CALGARY - Pot shop owner SNDL Inc. says it will acquire cannabis manufacturer the Valens Company Inc. and combine the businesses in an all-stock transaction it valued at $138 million.
TORONTO - Canadian-American actor Brendan Fraser will receive an award for his performance in the upcoming film "The Whale" at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
OTTAWA - Moderna says the federal government has purchased a total of 12 million doses of the company's bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant.
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers and cross-border business advocates in the United States want Justin Trudeau's Liberal government to go back to the future in order to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Canada.
OTTAWA - Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has cut funding to an anti-racism project over "reprehensible and vile" tweets by a senior consultant involved in the strategy.