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TOLEDO, Ohio — General Motors has agreed to loan $40 million to a newly formed company that wants to make electric pickup trucks at a massive Ohio assembly plant GM shut down earlier this year.

MINNEAPOLIS — An updated environmental review released by a state agency Monday found no serious threat to Lake Superior if crude oil ever leaked from a new pipeline to replace Enbridge Energy's aging Line 3 across northern Minnesota.

VANCOUVER — Lululemon Athletica Inc. says its chief operating officer is leaving the company shortly after the new year begins.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,950.85, down 46.12 points.) Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Health care. Up 25 cents, or 7.79 per cent, to $3.46 on 10.

TORONTO — North American stock markets opened the week a little lower as investors digested Friday's large gains induced by a strong U.S. jobs report.

Canopy Growth Corp.'s appointment of a veteran Constellation Brands executive as its new chief executive gave the cannabis producer's shares a lift on Monday. Canopy shares gained 14 per cent or $3.45 to $28.

TORONTO — There is a "significant risk" that the Progressive Conservative government's spending plan will fall $5 billion short of what's needed for health and education in the coming years, Ontario's budget watchdog said Monday.

MONTREAL — A proposal by a Montreal municipal committee to drastically cut down on mail flyers is "insensitive, incoherent and impractical," according to the CEO of Transcontinental Inc.

BOSTON — In a story December 5, 2019, about Tufts University's decision to cut ties with the Sackler family, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by Tufts, erroneously reported that Richard Sackler is a current board member of Purdue

Paul Volcker, who as Federal Reserve chairman in the early 1980s elevated interest rates to historic highs and triggered a recession as the price of quashing double-digit inflation, has died, according to his office. He was 92.