India, April 23 -- The Canadian market is up in positive territory a little before noon on Tuesday, led by gains in technology and healthcare stocks. Several stocks from consumer discretionary, consumer staples and industrials sectors are also notably higher.

The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index is up 122.44 points or 0.56% at 21,994.40 a few minutes before noon.

The Information Technology Capped Index is up nearly 2%. Hut 8 Corp (HUT.TO) and Shopify Inc (SHOP.TO) are up 4.8% and 4.5%, respectively. Descartes Systems Group (DSG.TO), Alithya Group (ALYA.TO), Bitfarms (BITF.TO), Celestica Inc (CLS.TO), Tecsys (TCS.TO), Enghouse Systems (ENGH.TO), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD.TO) and BlackBerry (BB.TO) are gaining 1.8 to 3.6%.

Healthcare stoc...