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MONTREAL — Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal have approved a strike mandate after more than a year of contract negotiations. Longshore workers voted 97.

MONTREAL — National Bank of Canada has cleared a key regulatory hurdle in its proposed acquisition of Canadian Western Bank. The Montreal-based bank said Thursday it has received the Competition Bureau's clearance for the deal.

MONTREAL — Visual effects and animation companies are uniting to strike a better deal with the Quebec government after it implemented tax changes that some firms say will cost them nearly two-thirds of their revenues next year.

TOKYO — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Japan Open in the first round. Auger-Aliassime fell 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (5) to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in a three-hour-12-minute match at Ariake Tennis Park on Thursday.

L'ÎLE-BIZARD—SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE — The Presidents Cup begins on Thursday at Royal Montreal Golf Club. The best-on-best match-play tournament sees 12 American golfers take on 12 players from around the world, excluding Europe.

OTTAWA — Francis Fox, a former senator and cabinet minister in Pierre Elliott Trudeau's government, has died at 84.

MONTREAL — Montreal's administration announced on Wednesday it is going to immediately modify a borough's noise bylaw to protect entertainment venues and bars from noise complaints, after a court this week ordered a historic music hall in the city's

MONTREAL (AP) — Russell Henley, who won a Nationwide Tour event while still at Georgia and won the Sony Open in his first start as a PGA Tour member, is finally playing in his first U.S. team competition.

OTTAWA — The minority Liberal government survived a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday, but if the prime minister wants to avoid an election before Christmas the Bloc Québécois said he will have to meet its demands by the end of

L'ÎLE-BIZARD–SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE, Que. — It has been 26 long years since the International team last won the Presidents Cup, but, according to a pair of golf experts, there is a road map to ending that drought at Royal Montreal Golf Club this week.