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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ontario Superior Court has approved Corus Entertainment’s request to proceed with a previously announced recapitalization. The deal had originally gone to a shareholder vote in January but after narrowly falling short of full shareholder approval, Corus sought court approval to move ahead with its plan as it was permitted to do.“As we have said, we believe the proposed recapitalization transaction represents the best path for Corus and I’m very pleased with today’s decision,” John Gossling, Corus’ chief executive officer, said in a statement. Get weekly money news Get expert insights, Q&A…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY) today announced the appointment of Raejeanne Skillern to its Board of Directors, effective March 24, 2026. Ms. Skillern is a highly regarded technology executive with over 30 years of leadership experience spanning hyperscale cloud, data center infrastructure, communications and artificial intelligence. She has a proven track record of leading multi-billion-dollar business units at global organizations including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel and Flex. “We are pleased to welcome Raejeanne to the Dycom Board of Directors,” said Richard K. Sykes, Dycom’s Independent Chairman of the Board.…

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Highlights: Completed construction at the high-grade Bayan Khundii Gold Mine in Q3 2025Produced first gold in September 2025 and sold 7,434 ounces gold at average price of US$4,187, for US$31M in gross project revenues including silver by-product in 2025Announced updated independent mineral resource estimate for Zuun Mod molybdenum-copper porphyry project and initiation of preliminary economic assessmentEntered option agreement to acquire up to 80% of the Tereg Uul Copper-Gold ProjectConducted exploration programs at Bayan Khundii (Dark Horse), Zuun Mod molybdenum, Khuvyn Khar copper and Tereg Uul Erdene Resource Development Corp. (TSX:ERD; MSE:ERDN;…

LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Epirus, General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) and Kodiak AI (Kodiak) today unveiled Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV), a mobile, fully autonomous vehicle for counter-UAS, critical point defense and homeland security missions. Leonidas AGV features Epirus’ Leonidas high-power microwave platform integrated onto a commercial-grade truck platform equipped with Kodiak’s AI-powered autonomous driving system, the Kodiak Driver. General Dynamics Land Systems served as lead system integrator. Leonidas AGV delivers a mobile counter-UAS capability that can be operated without human intervention or teleoperated to extend the counter-UAS line of defense across fixed-site and expeditionary mission sets. Designed for autonomous critical…

After decades of only licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm revealed the first chip it’s producing on its own, and the first customer. Dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, it’s another chip designed for inference, or running the cloud processing for AI tools like AI agents that can continue to spawn more and more tasks to run at once. The first company in line to use it is Meta, which has reportedly struggled to launch its own AI chips.Meta says it’s both the lead partner and co-developer, and plans to work on “multiple generations” of the datacenter…

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) today announced that Mary Dillon has been elected to the company’s board of directors. Dillon will serve on the board’s Compensation Committee and Corporate Governance and Public Responsibility Committee. Dillon, 64, brings more than four decades of consumer, marketing and operational experience across major global brands. She served as President and CEO of Foot Locker, Inc. from 2022 to 2025, CEO of Ulta Beauty, Inc. from 2013 to 2021, and President and CEO of U.S. Cellular from 2010 to 2013. “We are very pleased to…

A new tactic being deployed by RCMP officers in the Halifax area is creating some debate. Police said they’ve been piloting a new traffic enforcement strategy, in which officers disguise themselves as panhandlers at intersections in order to catch distracted drivers.According to RCMP, the operation on March 18 at an intersection in Lower Sackville resulted in 46 tickets issued that day.“We had a traffic spotter. He was walking amongst the traffic. He was posing as a panhandler with a sign,” said Cpl. Bobby Bambury with the RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment Traffic Unit.“And he was walking among the traffic, seeing into…

A new poll finds there is growing support for a proposal to lower an Old Age Security (OAS) threshold for some Canadians in order to help reduce the federal government’s deficit. Seventy-three per cent of Canadians polled this month said they support such a move, which would effectively trim back Old Age Security from higher income tiers, according to Generation Squeeze’s research poll.Although nearly three quarters of respondents said they supported this proposal, that was on the condition that the savings are used to eliminate seniors’ poverty and reduce living costs for younger generations, the polling found.Old Age Security is one…

PLANO, Texas and BANGALORE, India, March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PROLIM, a global digital transformation, industrial AI, and cloud consulting company, today announced the official rebranding of Kasmo Digital to PROLIM following its recent acquisition. The integration strengthens PROLIM’s global presence across North America, India, Europe, and APAC while expanding its capabilities in Salesforce consulting, Snowflake data platforms, CRM solutions, and enterprise cloud transformation. This strategic move enhances PROLIM’s ability to deliver end-to-end digital transformation services for Fortune 1000 companies across key industries, including manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, high-tech, and energy. By unifying Kasmo Digital under the PROLIM brand, the…

A newly released survey by H&R Block Canada suggests that financial circumstances can be part of why Canadians stay in relationships. The data found that 73 per cent of Canadians believe that “many people stay together in marriage or in common law relationships for financial reasons.”In addition, 80 per cent of Canadians say life is more affordable in a relationship versus being single.Nearly one in four (23 per cent) of surveyed Canadians also said they like the idea of a “five-year renewable relationship contract” instead of getting married.The survey states that four in 10 Canadians (40 per cent) say marriage…