Ontario News

OTTAWA — Rick Campbell is back with the Ottawa Redblacks. Campbell was named Ottawa's special-teams co-ordinator Thursday.

TORONTO — RBC says it has partnered with Cohere Inc. to develop generative artificial intelligence products for the financial industry. It says the partnership will help create more accurate and verifiable models with a focus on risk and security.

PERTH — The Canadian women have been drawn in Pool B alongside Britain, Fiji and the U.S. at the HSBC SVNS Perth in Australia later this month. The Perth event, the third round of the seven-stop rugby sevens season, runs Jan. 24-26 at HBF Park.

TORONTO — Canadian investment firm Northleaf Capital Partners has partnered with Swedish private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to invest in CCM Hockey. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

ANCASTER, Ont. — Putman Investments says it has acquired clothing retailer Northern Reflections. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

TORONTO — An increasing number of overdose deaths in Ontario involves the use of more than one drug, with the combination of opioids and stimulants proving to be especially dangerous, a new report says.

TORONTO — An 18-year-old from Oshawa has been charged with dangerous driving after a collision with an Ontario Provincial Police vehicle that Premier Doug Ford was travelling in.

SUDBURY, Ont. — Kocha Delic scored a hat trick and goalie Nate Krawchuk stopped 39 shots for the Sudbury Wolves in a 7-1 thrashing of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the Ontario Hockey League on Wednesday.

School boards in multiple provinces have been affected by a data breach involving software used by schools across North America to store student information.

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