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Ontario agrees to give some teachers, education workers, retroactive salary bumps

Ontario agrees to give some teachers, education workers, retroactive salary bumps

TORONTO — Ontario has agreed to give public high school teachers and some elementary school education workers retroactive salary increases to compensate them for constrained wages under a law known as Bill 124.
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Milanovich calls the shots as Butler runs the show for Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Milanovich calls the shots as Butler runs the show for Hamilton Tiger-Cats

HAMILTON — James Butler has given the Hamilton Tiger-Cats something they haven't had since 2010 but he certainly had to work for it the last half of the regular season.
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Ontario extends 5.7-cent gas tax cut to June 30, 2024

Ontario extends 5.7-cent gas tax cut to June 30, 2024

TORONTO — Ontario is extending a 5.7-cent cut to the gas tax until next summer, Premier Doug Ford announced Tuesday. The government launched the cut in July 2022 and has extended it several times since, and now the reduction – along with a 5.
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BHP approves $6.4B second stage of Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan

BHP approves $6.4B second stage of Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan

TORONTO — Australian mining giant BHP said on Tuesday it will go ahead with a plan to spend $6.4 billion to build the second stage of its Jansen potash mine east of Saskatoon.
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Canadian Tire buys back stake in financial services business from Scotiabank

Canadian Tire buys back stake in financial services business from Scotiabank

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. has signed a deal to buy back the 20 per cent stake in Canadian Tire Financial Services that is owned by Scotiabank for $895 million. The move restores the retailer's full ownership over the business.
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TMX Group reports Q3 profit and revenue up from year ago

TMX Group reports Q3 profit and revenue up from year ago

TORONTO — TMX Group Ltd. reported its third-quarter profit rose compared with a year ago, helped by higher revenue, partly offset by an increase in operating expenses.
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Shawn Levy on adapting celebrated novel 'All the Light We Cannot See' for the screen

Shawn Levy on adapting celebrated novel 'All the Light We Cannot See' for the screen

TORONTO — Adapting a beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a Netflix series sounds like a daunting task, but Canadian director-producer Shawn Levy says bringing “All the Light We Cannot See” to the screen didn’t feel that way for a simple reason
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Raptors drop third in a row with 99-91 loss to Trail Blazers

Raptors drop third in a row with 99-91 loss to Trail Blazers

Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic was transparent about his players needing to be a team Monday night. Jerami Grant scored a game-high 22 points as the Portland Trail Blazers handed the Toronto Raptors their third straight loss, 99-91.
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Jerami Grant scores 22 as Trail Blazers beat Raptors 99-91 for 1st win of season

TORONTO (AP) — Jerami Grant scored 22 points, Deandre Ayton had 10 points and a career-high 23 rebounds and the Portland Trail Blazers won their first game of the season by beating the Toronto Raptors 99-91 on Monday night.
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Ayton, Grant, Brogdon lead Blazers to first win, 99-91 over Raptors

TORONTO (AP) — Deandre Ayton had a career-high 23 rebounds, Jerami Grant scored 22 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers won their first game of the season, beating the Toronto Raptors 99-91 on Monday night.
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