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[published_date] Talks to explore a sustainable year-round shipping season at Canada's northernmost, deepwater port are set to get underway, following an agreement between the port's ownership group and a Montreal-based dry bulk shipping company. The Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba, which has a brief operational window each summer, is owned and operated by Arctic Gateway Group, a partnership…

[published_date] He won over 3,000 career races, but Ron Turcotte will forever be remembered for the three he registered aboard the legendary Secretariat 52 years ago. Turcotte guided Secretariat to an emphatic American Triple Crown sweep in 1973. So dominant was that performance that Secretariat still holds the records he set that year in the…

[published_date] Newly released court documents are shedding fresh light on the search for two missing Nova Scotia children and how police subsequently combed through bank records, phone data and GPS information to track the movements of their mother and stepfather leading up to their disappearance in May. The redacted records, which were released at the request of…

[published_date] British Columbia fishing guide Dean Werk says he was getting calls last week from keen anglers wondering if this would be their year. "Do you think there's going to be a salmon opening, Dean?" Now they have the answer. Amid bumper returns of millions of prized sockeye salmon, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) issued…

[published_date] A man who avoided Canadian authorities for more than nine months after being accused of driving a semi-trailer truck through a stop sign, causing a crash that killed a Manitoba mother and daughter, was arrested at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Thursday.   Navjeet Singh, 25, had been wanted since November for two counts of…

[published_date] A blind baby moose that was set to join the Toronto Zoo after being rescued near Ottawa last month has died. Holly's Haven Wildlife Rescue says it's deeply saddened to share the news about the moose named Cedar, who died "suddenly and unexpectedly." The rescue organization says Cedar ate and socialized well, and he…

[published_date] MEG Energy Inc. has accepted a friendly cash-and-stock takeover offer from oilsands neighbour Cenovus Energy Inc. worth $7.9 billion, including debt, after spurning an earlier unsolicited bid from Strathcona Resources Ltd. A special committee reviewed all available options to boost shareholder value after Strathcona made its takeover attempt, MEG chairman James McFarland said Friday.…

[published_date] Politics · Updated Canada will remove all tariffs on goods from the United States that are covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday.  Tariffs on U.S. autos, steel and aluminum will remain for now Peter Zimonjic · CBC News · Posted: Aug 22,…

[published_date] Wall Street is rallying on Friday after the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated in a highly anticipated speech that cuts to interest rates may be coming, though he gave no clear clue about when. The S&P 500 jumped 1.3 per cent and erased all of its loss for the week. It's coming off…

[published_date] Cenovus Energy Inc. has signed a cash-and-stock deal to buy MEG Energy Corp. that values the company at $7.9 billion, including debt. The deal comes after Strathcona Resources Ltd. made an unsolicited offer for MEG in May that the company urged shareholders to reject. MEG chairman James McFarland said the company's special committee conducted…

[published_date] A man in his 20s is dead after a shooting at Scarborough Town Centre on Thursday afternoon, Toronto police say. Police say they received reports that a person was dead inside the mall at about 1:50 p.m.  The man was found in a family washroom near a food court on the lower level in the mall at 300 Borough Dr.,…

[published_date] On September 29, 1962, Canada's Alouette I satellite launched atop an American rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. On that day, Canada became just the third country — behind the former Soviet Union and the United States — to design and build its own satellite. Since then, we've been an active…