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FREDERICTON — Freezing rain left trees and power lines coated and roads slick Monday morning as Environment Canada issued weather warnings for large parts of the Atlantic region.

TORONTO — Trade tensions with the U.S. will likely mean a painful next few months for workers and the economy but could be short-lived, the Conference Board of Canada said in its latest outlook.

TORONTO — The Ontario provincial government says nine supervised consumption sites will close Tuesday as planned, despite a recent court injunction allowing them to remain open temporarily.

Hundreds of thousands of people across Ontario were still without power on the third day of a spring storm, after freezing rain coated swaths of the province with thick layers of ice.

TORONTO — A lobbyist who used to work for Ontario Premier Doug Ford failed to comply with some rules while asking for clients' land to be removed from the Greenbelt, the province's integrity commissioner concluded Monday. Commissioner J.

Halton Regional Police say one of their officers has been charged with fraud following an investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police.

TORONTO — A new report shows Canada's downtown office vacancy rate marked its first, if slight, improvement since the start of the pandemic. The CBRE Group Inc. report shows the national downtown office vacancy rate dipped to 19.

TORONTO — Strength in the energy and telecommunication sectors helped Canada's main stock index rise in late-morning trading, while U.S. markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 72.79 points at 24,831.94.

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised Monday to get the federal government back into the business of home building, while Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives pitched a national energy corridor to fast-track approval of key infrastructure.

KINGSTON, Ont. — Gage Heyes scored at 2:50 of the second overtime period to lift the Kingston Frontenacs to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Sudbury Wolves in Ontario Hockey League playoff action on Sunday at Slush Puppie Place.