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CALGARY — Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) says it has reached a deal to acquire Calgary-based oil and gas explorer Storm Resources Ltd. for $6.28 per share, a price that pegs Storm's enterprise value at $960 million.

TORONTO — Lifting COVID-19 restrictions helped one of Canada's most prominent commercial landlords collect more rent in its most recent quarter than at any other point during the pandemic.

OSHAWA, Ont. — General Motors has restarted vehicle production at its Oshawa Assembly Plant after shutting operations down at the end of 2019.

TORONTO — CI Financial Corp. has signed a deal to buy Gofen and Glossberg LLC, a U.S. wealth and investment management firm focused on high-net-worth families. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately available.

Learning a new language as an adult isn't necessarily more difficult than picking it up as a child, some linguistics and phonetics experts say. But it takes a bit more work, they add, and more desire and motivation to learn it.

OTTAWA — The number of insolvencies in Canada in the third quarter edged up compared with the same quarter last year as the number of consumers unable to pay their bills edged higher.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a new pandemic low 267,000 last week as the job market recovers from last year's sharp coronavirus downturn.

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry has sharply attacked the failure of social media companies to challenge hate online, revealing that he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Vietnamese oil tanker earlier seized by Iran was free in open water Wednesday, ending the latest maritime confrontation involving Tehran amid stalled negotiations over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel's prime-time lineup gets plenty of attention, but, lately, the network's viewers have been drawn to an early-bird special.