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OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators are "hopeful" that Erik Karlsson will be ready for the start of the 2017-18 season following surgery to his left foot on Wednesday.

HALIFAX — A woman who broke up with her fiance after a fight over wedding expenses can keep the engagement ring, a Halifax adjudicator has ruled. Devin Sherrington had sued his would-be bride, Lauren Arbuckle, in small claims court for the 3.

TORONTO — Canadian merchants may soon start charging customers extra to pay with certain credit cards thanks to a settlement agreement in a class action suit.

TORONTO — Some thirty floors above Toronto's streets, a select group of people caught a glimpse of the future.

WINNIPEG — People in sub-arctic Churchill, Man., face the prospect of running out of heating fuel over the winter unless the region's rail line is repaired and service is restored, Mayor Mike Spence said Wednesday.

TORONTO — The price of oil fell to its lowest level in six months Wednesday, as the energy sector weighed heavily on Canada's largest stock index. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index shed 209.62 points, or 1.

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, June 14 ——— GUNMAN WOUNDS U.S. LAWMAKER, THEN KILLED BY POLICE: A Republican-hating gunman who had spewed rage upon U.S. President Donald Trump and his party opened fire on a group of U.S.

TORONTO — The chief economist of the Canadian Real Estate Association says homeowners in the Greater Toronto Area should brace themselves for a possible tax on speculative home purchases.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — A bottle-manufacturing company with a plant in Brampton, Ont. has been fined $100,000 after a workplace accident caused permanent injuries to an employee's hand.

TORONTO — Ontario's Liberal government is offering a second group of civil servants a deal, without demanding any concessions, that would extend their contracts past the next election.