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OTTAWA — Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says grocers will offer discounts, price freezes and price matching as an initial step to stabilize grocery prices.

TORONTO — The former chief executive of Rogers Communications Inc. has fired back at the company, alleging Rogers is carrying out "a campaign of dishonesty" surrounding his ouster in November 2021 by fabricating claims in its defence to his lawsuit.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner has called a public hearing into the death of a woman who was struck by plastic bullets fired by Victoria police on Christmas Day 2019.

OTTAWA — An architectural group that was chosen by a jury to build a monument to Canada's mission in Afghanistan says the government's decision to award the contract to a different group is outrageous and anti-democratic.

TORONTO — Former Toronto mayor John Tory broke the city council's code of conduct with his relationship with a staffer, the city's integrity commissioner found in a report released Thursday. Tory resigned as mayor on Feb.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government has proclaimed Oct. 7 as George Reed Day to honour one of the Canadian Football League's greatest players.

WASHINGTON — Outside the beltway, as the saying goes, the MAGA-fuelled Republican schism on Capitol Hill that just cost former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy his job comes as little shock in a country where political dysfunction is the norm.

Toronto FC took another body blow on Thursday with news that midfielder Brandon Servania has a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

MURRAY HARBOUR, P.E.I. — A First Nation chief and the mayor of a Prince Edward Island community are calling for a councillor to resign over a sign posted on his property denying the existence of residential school graves.

OTTAWA — Competition Bureau commissioner Matthew Boswell says new research from the bureau finds the competition intensity in the country has decreased over the last two decades.