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Transit, other services disrupted in Brampton, Ont., as workers go on strike

Transit, other services disrupted in Brampton, Ont., as workers go on strike

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Brampton, Ont., says transit and other local services are facing disruptions and delays after 1,200 municipal employees went on strike.
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Canadian Tire sees customers make fewer trips to stores to buy fewer items in Q3

Canadian Tire sees customers make fewer trips to stores to buy fewer items in Q3

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. executives are seeing early signs that consumers could soon ease up on the careful shopping habits they adopted to cope with inflation, but their outlook on the economy is still far from rosy.
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Safe travels: Experts say travel insurance may save you thousands on vacation abroad

Safe travels: Experts say travel insurance may save you thousands on vacation abroad

TORONTO — Hannah Logan didn't expect to wind up in the hospital, or face a pricey bill for X-rays and medication when she travelled to Bosnia over a decade ago.
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Saskatchewan's Jason Ackerman improves to 6-0 at mixed curling nationals

Saskatchewan's Jason Ackerman improves to 6-0 at mixed curling nationals

SAINT CATHARINES, Ont. — Saskatchewan's Jason Ackerman remained undefeated on Wednesday with a 7-4 win over Newfoundland and Labrador's Trent Skanes at the Canadian mixed curling championship.
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OHL Roundup: 67's score three times in final frame to top Frontenacs 4-2

KINGSTON, Ont. — Luca Pinelli had a goal and two assists as the Ottawa 67's used a three-goal third period to defeat the Kingston Frontenacs 4-2 on Wednesday in Ontario Hockey League action.
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One person dead, two injured after pit collapses in Toronto during sewer pipe repair

One person dead, two injured after pit collapses in Toronto during sewer pipe repair

TORONTO — Police say one man is dead and two others are injured after a pit collapsed during sewer pipe repairs in Toronto. Toronto police say the men were fixing a sewage pipe when the pit collapsed on them. Police say it happened at around 5:25 p.
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Manulife's third-quarter earnings rise to $1.84 billion

Manulife's third-quarter earnings rise to $1.84 billion

TORONTO — Manulife Financial Corp. says it earned $1.84 billion in the third quarter, up from $1.01 billion a year earlier. The insurer says adjusted earnings, or what it calls core earnings, were $1.83 billion, up from $1.
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Dow up 3.6% after Trump's election win, Canadian markets also rise

Dow up 3.6% after Trump's election win, Canadian markets also rise

TORONTO — U.S. stocks surged Wednesday after Republican candidate Donald Trump won the election, with the Dow Jones industrial average gaining 3.6 per cent, while Canadian markets rose by one per cent.
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Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok survives confidence vote after effort to oust him

Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok survives confidence vote after effort to oust him

OTTAWA — P.J. Akeeagok is still the premier of Nunavut after surviving a tight confidence vote in the Legislature on Wednesday. In a 10-8 vote, MLAs defeated a motion to strip him of his premiership and remove him from cabinet.
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Ontario man with indeterminate prison sentence dies at 47 of 'natural causes' in B.C.

Ontario man with indeterminate prison sentence dies at 47 of 'natural causes' in B.C.

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The Correctional Service of Canada says Angel Jones, who was serving an indeterminate sentence in a British Columbia prison for biting a woman's nose off, has died of natural causes at the age of 47.
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