NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The choices on the movie marquee this weekend included Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, a film about Donald Trump, a 鈥淪aturday Night Live鈥 origin story and even Pharrell Williams as a Lego. In the end, all were trounced by an ax-wielding clown.
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TORONTO - Spotify is raising its prices again in Canada.
OTTAWA - The Canadian labour market exceeded many economists' expectations in September, adding more than twice as many jobs as the previous month while unemployment ticked lower.
OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's September employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in September. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in September. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical …
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Taiga Motors Corp. says the Superior Court of Qu茅bec has approved its sale to a British electric boat entrepreneur.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥 Florida theme parks including Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld planned to reopen Friday after an assessment of the effects of Hurricane Milton.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥 Tourism in Orlando rapidly came to a standstill Wednesday with the main airport and at least three theme parks and other businesses set to shut down, leaving Florida residents and visitors fleeing Hurricane Milton to hunker down in area hotels.
TORONTO - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday that the federal government is moving ahead with guidelines around sustainable investing and corporate climate disclosures, but details on the plans are scarce.
PARIS (AP) 鈥 French President Emmanuel Macron says he's 鈥渟uper proud鈥 of a cameo appearance by his wife, Brigitte, in the fourth season of the Netflix show 鈥淓mily in Paris" but doesn't seem keen to make a guest appearance of his own.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Nearly a decade into the Trump Era of politics, less than a month from his third Election Day as the Republican candidate for president and there is still remarkably little consensus within the media about how best to cover Donald Trump.
LAS VEGAS (AP) 鈥 Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Qantas Airways has drawn up a stir after broadcasting a slightly-racy movie across an entire flight. And the Australian carrier now is apologizing to customers.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥 Orlandosa国际传媒 tourism machine began grinding to a halt Tuesday with at least three major theme parks and the main airport announcing closures ahead of Hurricane Milton sa国际传媒 expected hit as a major storm in Florida.
TORONTO (AP) 鈥 When Pharrell Williams and Morgan Neville decided to embark on a movie about Williams鈥 life but animated in Lego pieces, they knew there would be culture shocks. But making 鈥淧iece by Piece鈥 still led to some places that neither Williams, Neville or Lego could foresee.
Major League Baseball announced Tuesday it will produce and distribute local broadcasts for the Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins next year. All three teams had contracts with Diamond Sports Group that expired at the end of the regular season.
TORONTO - Rogers Communications is confirming plans to broadcast several specialty channels as part of a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery that Bell Media had attempted to thwart.
NEW YORK - More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids.
OTTAWA - Inflation and higher interest rates have eroded Canadians' purchasing power since 2022, particularly for lower-income households, a new report from the parliamentary budget officer has found.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥 A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company's internet empire.
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed 鈥淧harma Bro鈥 after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.
MONTREAL - In a victory for air travellers, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld rules that bolster compensation for passengers subjected to delays and damaged luggage on international flights.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 Shares of Ubisoft jumped more than 30% Friday, following reports that Tencent and the Guillemot family are considering a buyout of the video game maker.
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TORONTO - Canada's industry minister has thrown his support behind a call from one of Shopify Inc.'s leaders for the country to get more ambitious.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 For years, the Grammy Awards have been criticized over a lack of diversity 鈥 artists of color and women left out of top prizes; rap and contemporary R&B stars ignored 鈥 a reflection of the Recording Academy's electorate. An evolving voting body, 66% of whom have joined in…
TORONTO - Amazon Web Services鈥 director of global artificial intelligence is encouraging Canada not to go it alone when it comes to regulating the technology.
MONTREAL - Swedish private equity firm Altor has signed a deal to buy CCM Hockey, as the two companies eye new demographics and try to build out the global market share of Canada's oldest hockey equipment maker.
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) 鈥 Concert promoter Live Nation isn't responsible for the deaths of three young men who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator while camping at a Michigan music festival in 2021, the state appeals court said.
OTTAWA - Owners of small and medium-sized businesses will finally receive their long-awaited carbon pricing refunds before the end of this year, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced on Tuesday.
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DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streaming services that have become dominant.
The owner of Bauer Hockey says affiliates of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. will acquire controlling interest in its overall business.
TORONTO - Ask Meta Platforms Inc.'s head of artificial intelligence research how the technology could be made safer and she takes inspiration from an unlikely place: the grocery store.
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 On a hot summer evening, Miles Villalon lined up outside the New Beverly Cinema, hours before showtime.
VANCOUVER - Canada's labour minister says striking grain terminal workers in Metro Vancouver and their employers have reached a tentative labour deal.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general election campaign's third debate next week, says it will be up to the politicians 鈥 not the moderators 鈥 to check the facts of their opponents.
VANCOUVER - Negotiations to end a strike by grain terminal workers in Metro Vancouver have stalled, with the employers' association saying it's "disappointed" with the results of two days of talks.
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy grew more than expected in July, but the strength was short-lived as the momentum seems to have failed to carry over into August.
OTTAWA - The federal government's deficit has grown to $7.3 billion so far this fiscal year.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Prince Harrysa国际传媒 latest philanthropic move will gather world business leaders and philanthropists to work towards fostering prosperity in Southern African communities, specifically focused on young people.
LONDON (AP) 鈥 British supermodel Naomi Campbell has been barred from being a charity trustee in England and Wales for five years after the poverty charity she founded nearly two decades ago was deemed Thursday to have been 鈥減oorly governed鈥 with 鈥渋nadequate financial management.鈥
A Florida firm owned by former contestants on 鈥淭he Apprentice鈥 has disposed of nearly all its 5.5% stake in Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns former president Donald Trump's Truth Social platform.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) 鈥 Parents in California who profit from social media posts featuring their children will be required to set aside some earnings for their minor influencers under a pair of measures signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
TORONTO - Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen feels "extremely hopeful" about society's ability to push social media platforms into being safer but for change to come, she says these companies need to be motivated in a new way.
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