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TORONTO — A four-part docuseries on The Tragically Hip and film shorts from Oscar-winner Torill Kove and actor Connor Jessup are among the homegrown additions to the Toronto International Film Festival.

SMITHS FALLS, Ont. — Canopy Growth Corp. posted a larger loss in its latest quarter compared with a year ago as its revenue declined. The cannabis producer says its loss attributable to the company amounted to $127.1 million or $1.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. says it has signed a deal to sell its renewable energy business to a subsidiary of LS Power for up to US$2.5 billion.

TORONTO — Bell Canada made more than $64 million in gross revenues from calls made by inmates at Ontario jails — at "exorbitant" rates, lawyers allege in a lawsuit — and gave nearly $39 million of that to the province as commission, according to new

TORONTO — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. gave his Hall of Fame father something to cheer about in what otherwise has been a doom and gloom season for the Toronto Blue Jays. With Vladimir Guerrero Sr.

TORONTO (AP) — Top-seeded Coco Gauff routed Yafan Wang 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday in the second round of the National Bank Open. Preparing for her U.S. Open title defense, Gauff played her first hard-court match since the Miami Open in April.

OTTAWA — A proposed law to prohibit keeping elephants and great apes in captivity in Canada could cost up to $8 million to administer over the first five years, the parliamentary budget officer said in a new analysis Thursday.

TORONTO — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust says its net income for the second quarter was $122.4 million, up from $112.0 million during the same quarter last year. RioCan says its revenues totalled $292.2 million, up from $276.

TORONTO — Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc. says it earned $15.8 million in its second quarter, up from $12.7 million a year earlier. The Toronto-based company says its revenues for the quarter were $232.5 million, up from $217.

OTTAWA — A new fight is playing out at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission over the first $100-million annual payment Google agreed to pay Canadian news outlets.