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[published_date] Alimentation Couche-Tard has backed away from a bid to buy the parent company of Japanese convenience store giant 7-Eleven. Couche-Tard says it withdrew its proposal to buy Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd., which it accused of failing to sincerely and constructively engage with its offer. Couche-Tard says it repeatedly sought a friendly dialogue…

[published_date] It is a sellers market across Saskatchewan and first-time homebuyers say they are having a hard time making that milestone purchase, bidding on multiple homes that end up selling for more than the asking price.  "I just thought that it would be a lot easier in a city like Regina," said Ruth Aguilar, 25,…

[published_date] WARNING: This story contains references to domestic violence and suicide. Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has cleared a Thunder Bay police officer of wrongdoing in the 2023 death of Jenna Ostberg, a member of Bearskin Lake First Nation. The SIU released its report on Tuesday, about 18 months after Ostberg's body was found in a residence in…

[published_date] Riley Simpson has been playing softball since they were nine years old. They fell in love with the sport after watching their older sister play.  In June, their softball team won the Edmonton city championship and Riley was hoping to play on higher-level teams as they grew and got better. In Alberta, where Riley…

[published_date] Multiple Canadian contractors that have helped build a sprawling, taxpayer-supported electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in southwestern Ontario allege they haven't been paid for millions of dollars worth of work, court records show. Lawsuits between companies on complex projects like the NextStar Energy plant in Windsor aren't abnormal, according to a veteran construction lawyer. "The issues…

[published_date] Nova Scotia RCMP say they are forensically examining items found during the search for two young children who went missing from a rural Nova Scotia community 2½ months ago, as units from multiple provinces work to find out what happened to the siblings. Lilly Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were reported missing on…

[published_date] A Manitoba hotel owner charged with human trafficking has been granted bail after four of his employees from India reported being underpaid, forced to work 15-hour days and threatened with deportation. Jai Inder Sandhu, 63, sat quietly in the prisoner's box in a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday afternoon as Manitoba provincial court Judge Robert Heinrichs delivered…

[published_date] Belinda Sarkodie left Ghana in 2024 to seek refuge in Canada. On Friday, she was killed in Hamilton while she was with a friend and they were waiting for a bus. "That's not fair.... She thought she was safe here," said Evelyn Aidoo. Although not a blood relative, Aidoo was regarded as the 26-year-old's aunt — someone Sarkodie considered…

[published_date] The two pieces were buried under the earth for possibly more than 12,000 years. This summer, they were accidentally unearthed on a Paris, Ont., dairy farm. For Laura Vellenga, finding what are believed to be two parts of an ancient spearhead is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery. "I knew right away this was something special," she said, carefully admiring two pieces…

[published_date] Matthew Hardy thought he'd scared off the man who tried to break into his family's house in Saskatoon on Saturday night. The man, frantic and covered with leaves and dirt, had tried to force his way into the Varsity View house through the sliding door on the deck around midnight, Hardy said. Hardy called police.…

[published_date] As Alberta's measles outbreaks grow, researchers are now watching the province's wastewater for the highly contagious virus and hoping to determine if the technology could eventually serve as an early detection tool. The magnitude of Alberta's outbreaks and the speed at which cases are climbing has sparked widespread concern. As of midday Tuesday, 1,323 cases had…

[published_date] Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh has already had her name etched into the history books for her record-smashing swims and a trio of Olympic gold medals from Paris 2024, but her coach Fred Vergnoux believes she still has more to give.  "When we talk with Summer, we don't talk about any limits. And that's something that…