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Maple Leaf Foods (MFI) is spinning off its pork business into a separate publicly traded company as it tries to turnaround its poor-performing stock. In a news release, Toronto-based Maple Leaf said it is spinning off its pork division so that it can focus on its more profitable packaged goods business that includes ready-to-serve foods such as Ready Crisp bacon.Under the plan, Maple Leaf stockholders will receive shares in the new company, while Maple Leaf will retain a 20% ownership stake in the still unnamed pork company. Additionally, the new pork company will continue to provide Maple Leaf…

Toronto police have released images of three additional suspects wanted in connection with an armed robbery at a downtown Toronto jewellery store last year.

The LCBO says it has scrapped a plan to temporarily reopen five stores to allow bar and restaurant owners to buy alcohol amid the ongoing strike after the Crown corporation said the union threatened to picket at these locations.

Turner Valley RCMP are looking for the public’s help to find an Edmonton man who went missing in Kananaskis Country last week.

The RCMP has arrested seven people and laid 65 charges in connection to a child exploitation and human trafficking investigation.

Federal officials are set to say how much more likely Eastern Canada’s heat wave was because of human-caused climate change.

A judge is expected to decide this week whether a man who admitted to killing four Indigenous women in Winnipeg did so because he was in the throes of a psychotic episode or was driven by a rare form of perverse sexual interest.

A 35-year-old man is in hospital after a shooting in the borough of Montreal North.

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Leduc’s city council has rescinded its decision two weeks ago to approve a winter emergency shelter.