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MONTREAL — Anti-smoking advocates urged the provinces and territories to use money from a historic tobacco settlement on public health programs as the provinces are set to receive initial amounts starting Friday.

TORONTO — EQB Inc. reported adjusted net income of $80.3 million during the third quarter, marking a 32 per cent decline from the previous year.

The expanded Trans Mountain pipeline, which came into service in May 2024, shipped 730,000 barrels per day during the first half of the year, about 82 per cent of its total capacity of 890,000 barrels.

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Lottery Corp.

TORONTO — Hudbay Minerals Inc. says it's resuming its Snow Lake mining operations after it halted work in July due to wildfires in northwestern Manitoba.

TORONTO — Strength in the financials sector helped Canada's main stock index finish higher on Wednesday as the big banks continue to report results, while U.S. stock markets also rose.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets rose at a slower pace than analysts anticipated during the company’s latest quarter, a letdown likely to stoke worries that the AI craze has been fool’s gold.

OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the federal government and municipalities across Ontario should mandate their workers to return to the office full time. Speaking to reporters in Inglewood, Ont.

Stocks edged higher ahead of a closely watched earnings report from Nvidia. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Wednesday, beating the all-time high it set two weeks ago. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.3%.

OTTAWA — The federal government's new major projects office will launch this week, a key element in Ottawa's push to spur construction of new large-scale infrastructure, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said.