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TORONTO — Ontario sports bettors will be able to place online wagers on the $1-million King's Plate.

TORONTO — Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray will not suit up for Canada in the upcoming FIBA World Cup, Canada Basketball announced on Wednesday.

Toronto police say a fatal hit and run in the city's downtown core is being investigated as a homicide. Officers responded to reports around 10:50 Tuesday night of a male pedestrian hit by a vehicle in the area of Sherbourne Street and Queen Street.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grains, fell 2.8 per cent to $80.5 billion in June.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in July fell 10 per cent compared with June when they posted their strongest showing so far this year.

MONTREAL — D-Box Technologies Inc. says it has launched a review of strategic alternatives.

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Montreal researchers are joining an international study to learn more about a little-understood genetic disease that is found in Canada, and especially in Quebec and in Acadian regions of the Maritimes. Dr.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Party government has begun establishing a new provincial police service, but the minister in charge says it won't have an oversight body until boots are on the ground.

OTTAWA — The alarm bells are becoming bull horns: Canada's housing supply isn't keeping up with the rapid rate of population growth.