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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to attend the G7 leaders' summit next month in Italy, followed by the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland.

A group of Canadian and American experts is urging emergency room doctors to prescribe specific medications to help curb cravings and alleviate withdrawal from heavy use of alcohol, which leads to more hospitalizations than any other substance.

TORONTO — An Ontario judge issued an order Tuesday that recognizes and enforces Red Lobster’s U.S. bankruptcy protection proceedings in Canada.

Protesters at a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto said Tuesday they will stay at the site despite threats of discipline from the school and a looming legal action.

OTTAWA — Canada's privacy czar and a government official are warning that a Senate bill proposing to block minors from "sexually explicit material" online could apply to streaming services such as Netflix.

A McMaster University professor, whose alleged pattern of sexual misconduct with multiple students involved behaviour the university called "unethical, inappropriate and in some instances exploitative," has been fired.

OTTAWA — Conservatives say the federal government is offering "false hope" to Canadians with a national pharmacare bill that will not initially apply to a broad range of medications.

OTTAWA — The parliamentary secretary for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is criticizing the parliamentary budget officer for not issuing a more-public correction to its carbon price analysis after finding an error in it.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (22,265.05, down 108.33 points): Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Up 26 cents, or 0.47 per cent, to $55.54 on 12.1 million shares.

TORONTO — Losses in industrial, utility and financial stocks weighed on the Toronto stock market as Canada's main stock index fell more than 100 points Tuesday, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 108.