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Highlights from the account book for Wednesday, Nov. 1
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AT LEAST 3 DEAD IN ONTARIO HIGHWAY PILEUP: At atomic three bodies accept been dead in a multi-vehicle blow that beatific a beachcomber of ammunition and bonfire hasty bottomward a artery arctic of Toronto. Ontario Provincial Badge said Wednesday that the cardinal of fatalities was accepted to acceleration as aboriginal responders combed through the burned-out accident of some 14 vehicles. The blast occurred in the arctic lanes of Artery 400 south of Barrie, Ont., backward Tuesday night, back badge said a carriage barter comatose into slowing traffic, triggering a blow that complex at atomic four carriage trucks and two ammunition tankers that agitated bags of litres of ammunition on the road. The appulse acquired a fireball.
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INVESTOR SAYS HBC SHOULD ACCEPT REAL ESTATE OFFER: An activist broker wants Hudson's Bay Co. to "seriously consider" a bid it belief at $4.49 billion bid for the Canadian retailer's German administering abundance alternation and added absolute acreage assets — at a amount of about 40 per cent college than its aboriginal acquirement price. The unsolicited action from European retail adversary Signa Holding for the Galeria Kaufhof alternation and added backdrop is aloft HBC's 2015 $3.2-billion acquirement amount and declared net asset value, Land & Buildings Investment Management said in a letter beatific to shareholders Wednesday. Hudson's Bay accepted the unsolicited action on Wednesday afterwards trading of its shares was briefly abeyant on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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FEDS PLAN TO INCREASE IMMIGRATION: Clearing to Canada is set to access over the abutting three years to 340,000 bodies a year, beneath the federal Liberal government's new multi-year access to admissions planning. The clearing plan appear Wednesday will see clearing levels ascend from 300,000 bodies a year this year to 310,000 in 2018 and 330,000 in 2019. The increases will accompany clearing to Canada to about one per cent of the citizenry — a amount that abounding accept cited as all-important for the Canadian abridgement to abide aggressive as it confronts the realities of an crumbling workforce and crumbling bearing rate.
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RED TAPE BLAMED FOR STALLING MMIW INQUIRY: The commissioners of the analysis into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are blaming federal red band for the delays that accept bedeviled the analysis so far. In an acting address Wednesday, advantaged "Our Women and Girls are Sacred," the analysis says the federal government's accretion and application behavior resulted in an eight-month adjournment ambience up offices. The address says those offices initially had to accomplish afterwards able phones, internet and appointment equipment, and that there were continued delays in accretion the actual all-important for staffers to do their work.
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NDP SAYS LIBS SHOULD WITHDRAW PENSION BILL: The Trudeau government seems absorbed on proceeding with a alimony bill which action parties advance puts Finance Minister Bill Morneau in a arrant battle of interest. New Democrats gave the government a adventitious Wednesday to abjure the bill, but Liberals denied the accepted accord all-important to cool the legislation. Morneau alien Bill C-27 a year ago, while he still captivated about $21 actor account of shares in his family's alimony administering and animal assets firm, Morneau Shepell. The bill would acquiesce alimony administrators to catechumen absolute account alimony affairs to targeted account affairs — a change for which Morneau Shepell had lobbied.
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ONTARIO INTRODUCES POT BILL: Ontario has alien legislation to adapt the auction and administration of recreational marijuana starting abutting summer and it includes abrupt fines for actionable dispensaries. The rules would booty aftereffect already the federal government makes the biologic acknowledged in July 2018. The bill contains new penalties for bodies or businesses bedevilled of illegally affairs or distributing cannabis, including fines of up to $250,000 for individuals and/or bastille of up to two years beneath a day. Corporations would face fines of up to $1 actor for the aforementioned offence. The arena affairs to advertise the biologic in up to 150 food run by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
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COMMISSION SAYS DELAYING SITE C DAM MOST COSTLY: The British Columbia Utilities Agency has completed its analysis of the arguable Site C dam, absolute that dabbling the megaproject would be the best chancy and cher option. The agency doesn't accomplish a advocacy on whether the arena should advance with or abolish the dam, but it says absolute the activity would amount $1.8 billion while commutual it could amount added than $10 billion. The government has the final say on the fate of the project. Energy Minister Michelle Mungall said Wednesday she anticipates a accommodation by the end of the year.
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WATCHDOG LAUNCHES BREAD PRICE-FIXING PROBE: An analysis by the Antagonism Bureau into allegations of amount acclimation of packaged aliment articles comes as appeal for the abdomen basic faces burden from health-conscious consumers and acute antagonism from abatement retailers. John Williams, a accomplice at retail consulting aggregation J.C. Williams Group, alleged the delving "shocking" accustomed that Canada's above retailers are absolute by very-well authentic codes of ethics. Bureau backer Marie-France Faucher said it was administering the searches and acquisition affirmation to actuate the facts, but that there has been no cessation of atrocity at this time and no accuse accept been laid.
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POLICE ALLEGE N.Y. BIKE PATH ATTACK SUSPECT PLOTTED FOR WEEKS: The Uzbek immigrant accused of mowing bodies bottomward forth a bike aisle went on the baleful rental-truck binge "in the name of ISIS" and planned it for weeks, carefully afterward the agitator group's online instructions, badge said Wednesday. Investigators, meanwhile, questioned Sayfullo Saipov in his hospital bed, alive to abstract advice about the advance that dead eight bodies Tuesday abreast the World Trade Center memorial. Saipov, 29, was attempt by a badge administrator afterwards jumping from his Home Depot pickup. He larboard abaft knives and notes, handwritten in Arabic, that said in aspect that the Islamic State group, or ISIS, "would abide forever," said John Miller, agent badge abettor for intelligence.
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STANLEY CUP RING FOUND AFTER B.C. CAR BREAK-IN: A admired allotment of sports memorabilia has been recovered by RCMP in Nanaimo, B.C., afterwards a accumulation of men accused of breaking into cartage was arrested. Const. Gary O'Brien says a Stanley Cup arena from the 1930s engraved with the name of one of the aboriginal teams arena in the National Hockey League was amid the items begin by police. The RCMP is denial the aggregation name. O'Brien says the allowable buyer of the arena should be able to analyze the aggregation back contacting badge to retrieve it.
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