Canadian main stock market continued up Wednesday, ending a frightening October trading session by posting a triple-digit gain for a second day in a row.

The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index jumped 132.78 points, or 0.89 percent, to close the day at 15,027.28 points on broad-based gains led by the health-care sector, which includes the big marijuana companies.

The Canadian dollar dipped 0.27 cents to 0.75.97 U.S. dollar.

On the market, 169 issues rose and 74 fell. There were no new highs and 14 new lows, with total volume of 309.8 million shares.

The energy group rose 1.40 points,or 0.85 percent while the financials sector rose 1.23 points, or 0.43 percent.

Aurora Cannabis Inc. shot up 12.2 percent to 8.94 Canadian dollars and Aphria Inc surged 18 percent to 15.70 Canadian dollars while Canopy Growth surged 9.3 percent to 48.57 Canadian dollars.

The tech group were also up. Shopify soared 7.1 percent to 181.69 Canadian dollars while BlackBerry gained 2.7 percent to 12.17 Canadian dollars.

Bombardier Inc. added 0.63 percent to 3.19 Canadian dollars.

Suncor Energy Inc. rose 1.52 percent to 44.16 Canadian dollars.