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TORONTO — Summer McIntosh almost broke another world record — and in the process set a new world junior and national record at the Canadian swimming trials. The 16-year-old Toronto native broke the records with a time of two minutes 6.

TORONTO — The family of a 16-year-old boy who was killed in an apparently unprovoked attack at a subway station led hundreds of people in a candlelight walk in downtown Toronto Thursday evening to remember and honour the boy.

TORONTO — The publisher of the Toronto Star is calling on Canadian companies to dedicate at least 20 per cent of their advertising budgets to local media.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,940.99, up 103.34): TC Energy Corp. (TSX:TRP). Energy. Down $1.28, or 2.38 per cent, to $52.58 on 10.9 million shares.

TORONTO — Marty Walsh was a couple months short of his eighth birthday. He should have been out playing with friends. The youngster instead spent the winter of 1975 in hospital battling cancer. One day, however, a special visitor appeared.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was up more than 100 points Thursday with broad-based gains led by the base metals sector, while U.S. markets also rose.

TORONTO — A Toronto police officer's request to explore a theory that a distraught teen he shot was trying to die by "suicide by cop" has been rejected by a coroner overseeing an inquest into the youth's death.

TORONTO — Jeremy Kinnear is 23 and already thinking about home ownership. Fresh out of university, the Edmontonian is in the midst of a four-year job program that will require him to move to Calgary halfway through.

Ontario has granted a three-month funding extension for doctors to provide care in virtual emergency departments, but the last-minute deal came too late for some hospitals to reverse plans to close online ERs.

Toronto's favourite problematic dork will live to fight another seven evil exes. Netflix is bringing Scott Pilgrim back to life, this time as an anime, with characters voiced by the same cast as the 2010 movie. The film "Scott Pilgrim vs.