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 Shares were mostly higher in Asia overnight, with major markets apart from Shanghai and Taiwan logging modest gains. U.S. futures and oil prices rose.

Environment Canada says that we’ll see sunny skies with highs of 27, a humidex of 29, and a UV index of 8 or very high.

Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted two people, including a child, on a TTC bus yesterday afternoon, and the Toronto Zoo has announced that a two-year-old Masai giraffe named Matu died during a surgical operation.

The Jays lose big, and Canada’s woman’s soccer coach is suspended at the Olympics…

Mosquitoes in York Region have tested positive for West Nile Virus, and today is the final day to take part in a Town of Stowville survey on pedestrian and cycling signs directing people from the downtown to the Rouge National Urban Park.

Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab will “gradually wind down” its US operations and lay off its US-based employees, after the Department of Commerce announced a ban on the firm selling its products in the United States.

OPP officers ratify a 4-year deal making them the highest paid officers in the province, and a new report says Canada’s largest condo market is facing its biggest test in decades as the number of investors losing money every month, and the amount they’re losing, has ballooned.