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TORONTO — Researchers say pediatricians, family doctors and parents need to learn more about what kind of performance-enhancing substances kids are using when they work out or play sports.

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.

Like its namesake barrels that transported soda crackers until boxes replaced them, Cracker Barrel needed to change.

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%.

Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has written a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours” about an author on tour to promote a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours.” As Ryan says in an endnote, it’s very meta.

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.

HALIFAX — A gold mine in eastern Nova Scotia received its final permit approval from the provincial government on Wednesday, seven years after the project was first submitted for environmental scrutiny.

Officials in Northwest Territories say they are preparing for "extremely challenging" wildfire activity this week as they tell residents of a First Nation community to prepare for a possible evacuation.

Canadian consumers are proving to be a headscratcher for Dollarama Inc.

TORONTO — There’s everyday meal prep, and then there’s back-to-school lunch prep for a fickle child whose favourite foods become their most hated overnight.