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BANFF, Alta. — It'll be one last hurrah for a pedestrian zone along the main downtown drag of Banff, Alta., this long weekend.

EAST GARAFRAXA, Ontario (AP) — Julie Thurgood-Burnett had no idea that her COVID-19 lockdown whim of starting a lavender patch on her husband's family farm outside Toronto would turn into a small business.

NEW YORK (AP) — Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge on Tuesday again rejected a request to free an ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused in the 1996 killing of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur, saying she suspects a cover-up related to the sources of the funds for his bo

TORONTO — The Bank of Nova Scotia saw third-quarter profits fall compared with a year ago as it boosted its provisions for bad loans, even as the bank says it's seeing some levelling out of the financial stress on Canadian consumers.

American consumers felt more confident in August as their outlook for the future improved. The Conference Board, a business research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 103.3 in August from 101.9 in July.

TORONTO — Former "Jeopardy" champion Mattea Roach will helm CBC's new literary radio show. Roach has been tapped to host "Bookends," which will replace "Writers & Company" as the broadcaster's Sunday books programming.

Nonfiction 1. Good Energy by Casey Means, MD, and Calley Means, narrated by Casey Means, MD (Penguin Audio) 2. Imminent by Luis Elizondo, narrated by the author and Christopher Mellon (HarperAudio) 3.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Inside Out 2 2. The Twisters 3. Longlegs 4. Despicable Me 4 5. The Fall Guy (2024) 6. A Quiet Place: Day One 7. Oddity 8. Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 9. Civil War 10.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books) 2. This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter (William Morrow) 3. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books) 4. Tom Clancy Shadow State by M.P.