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VANCOUVER — Gusty winds and unsettled weather in parts of British Columbia helped kick up several wildfires over the weekend, forcing a number of evacuation orders and alerts.

TORONTO — Before Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne ruled Rogers Communications Inc.

NEW YORK — Major League Soccer has terminated the contract of CF Montreal midfielder Matko Miljevic.

Police say two 13-year-old girls have been charged with assault after another teen girl was stabbed in an altercation in a Vaughan, Ont., parking lot over the weekend. York Regional Police say they received a call just before 8 p.m.

TORONTO — Deryck Whibley, the lead singer of pop-punk band Sum 41, is back home after being hospitalized with a case of pneumonia.

Toronto police are investigating after a man was stabbed at a transit station in the city's east end. Police say officers responded to the bus bay at Victoria Park station on Sunday evening and found a 50-year-old man had been stabbed in the torso.

MONTREAL — BMO Financial Group plans to close its indirect retail auto finance business in order to reroute resources, as borrowers dig deep to stay on top of recent interest rate hikes.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives are promising to put millions toward recruiting health-care workers if they are re-elected on Oct. 3.

TORONTO — Monday marked the start of strike votes for Ontario's public elementary school teachers, with their union and others frustrated with the slow pace of more than a year of bargaining for a new contract.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in Canada edged down one per cent in August compared with July.