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For the first time in nearly 50 years, the 400-kilometre Tibbitt-to-Contwoyto winter road that connects the Far North to the rest of Canada will not be built — and climate change is not to blame.

Ottawa needs to hire a small team of experts to write a new tax code with the “goal of becoming the simplest, most efficient and most competitive tax jurisdiction of all developed countries,” Laurent Ferreira, chief executive of National Bank of Canada, said at the Canadian Club of Toronto on Wednesday.
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Canada’s food banks hit a record 2.35 million monthly visits this year, as many Canadians were forced to choose between food and other basic needs, said Food Banks Canada in a new report.

Ottawa may spend billions of dollars on defence-related projects and wants a major share of it to go to Canadians, but the problem is that a lot of local companies aren’t ready and need more support, says Bank of Montreal’s chief executive Darryl White.

Bank of Nova Scotia says it has hired Jasmine de Gaia from Wells Fargo & Co. as senior vice-president and chief artificial intelligence officer.
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