Unpublished Newswire

The Toronto Raptors will try to claw back into their first-round NBA playoff series tonight when they host Game 3 at Scotiabank Arena, trailing 2-0 to Cleveland in the best-of-seven matchup.

OTTAWA — A free-market think tank is warning that high taxes and big government are snuffing out private sector entrepreneurship in Canada. “Entrepreneurship — the heartbeat of innovation, job creation and economic growth — is in sharp decline (and) has been declining for decades in Canada,” warns a new report from the Montreal Economic Institute. The report shows that the number of self-employed Canadians with paid employees peaked at about 867,000 in 2005. By 2025, that number had dropped to 716,000, a decline of 17 per cent, even as Canada’s population grew by roughly one-third...