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TORONTO — Twitter's board accepted Elon Musk's US$44-billion bid to take over the social media platform on Monday. The blockbuster offer made by the controversial Tesla and SpaceX leader, who has Canadian citizenship, will see Musk pay US$54.

MONTREAL — Bombardier Inc. says it intends to "vigorously" fight claims by Alstom S.A. relating to the sale of its transportation operations in early 2021.

Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday, promising a more lenient touch to policing content on the social media platform where he — the world's richest person — promotes his interests, attacks critics and opine

MIRABEL, Que. — TC Transcontinental says it is halting distribution of its printed flyers in Mirabel after its effort to quash a city bylaw was rejected by the Quebec Superior Court.

TORONTO — Globalive Capital's Anthony Lacavera is calling for "no more fake competition" in Canada's wireless services market as his firm continues its quest to buy Freedom Mobile's assets.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,011.89, down 174.49 points.) Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB). Energy. Down 89 cents, or 1.6 per cent, to $56.18 on 17.1 million shares.

NISKU, Alta. — A group of Amazon warehouse workers in Alberta are trying again to unionize. Teamsters Local Union 362 says it has filed a second time for a unionization vote at the Amazon warehouse in Nisku, south of Edmonton.

TORONTO — Canada's resource-heavy main stock index staged a partial rebound Monday after plunging earlier in the day over fears of a global economic slowdown amid new COVID-19 lockdowns in China, but it was not enough to climb out of the red.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and set in motion $10,000 daily fines Monday for failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by the state's attorney general as part of a civil investiga

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts business executive who was sentenced to 15 months in prison in the sprawling college admissions cheating scandal appealed his conviction on Monday, arguing that he believed he was making legitimate donations to get his t