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TORONTO — The $5-billion announced for an Indigenous loan guarantee program in last week's budget is just a start, said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (22,011.72, up 139.76 points): Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB). Energy. Down two cents, or 0.04 per cent, to $48.41 on 13.4 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index rose nearly 140 points Tuesday, led by strength in technology stocks, while U.S. stock markets also climbed. The rally was led by technology stocks, with the Nasdaq rising 1.6 per cent.

TORONTO — With a Professional Women's Hockey League playoff spot secured, Toronto remains focused on improvement over its final three regular-season games.

TORONTO — The keffiyeh took centre stage at the Ontario legislature Tuesday as protesters unfurling the scarves were ejected from the public galleries and an independent member draped one over her shoulders in open defiance of a Speaker's ban on the

TORONTO — There's at least one piece of basketball memorabilia that Bennedict Mathurin wishes he was a part of.

VALLEYVIEW, Alta. — RCMP say five children and two adults have been treated in hospital for various injuries after a school bus was struck by a truck northwest of Edmonton. The crash happened on Highway 43 near Valleyview.

Halifax Regional Police have released the name of a 16-year-old boy whose death on Monday was deemed a homicide.

WINNIPEG — It was just over a year ago when Nino Niederreiter made a frank assessment of the Winnipeg Jets.

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — Police in the United States say two bodies have been found in the search for a pair of British Columbia kayakers who went missing in the waters off Vancouver Island over the weekend.