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OSHAWA, Ont. — An eight-year-old girl is dead following what police say is an alleged murder-suicide in an Oshawa, Ont., home. The Durham Regional Police Service says officers responded to a home around 8 a.m. on Saturday following a 911 call.

TORONTO — Ontario is projecting improving deficits over the next couple of years despite an expected economic slowdown, but opposition critics say Monday's fall economic statement fails to "meet the moment" as it lacks new injections of health spendi

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,921.81, down 189.70 points): Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB). Energy. Down $2.02, or 3.64 per cent, to $53.45 on 36.9 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was down almost 200 points Monday,weighed down by losses in information technology, utilities and energy, while U.S. stock markets were also in the red. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 189.

TORONTO — A coroner's inquest into the drug-related deaths of five inmates at an Ontario jail heard Monday that one of them used to "self medicate" with drugs to cope with mental illness and tragedy in his life.

TORONTO — A foreign supply of children's pain and fever medication should land on Canadian retail shelves in the coming weeks, Health Canada said Monday.

TORONTO — Education workers at Ontario's legislature erupted into cheers and applause on Monday as Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government repealed a law that had imposed a contract on them and banned them from striking.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without veteran defenceman Jake Muzzin for at least the next three months. The team said Monday that Muzzin is out indefinitely with a cervical spine injury and will be re-evaluated in late February.

Hourly wages needed to live in Ontario have increased amid decades-high inflation and remain well above the province's minimum wage, according to a new report.

TORONTO — Nickelback is getting a spot in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The rock hitmakers from Hanna, Alta. have been named as the latest inductees into the illustrious home of Canada's top music talent.