Canada stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Discretionary, Energy and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.78%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aphria Inc (TO:APHA), which rose 6.18% or 0.770 points to trade at 13.235 at the close. Meanwhile, Dollarama Inc (TO:DOL) added 6.12% or 2.18 points to end at 37.83 and Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) was up 5.99% or 0.19 points to 3.36 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MAG Silver Corp (TO:MAG), which fell 7.15% or 1.02 points to trade at 13.25 at the close. Endeavour Mining Corp (TO:EDV) declined 6.23% or 1.250 points to end at 18.810 and BlackBerry Ltd (TO:BB) was down 5.12% or 0.69 points to 12.79.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 638 to 434 and 128 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 3.21% to 12.68.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.49% or 6.30 to $1292.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 2.71% or 1.63 to hit $61.77 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $69.19 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.01% to 0.7512, while CAD/EUR rose 0.10% to 0.6707.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 96.817.
