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TORONTO — Ontario's top court has upheld the validity of a mandatory math test for new teachers, saying that a lower court decision declaring it unconstitutional was based on preliminary and incomplete data.

Residents of Kitchener Centre are set to vote Thursday in a provincial byelection, and the candidates for the legislature's three opposition parties agree the main issue is affordability — and that the Tories aren't putting up much of a fight.

TORONTO — The Professional Women's Hockey League's season openers are set. Toronto will host New York in an afternoon game at the Mattamy Athletic Centre on Jan. 1 to open the regular season.

TORONTO — Scotiabank's profits took a sizable hit last quarter as it felt the early effects of the slowing economy, and prepared for worse to come.

TORONTO — Government impersonation is one of the most common financial scams plaguing people across Canada, a new survey from payment processing company Interac Corp. has found.

TORONTO — Grade 10 students in Ontario will get mandatory education on the Holodomor famine in Ukraine and its impact on the community in Canada as part of their Canadian history course.

TORONTO — Canada Goose Holdings Inc. says it has acquired a long-standing knitwear supplier and its European manufacturing facility. Financial terms of the deal for the operating assets of Paola Confectii Manufacturing were not immediately available.

TORONTO — Canada’s image at the world’s signature climate negotiations could be complicated by infighting, some observers fear, as two of the federal government's ardent critics at the provincial level look to capture attention at the United Nations

TORONTO — When Dr. Carolyn Snider arrives for her early morningemergency room shifts, she regularly sees between five and 10 people in the waiting area who don't need medical attention— just a safe place to stay warm.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Owen Beck and Jonathan Melee each had a goal and assist as the Peterborough Petes edged the visiting Sudbury Wolves 5-3 in the lone Ontario Hockey League game on Monday night.