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CALGARY — The chief executive at Trans Mountain Corp. says there should be ample pipeline space to get Canadian crude oil to market until at least 2030 without the need for a whole new project being built from scratch.

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Lottery Corp.

TORONTO — Hudbay Minerals Inc. says it's resuming its Snow Lake mining operations after it halted work in July due to wildfires in northwestern Manitoba.

TORONTO — Strength in the financials sector helped Canada's main stock index finish higher on Wednesday as the big banks continue to report results, while U.S. stock markets also rose.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets rose at a slower pace than analysts anticipated during the company’s latest quarter, a letdown likely to stoke worries that the AI craze has been fool’s gold.

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.

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%.

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.