Press Digest: Canada - March 9

Metro

09/03/2023 13:08

March 9 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories
from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified
these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL
    Airex Energy has raised $38-million in a funding round that
will accelerate the Quebec company's plans to expand its
production of low-carbon industrial and agricultural products
made from biomass.
    
    Loblaw Cos Ltd  L.TO  president Galen Weston, Empire Co
 EMPa.TO  chief executive officer Michael Medline and Metro Inc
 MRU.TO  CEO Eric La Flèche defended their companies before a
committee in Ottawa, saying that suggestions that grocery
companies were profiteering from inflation are wrong.
    
    Russia launched a "massive" overnight strike on Ukraine
early on Thursday, hitting critical infrastructure around the
country with cruise missiles and explosive drones in the largest
such attack for several weeks.

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