Ontario News

TORONTO — The Bank of Canada hiked its key interest rate Wednesday by a quarter percentage point, bringing the rate to 4.75 per cent — the highest it's been since April 2001.

TORONTO — Rogers Communication Inc.

HAMILTON — Police are investigating after several Pride flags were reported stolen from residences and schools in Hamilton. City police say they received reports of six Pride flags being stolen across Hamilton.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged everyone in the province Wednesday to refrain from lighting campfires, as 54 wildfires burned across the province and smoke from fires in Quebec degraded air quality.

TORONTO — Tim Hortons is launching a credit card that can be used through its mobile app, the latest move into an increasingly competitive rewards space.

TORONTO — Indigo Books and Music Inc. says founder Heather Reisman will retire as executive chair and as a director this summer, while four other members of its board have also stepped down.

TORONTO — Marlon Wayans, Leslie Jones and Jonathan Van Ness are among the performers headed to this year’s Just For Laughs Toronto comedy festival.

TORONTO — Poet, playwright and musician Vivek Shraya has contemplated the layers of white supremacy in her work, but on a new project, she's getting far more personal about the subject.

TORONTO — Two lucky lottery ticket holders in British Columbia and Ontario will split the $70 million Lotto Max jackpot. There were 15 available Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each, and five winning tickets were drawn.

LONDON, Ont. — Two years after a Muslim family was killed on its streets, residents of London, Ont.