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Canadian banks readying for carbon offsets to go big, even as doubts remain

Canadian banks readying for carbon offsets to go big, even as doubts remain

TORONTO — Banks know a growth market when they see it, and they're increasingly seeing one in the buying, selling and generating of carbon offsets.
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Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week

Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Rogers-Shaw hearings The Competition Tribunal's public hearings on Rogers Communications Inc.'s $26-billion proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.
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Calling Ontario education strike illegal would undermine bargaining rights: Union

Calling Ontario education strike illegal would undermine bargaining rights: Union

TORONTO — Ontario's labour relations board would send a message that labour laws and collective bargaining rights no longer exist if it complies with a government request to declare a strike by provincial education workers illegal, a union lawyer arg
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Matthews scores twice to lead Leafs over Bruins; Samsonov leaves with knee injury

Matthews scores twice to lead Leafs over Bruins; Samsonov leaves with knee injury

TORONTO — Auston Matthews is starting to heat up. And after a rocky opening to the NHL campaign in a pressure-packed market, his Maple Leafs appear to be finding their groove.
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PHF Roundup: Howard stars in overtime as Six top Whitecaps 3-2

TORONTO — Brittany Howard scored her second goal of the game 54 seconds into overtime to lead the Toronto Six past the Minnesota Whitecaps 3-2 on Saturday in Premier Hockey Federation action. It was the first game of the 2022-23 PHF season.
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Former Ontario finance minister to run for federal Liberals in Toronto-area riding

Former Ontario finance minister to run for federal Liberals in Toronto-area riding

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — A former Ontario finance minister will be the federal Liberal candidate in an upcoming byelection in the Toronto area that's set to be called later this month.
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Ontario seeks to have education workers' walkout declared illegal

Ontario seeks to have education workers' walkout declared illegal

TORONTO — Ontario's labour relations board began hearing arguments Friday on the government's application to have a walkout by education workers deemed illegal and actions by union leaders declared unlawful, with the case set to continue into the wee
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What you need to know about the Ontario education workers' strike

What you need to know about the Ontario education workers' strike

Thousands of Ontario education workers are on picket lines indefinitely as of Friday in defiance of a provincial government law that has imposed a contract on 55,000 workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees and banned them from s
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CUPE members hit picket lines as indefinite education strike begins

CUPE members hit picket lines as indefinite education strike begins

Thousands of Ontario education workers hit picket lines across the province Friday morning, honking noisemakers, waving flags and chanting "stand up, fight back," on the first day of an indefinite walkout that's shut many schools.
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Jury recommends anti-racism training for police after Indigenous men's custody deaths

Jury recommends anti-racism training for police after Indigenous men's custody deaths

Thunder Bay police and paramedics should receive mandatory, ongoing training on anti-Indigenous racism, unconscious bias and the history of colonization, an inquest jury recommended Friday after examining the police custody deaths of two First Nation
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