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Two towers at Detroit’s iconic Renaissance Center would be razed and the complex converted to a mix of housing and offices under an ambitious $1.6 billion plan announced on Monday

Grocery and drugstore retailer Metro Inc. ended its “transition year” with fourth-quarter earnings of $219.9 million, with an almost $1-billion supply chain transformation in the rearview mirror and plans to grow its store footprint in the coming year.

The leader of Canada’s most populous province says all of the country’s provincial and territorial premiers want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's federal government to negotiate a bilateral trade deal with the United States that excludes Mexico

Canada’s industrial heartland has had a tough year.

A police force in Ontario says they are investigating tens of thousands of dollars in losses from “undelivered tickets” for Taylor Swift shows in Toronto.

Canada’s Labor Minister Steven Mackinnon says he is intervening to end lockouts at the country’s two biggest ports after the negotiations reached an impasse

Bell Canada-owner BCE Inc. was dealt another regulatory blow this week as it reported a loss in its latest quarter and recorded $2.11 billion in asset impairment charges, mainly related to Bell Media’s TV and radio properties.

cancer patients in Canada seek emergency help before their diagnosis, with more than half being hospitalized following an ER visit, according to new research.A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) on Monday showed that more than a third of cancer patients in Ontario had visited an emergency department in the three months prior to their cancer diagnosis.“This study highlights how frequently patients with cancer are using the emergency department during the diagnostic phase of their cancer journey,” said Dr. Keerat Grewal, study co-author and an emergency medicine physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.“It’s almost one in three patients who are using the emergency department prior to their diagnosis and there are certain patient populations who are more likely to use the emergency department,” she told Global News in an interview.The study included more than 650,000 patients who were first diagnosed with cancer between 2014 and 2021 in Ontario.Even though the data was limited to Ontario, Grewal said it’s a trend that’s being seen across Canada.The CMAJ study showed that among the patients with emergency department visits 90 days before a cancer diagnosis, 64 per cent visited an ER once, 23 per cent visited twice and 13 per cent had three or more visits.

Narendra Modi has issued a social media post condemning what Canadian law enforcement call demonstrations under investigation for alleged “acts of unlawfulness” that first began outside a Hindu temple in Ontario on Sunday.According to Peel Regional Police on Monday morning, three people were arrested and charged over the incident with other alleged acts still under investigation.pic.twitter.com/YqbSU3YAki— Peel Regional Police (@PeelPolice) November 4, 2024 On Sunday, just after 2:30 p.m., Peel Regional Police said they were aware of a protest that occurred at a temple in Brampton, Ont., and urged the public to ensure a “peaceful and lawful protest,” noting it had an increased and visible presence to monitor activities.About a half hour before the police’s post on X about the protest, Liberal cabinet minister Anita Anand said she was “concerned about reports of unacceptable violent attacks at the Hindu Sabha Temple in Brampton.”Video circulating on X appeared to show people using flagpoles to strike others.According to police, investigators believed the same protesters who demonstrated outside the temple later relocated to two separate locations in Mississauga, Ont.One arrest that occurred Sunday “during the management of the protest” in the Westwood Mall area of Mississauga resulted in a police officer sustaining minor injuries, Peel police said.The Hindu Canadian Foundation alleged the “attack” is “happening under the support of Khalistaani politician sympathizers.”In his post, Modi alleged there were “cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats.”“Such acts of violence will never weaken India’s resolve,” Modi wrote on X.

rideshare app when trying to get back home late at night, sparking the attention of many female rideshare users who responded, saying they had experienced the same.In the video, she explains how she was allegedly stranded in Toronto for almost 45 minutes after booking a trip to Whitby, where she was asked for money from a Lyft driver, which she denied, resulting in her ride being cancelled.“It’s 3 o clock in the morning and I just want to go home,” she said tearfully in the video.In an interview with the TikTok user, @bluntcontinent, who wishes to not be identified, she explains how this was the second time in a row that a Lyft driver had asked her for money for a long-distance trip.“The first time I agreed because I felt bad,” she said.In the initial incident, she explained how once she got into the vehicle, the driver asked how much she paid, to which she responded $62. The driver then allegedly said he was only getting $18 for the ride and requested to cancel the ride and be paid the full amount in cash.

Growth in the Canadian economy remained unchanged in August, putting gross domestic product on track to grow at an annualized rate of just one per cent in the third quarter, Statistics Canada said on Thursday, paving the way for another cut by the Bank of Canada in December.

A recall of hundreds of frozen waffles and other toaster foods has been expanded

Three large tobacco companies would pay nearly $24 billion to settle a long-running legal battle in Canada

Canada’s top securities regulator is exploring adding a fund type that would let ordinary Canadians invest in infrastructure projects and private assets.

rents for all property types across the country just saw their slowest rate of growth since October 2021 — largely due to falling international student enrolment, a new report says.Last month, rents across Canada reached an average of $2,193 per month, according to Rentals.ca and Urbanation’s latest National Rent Report.The report pointed to falling numbers of international student enrolments as being behind the trends.“Rents in Canada are increasing at their slowest pace in nearly three years, largely the result of foreign student enrolments dropping by roughly a half from their record highs, with the impact felt most in B.C. and Ontario,” said Shaun Hildebrand, president of Urbanation.“Meanwhile, smaller, more affordable markets continue to see strong upward pressure on rents as demand shifts to less expensive parts of the country,” Hildebrand said.Despite the slowdown in price growth, rents are 13.4-per cent higher than two years ago and 25.2-per cent higher than three years ago.Condominium rents across Canada declined by 1.7 per cent, averaging $2,296 in September.

sentenced in Michigan in the fall of 2021 for using shell companies to illegally export sensitive manufacturing equipment to Iran, where they were born.They then returned to Ontario, where they had lived prior to their arrests, and applied to change their names to Ameen and Aurash Cohen. The province granted their requests in April 2022.At the time they altered their identities, they were still serving out part of their sentences — a one-year period of supervised release, a form of parole, government records show.Using his new name, Arash Yousefijam, 36, became a registered dentist and went to work in Ottawa as Dr.

Police in Ontario are continuing to investigate what exactly led to a series of slayings involving a woman they are calling an alleged “serial killer.”

An Ontario child has died of rabies after being exposed to a bat, a health official says.

Former public safety minister Bill Blair said he “was not advised” for weeks after CSIS says it told his chief of staff that it was seeking approval to investigate an Ontario Liberal powerbroker in March 2021.

Last month, echoing a U.S. announcement three months earlier, the federal Liberals announced a 100 per cent tariff on the import of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). China wasted no time striking back where it would hurt most, launching an anti-dumping investigation into Canadian canola exports. While there’s no evidence of dumping, there’s a very high likelihood the move is a procedural pretext to halting canola imports. China has long been the biggest canola buyer and was expected to purchase 70 per cent of this year’s bumper crop.

Ontario Provincial Police say they have uncovered a door-to-door sales fraud operation that victimized more than 200 older and vulnerable residents in Ontario.