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Oak Bay eatery Paprika changing its name, menu and hours

A coalition of human rights groups have lost their last hope of suing a mining company on behalf of the victims of a massacre in Congo.

National Bank is laying off about 300 employees, including 10 vice-presidents, in a restructuring move to reduce its costs. The Montreal-based bank says the job cuts will stretch across all areas of its operations.

Maple Leaf Foods says it's buying Manitoba hog production company Puratone Corporation for $42 million. The Toronto-based food producer said Thursday the deal includes livestock, facilities and interests in some joint ventures.

Alberta plans to broaden a safety review of its vast energy-pipeline network to include input from the public.

British Columbia's Opposition New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix denies his party is upstaging the Liberal government in connection to a tourism-related announcement.

The Toronto stock market registered a solid advance Thursday as resource sectors benefited from signs of a recovering Chinese manufacturing sector. But the market was held back by earnings disappointments in the telecom and mining sectors.

British judges say Apple needs to apologize once more for falsely claiming that South Korea's Samsung copied its iPad, the latest embarrassing episode in the tech rivals' world-spanning patent battle.

Crescent Poin Energy Corp. announced Thursday an $861-million deal to acquire privately held oil and gas producer Ute Energy Upstream Holdings LLC. Ute is active in the Uinta Basin light oil resource play in northeast Utah.

Shares of Research In Motion climbed more than 10 per cent today in heavy volume trading. The jump comes a day after the BlackBerry maker announced a crucial step towards releasing its new devices. The Waterloo, Ont.