Indigenous

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Crown prosecutors were handed new tools Thursday to root out systemic anti-Black racism long embedded within the province's justice system.

TORONTO — CIBC and TD Bank wrapped a round of quarterly bank results Thursday that, like the Canadian economy itself, largely beat what were fairly low expectations.

OTTAWA — Canada's public broadcaster is getting an increase in funding, despite executives insisting that a request to cut CBC/Radio-Canada's budget for the next fiscal year was one reason they announced layoffs for 10 per cent of staff.

SAINT-JÉRÔME, Que. — The Lion Electric Co. says it is laying off 100 more employees or about seven per cent of its total workforce in a move to reduce costs.

TORONTO — A prominent Indigenous film and media arts festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary a year late. Organizers of the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival say they are delaying this year's event until 2025.

MONTREAL — WSP Global beat earnings expectations last quarter, boosting profits by nearly nine per cent year-over-year and forecasting a similar jump in adjusted earnings for 2024. Organic growth at the engineering company drove $130.

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MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner has issued a final report into the violent deaths of three people who were shot at random in the Montreal area by a mentally ill man in 2022, recommending the province look at creating a dedicated court to deal with mental

OTTAWA — Nuclear operator Bruce Power is set to receive up to $50 million from the federal government to explore building a new nuclear plant on the site of its existing Ontario facility.

MONTREAL — Quebec's secularism law, known as Bill 21, has faced numerous court challenges since it was adopted nearly five years ago, with the Quebec Court of Appeal the latest to weigh in. Here's a look at the law.