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TORONTO — Ontario is proposing to increase transparency and accountability around health staffing agencies, as hospitals and long-term care homes spend about $1 billion a year to fill shifts with temporary workers at rates far higher than full-time s

OTTAWA — Easton Cowan scored a hat trick to lead Canada to a 7-1 win over Switzerland on Thursday in a pre-tournament game ahead of the world junior hockey championship.

BARRIE, Ont. — Alex Assadourian scored the game-winning goal at 18:30 of the third period to lift the Niagara Icedogs to a 6-5 win over the Barrie Colts in Ontario Hockey League play on Thursday night. Assadourian had a hat trick for the visitors.

TORONTO (AP) — Cam Johnson hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with less than two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter and finished with 33 points as the Brooklyn Nets overcame a 10-point deficit and beat the Toronto Raptors 101-94 on Thursday night.

TORONTO — Cam Johnson took over in the fourth quarter as the Brooklyn Nets rallied past the Toronto Raptors 101-94 on Thursday. Johnson went on a 13-4 run in the final 2:24 of the game to lead Brooklyn (11-16) to victory.

TORONTO — Canada's best men's basketball players were left wanting more in 2024. Hamilton's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finished second in NBA MVP voting for the 2023-24 season, the best performance among a record-high 27 Canadians in the league.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to add multiple new names to his cabinet Friday when he shuffles his team days after Chrystia Freeland rattled the party and the government with her sudden resignation as finance minister.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc says it's not the Liberal government's job to respond to everything U.S. president-elect Donald Trump posts online.

The beloved Theodore Tugboat replica that partially sank in St. Catharines, Ont., has been refloated. The boat's owner says the life-size version of the TV character was safely righted on Thursday afternoon, but there is still more work to do.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index slumped again on Thursday, dragged lower by losses in sectors like industrials and real estate, while U.S. markets rose a day after one of their worst declines of the year.