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OTTAWA — The federal and Ontario governments have sold a block of 30 million shares in General Motors valued in the neighbourhood of $1.1 billion, a portion of the equity they received when they bailed out the automaker in 2009.

TORONTO — Toronto is under a heat alert today, as much of southern Ontario gets a scorching blast of late summer heat.

CHURCHILL, Man. — Saved by the cellphone light. A man walking to his home in Churchill, Man., from a hotel early Saturday morning ran into a polar bear.

ST. JACOBS, Ont. — Fire officials say they’ve pinpointed the general area where the blaze that levelled part of a renowned farmers market near Waterloo, Ont., began.

HIGH RIVER, Alta. — Troy Kowal is one of dozens of young hockey players whose skates, pads, helmet and sticks were destroyed by floodwaters that devastated High River, Alta., in June.

MONTREAL — The federal government’s historic multibillion-dollar infrastructure program has been lucrative for a few Quebec construction companies involved in illegal collusion, a witness testified at the province’s corruption inquiry on Tuesday.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating an incident in which they say an 80-year-old woman suffered a fractured hip after she was struck by police with a Taser.

OTTAWA — With the deadline to sign up for a spectrum auction looming and a major U.S. company out of the running, it looks doubtful anyone will burst onto the scene to compete against Bell, Telus and Rogers.

Some of the energy companies headquartered in downtown Calgary could see productivity losses after being forced out of their offices by severe flooding, but the good news is that oil and gas production are largely unaffected, analysts said Friday.

MONTREAL — Summer storms caused power outages in parts of central sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ on Monday. Environment sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ had issued severe thunderstorm watches for parts of southern Quebec and Ontario, where dozens of outages were reported.