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel "House Made of Dawn" is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89.

HAMILTON — Forge FC has re-signed key veteran Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson. The 27-year-old Swede has been ever-present for the Hamilton-based side, making a club-leading 147 appearances over five seasons from 2019 to 2023.

TORONTO — Leon's Furniture Ltd. says it's planning to build upwards of 4,000 homes on land around its head office at the intersection of two major Toronto highways. The furniture retailer says it has already secured a rezoning of the 16.

HAMILTON — Jordan Williams is a Hamilton Tiger-Cat.