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OTTAWA — Sharon Acoose remembers being groped as a child by an uncle who paid her in pocket change for her trouble — the earliest roots of a life scarred by sex work, drug use and jail time. "He would give me a quarter ...

OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is announcing a plan to phase out the use of coal-fired electricity by 2030.

OTTAWA — Canada's spy agency is openly warning that Russia and China are out to steal the country's most prized secrets.

TORONTO — DH Corp. is slashing its quarterly dividend by 63 per cent starting in January while it undergoes a strategic transformation into a financial technology company.

TORONTO — Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX:L) reported an increase in its third-quarter profit compared with a year ago, helped by improved sales and lower restructuring charges.

OTTAWA — The multibillion-dollar effort to replace the navy's warship fleet is being buffeted by concerns about a potential conflict of interest involving the Halifax company that is leading the project.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 0.3 per cent to $51.5 billion in September, boosted by higher sales in the transportation equipment and fabricated metal industries. Economists had expected a gain of 0.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Real Estate Association says the number of homes sold last month throughout the country hit a record for the month of October.

TORONTO — Royal Bank (TSX:RY) said Tuesday it is hiking mortgage rates and making it more expensive for homebuyers who want to take more than 25 years to pay back their loan.

Toronto police are seeking a man they allege pulled a woman off her bike by her hair then assaulted and robbed her earlier this month. Police say it happened just before 9 p.m. on Nov. 1 (in the College Street and Spadina Avenue area).