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BRAMPTON, Ont. — Brampton, Ont., says transit and other local services are facing disruptions and delays after 1,200 municipal employees went on strike.

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. executives are seeing early signs that consumers could soon ease up on the careful shopping habits they adopted to cope with inflation, but their outlook on the economy is still far from rosy.

TORONTO — Hannah Logan didn't expect to wind up in the hospital, or face a pricey bill for X-rays and medication when she travelled to Bosnia over a decade ago.

SAINT CATHARINES, Ont. — Saskatchewan's Jason Ackerman remained undefeated on Wednesday with a 7-4 win over Newfoundland and Labrador's Trent Skanes at the Canadian mixed curling championship.

KINGSTON, Ont. — Luca Pinelli had a goal and two assists as the Ottawa 67's used a three-goal third period to defeat the Kingston Frontenacs 4-2 on Wednesday in Ontario Hockey League action.

TORONTO — Police say one man is dead and two others are injured after a pit collapsed during sewer pipe repairs in Toronto. Toronto police say the men were fixing a sewage pipe when the pit collapsed on them. Police say it happened at around 5:25 p.

TORONTO — Manulife Financial Corp. says it earned $1.84 billion in the third quarter, up from $1.01 billion a year earlier. The insurer says adjusted earnings, or what it calls core earnings, were $1.83 billion, up from $1.

TORONTO — U.S. stocks surged Wednesday after Republican candidate Donald Trump won the election, with the Dow Jones industrial average gaining 3.6 per cent, while Canadian markets rose by one per cent.

OTTAWA — P.J. Akeeagok is still the premier of Nunavut after surviving a tight confidence vote in the Legislature on Wednesday. In a 10-8 vote, MLAs defeated a motion to strip him of his premiership and remove him from cabinet.

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The Correctional Service of Canada says Angel Jones, who was serving an indeterminate sentence in a British Columbia prison for biting a woman's nose off, has died of natural causes at the age of 47.