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Southwest Airlines will revamp its board and its chairman will retire next year, but it intends to keep CEO Robert Jordan after a meeting with hedge fund Elliott Investment Management, which has sought a leadership shakeup at the airline including Jordan’s ouster. Southwest said Tuesday that six directors will leave the board in November and […]

Southwest Airlines will revamp its board and its chairman will retire next year, but it intends to keep CEO Robert Jordan after a meeting with hedge fund Elliott Investment Management, which has sought a leadership shakeup at the airline including Jordan’s ouster. Southwest said Tuesday that six directors will leave the board in November and […]

TORONTO — Giancarlo Esposito first read the script of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” more than two decades ago, and he says it somehow feels more relevant now. The actor, who plays corrupt prosecutor-turned-mayor Francis Cicero in Coppola’s self-funded $120-million passion project, says that when he returned to the project decades later he marvelled that something […]

TORONTO — Unifor says employees at a Walmart warehouse in Mississauga, Ont., will begin voting Tuesday on whether to join the union. Unifor National President Lana Payne says in a statement that a vote for the union this week is “the best way for workers to get a level playing field with a corporate giant.” […]

TORONTO (AP) — Tyrone Taylor scored the tying run on a wild pitch in the eighth inning before fellow pinch-runner Eddy Alvarez dashed home on a passed ball as the New York Mets rallied past the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Monday night for their 10th victory in 11 games. The surging Mets got six […]

TORONTO — The New York Mets took advantage of some sloppy Toronto defence in a 3-2 victory over the Blue Jays on Monday night at Rogers Centre. A throwing error, wild pitch and passed ball in the eighth inning led to a pair of New York runs and made a loser of reliever Tommy Nance […]

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Upon touching down on home soil, Paralympic silver medallist Jesse Zesseu called his first Games a surreal moment. Several Canadian Paralympians returned home at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, with smiles on their faces and some with family awaiting them at arrivals. Zesseu, a 25-year-old from Toronto, won silver in the […]

TORONTO (AP) — New York Mets right-hander Paul Blackburn won’t pitch against the Toronto Blue Jays this series because of a sore lower back, manager Carlos Mendoza said Monday. Blackburn had been expected to come off the 15-day injured list to face the Blue Jays. Instead, right-hander Tylor Megill was set to start Monday for […]

TORONTO — The Juno Awards are pulling four categories from next year’s ceremony as part of a wider review of Canada’s biggest music awards show. In a letter obtained by The Canadian Press, organizers told committee members last week of plans to put on “hiatus” reggae recording, children’s album, Christian/gospel album and international album of […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index gained almost 250 points Monday amid a broad rally led by financial, industrial and technology stocks, while U.S. markets also climbed higher, snapping out of last week’s losing streak. “The U.S. market is staging a pretty nice rebound after what was the worst week of the year,” said Mona […]