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MONTREAL — The heads of Quebec's three English-language universities met the premier and his minister of higher education on Monday, promising to ensure that more out-of-province students graduate with a knowledge of French.

TORONTO — Unifor says Stellantis production workers voted 60 per cent in favour of a new three-year contract with the automaker. The deal covers workers at the company's Windsor and Brampton, Ont., assembly plants and Etobicoke Casting Plant.

Canadians in Gaza are still waiting to be allowed to leave the besieged Palestinian territory via a border crossing with Egypt as the Israel-Hamas war continues.

VANCOUVER — The union representing soccer referees in Major League Soccer are criticizing comments made by Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Vanni Sartini after his team's playoff elimination on the weekend.

OTTAWA — Two Nigerian maintenance workers were killed Monday and two others injured when a diesel tank exploded at Canada's high commission in Abuja.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have extended a qualifying offer to third baseman Matt Chapman for next season. Chapman will have until Nov. 14 to accept the offer.

HUMBOLDT, SASK. — The mayor of a Saskatchewan city says two girls fell through the ice on a lake and family members died trying to save them.

MEG Energy Corp. says it earned $249 million in the third quarter, up from $156 million a year earlier. The Calgary-based energy company says earnings per diluted share were 86 cents, up from 51 cents during the same quarter last year.

LAVAL, Que. — Teamsters Canada says retail and call centre workers at Freedom Mobile across the country have unionized after a six-month organizing drive and negotiated their first collective agreement.

MONTREAL — A renowned Canadian pairs skating coach was sentenced on Monday to 12 months in jail for sexual assault and gross indecency against a teenage athlete in the 1980s.