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Portage la Prairie RCMP used a drone and Police Dog Services to locate a suspect hiding in deep brush near a commercial business on 4th Avenue Northeast on Oct. 10. A 44-year-old Winnipeg man faces multiple charges following the alleged break-in. Facebook/Portage la Prairie RCMP A property owner’s discovery of a suspect inside a secured commercial compound led to a police drone search and an arrest in Portage la Prairie, with a Winnipeg man now facing multiple charges.

With Thanksgiving weekend behind us, Costco Canada shoppers are being advised to check whether they’ve purchased a product included in the latest recall. On Tuesday, Costco Canada shared a notice from California-based company Kevin’s Natural Foods, stating that it’s recalling its turkey gravy across several provinces due to undeclared mustard.

Federal Reserve interest-rate decision later this month may be a closer call than previously thought after Labor Department data showed consumer prices were up 3.7 per cent last month from a year earlier, well above the Fed’s 2 per cent target and moving in the wrong direction. Higher gasoline prices from the Middle East war were a main driver. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, the core consumer price index (CPI) was up 2.6 per cent, more than the 2.5 per cent economists polled by Reuters had projected.

Open this photo in gallery:TD and BMO are among nine U. S. lenders accused by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of having denied or limited access to financial services for some customers. Andrew Lahodynskyj/The Canadian PressToronto-Dominion Bank TD-T and Bank of Montreal BMO-T are among a list of nine lenders identified by a major U. S. banking regulator as having “denied, debanked and discriminated” against customers and businesses on political grounds, after President Donald Trump’s calls to stem these activities.

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The Canadian dollar was weaker Wednesday morning, dipping below 70 U. S. cents. At 9:15 a.m. CDT the Canadian dollar was trading at US$0.6990 or US$1=C$1.4306 which compares with Tuesday’s close of US$0.7031 or US$1=C$1.4222.

Global Affairs Canada has responded to questions surrounding Tesla’s exhausted Model 3 import allocation, but stopped short of explaining why the automaker has paused orders in Canada despite more than 33,000 Chinese EV import spots remaining available. In an exclusive statement, the department confirmed with Drive Tesla it is consulting with automakers on how to distribute the remaining quota, but would not say whether Tesla is subject to a company-specific limit.

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BNN Bloomberg is Canada’s definitive source for business news dedicated exclusively to helping Canadians invest and build their businesses. NEW YORK — U. S. stocks dropped to their worst day since July on Wednesday following the latest signal that inflation is getting worse. The S&P 500 sank 1.1 per cent for a fifth loss in the six days since setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points, or 0.1 per cent, and the Nasdaq composite slid 1.9 per cent as stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry led the way lower. Stocks felt pressure from rising yields in the bond market, where worries grew after a report said U. S. consumers had to pay prices for fuel, food and other costs of living last month that were 3.7 per cent higher overall than a year earlier. That means inflation accelerated from its 3.4 per cent rate in August and was worse than the 3.6 per cent that economists expected. S&P 500 market updates hereInflation has remained more painful than anyone would like since the economy catapulted out of the crevasse created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ever since ChatGPT blew up the tech industry, the so-called godfathers of AI have remained been pretty dour about their creations — well, except for one of them — and they’re certainly not sounding any more optimistic about its consequences now. In an open letter published Tuesday, some 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, two pioneers of the tech whose work on deep learning was foundational to modern LLMs, called for the creation of an international body to set containment measures for AI models, and maintain a registry of significant AI security incidents, Reuters reported.

A big gas price discount is coming to Canada, but only temporarily. Circle K announced that its National Fuel Day promotion is returning on Thursday and it comes as fuel prices remain high since the start of the Iran war.

MidwesternBy Ryan DruryOctober 14, 2026 - 9:27amPolice are investigating after a motorbike was stolen from a Southgate business. According to Grey Bruce OPP, on October 5 at 7:23 p.m., officers received a report of a motorbike theft that occurred during the evening hours of October 4. Investigators determined that on October 4 at 9:30 p.m., surveillance footage captured the theft of a red, white, and black 2001 Honda CR250R from a business parking lot near Symington Street and Milliner Avenue in the Township of Southgate. Police say two unknown suspects arrived in a black Dodge Ram pick-up with no front licence plate, a front-mounted light bar, and a rear passenger-side taillight that didn't work. One of the suspects drove off on the stolen motorbike, and the other left on another motorbike. Investigators are asking anyone with information about this incident, or who may have CCTV, dash-cam, or residential security camera footage from the area around the time of the theft, to contact the Grey Bruce OPP or Crime Stoppers. Grey Bruce OPP are hoping to identify this suspect involved in the theft of a motorbike from a Southgate business on October 4.