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CENTRAL HURON, ONT. — The mayor of the municipality where Alice Munro lived for much of her adult life says he would “consider” amending the monument to the celebrated writer outside the public library in Clinton, Ont., although he does not personally support such a move. Jim Ginn, the mayor of Central Huron, says he […]

OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says numerous Silk and Great Value brand plant-based refrigerated beverages are being recalled due to Listeria concerns. The agency’s recall applies to Silk brand almond milk, coconut milk, almond-coconut milk and oat milk, as well as Great Value brand almond milk. It says the recall was triggered by […]

Pro-Palestinian protesters dismantled their encampments at two southern Ontario universities over the weekend, while demonstrators at another university campus were handed a trespass notice Monday and warned legal action could follow. The encampments at the University of Waterloo and Western University were cleared roughly two months after they were established as part of a broader […]

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly met with her new British counterpart Monday for the first time since the Labour Party took power in the United Kingdom last week. She is the first foreign minister to be invited to meet with David Lammy in London since his recent appointment as U.K. secretary of state […]

TORONTO — Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri is willing to be patient with Sasha Vezenkov. The 28-year-old forward was traded from the Sacramento Kings to the Raptors on June 28 on the second day of the NBA Draft. Vezenkov was sent to Toronto along with Davion Mitchell, the draft rights to Jamal Shead, and a […]

TORONTO — Units of DRI Healthcare Trust sank nearly 30 per cent after the trust removed its chief executive and suspended its chief financial officer as a result of an investigation of irregularities related to certain alleged consulting and other expenses. DRI says the board of trustees demanded and received the immediate resignation of Behzad […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index posted a gain Monday, helped by strength in financial stocks, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 67.10 points at 22,126.13. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 31.08 points at 39,344.79. The S&P 500 index was up 5.66 points at […]

OTTAWA — Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux suggests it’s up to Canadians to decide whether they believe the government’s proposal to create a new regulator against online harms amounts to bureaucracy, or a necessary enforcement tool. Last week Giroux issued a cost estimate for the government’s new online harms legislation would cost around $201 million […]

GUELPH, Ont. — The University of Guelph says it has issued a trespass notice to pro-Palestinian protesters who set up camp on school grounds more than a month ago. The university says in a written statement that it handed out the notices Monday morning after demonstrators ignored its request to dismantle the camp by Sunday […]

WATERLOO, Ont. — Pro-Palestinian protesters have dismantled their nearly two-month-old encampment at the University of Waterloo and the school says it is now ending legal action it had filed against the group. The university had launched a lawsuit against the participants of the encampment that was set up on May 13, alleging the demonstration had […]