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Canada’s main stock index climbed Friday on a broad-based rally, bringing an end to what had been a six-day losing streak. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 400.14 points at 20,099.19. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 466.

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TORONTO — As the Competition Bureau seeks to block Rogers Communications Inc.'s takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.

TORONTO — Canadians are returning to cinemas after more than two years of COVID-19 measures, handing a revenue bump to the country's largest cinema chain. Cineplex Inc.

The World Travel and Tourism Council says the sector will come within sight of pre-pandemic levels of activity in Canada this year, but won't match 2019 numbers until next year as bottled-up demand is uncorked across the globe.

LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk said Friday that his plan to buy Twitter for $44 billion is “temporarily on hold” as he tries to pinpoint the exact number of spam and fake accounts on the social media platform, another twist amid signs of internal turmoil ov

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread “explosively” across North Korea, state media said Friday, a day after acknowledging a COVID-19 outbreak for the first time in the pandemic.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Finland’s leaders Thursday came out in favor of applying to join NATO, and Sweden could do the same within days, in a historic realignment on the continent 2 1/2 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, fresh off winning Senate confirmation for a second term earlier in the day, acknowledged for the first time Thursday that high inflation and economic weakness overseas could thwart his efforts to