National Business

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising municipal leaders federal backing and resources to- ward efforts to address the high cost of housing that he says is creating a crisis for young and middle-class families. The cost of housing has risen across the country driven by a mix of […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Through the first year of the pandemic, the country’s independent booksellers have – so far – avoided disaster. On Thursday, the American Booksellers Association told The Associated Press that membership increased from 1,635 to 1,701 since May 2020, the additions a combination of brand-new stores and […]

BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union and U.S. top trade officials on Thursday further cemented recent advances on some key differences that have soured trans-Atlantic relations over the past few years. EU trade ministers used a virtual meeting with U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai to highlight the breakthroughs in the longstanding […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Pink is grappling with the fact that her 9-year-old daughter, Willow, with husband Carey Hart, is on the cusp of the tween years. “It’s still the salad days, she’s still my baby,” said Pink in an interview over Zoom. “But she’s starting to ask me questions […]

TORONTO – Celine Dion says after being “locked up” during the COVID-19 pandemic this songbird is ready to fly. The Quebecois vocal powerhouse says she spent a large part of the past year and a half with her kids having “old- fashioned family fun” playing soccer and swimming in the […]

Greyhound Canada is permanently cutting all bus routes across the country, shutting down the intercity bus carrier’s operations in Canada after nearly a century of service. The motor coach company said its remaining routes in Ontario and Quebec will cease permanently on Thursday. Its American affiliate, Greyhound Lines, Inc., will […]

DETROIT – The U.S. government’s auto safety agency is investigating multiple complaints about steering failures that could affect more than 1.1 million Honda Accord sedans. In documents posted Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it received 31 complaints about the problem, and Honda has 77 more. Owners complained […]

Canada’s farmland market remained strong and stable during a year marked by economic turbulence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Farmland Values Report. The average value of Canadian farmland increased by 5.4 per cent in 2020, slightly more than the 5.2 per cent […]

LONDON – The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric. Christie’s said Tuesday it is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as […]

MONTREAL – Travel company Transat AT Inc. says it has reached a deal with Ottawa to borrow up to $700 million. The money will come through the federal government’s Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility, the same program used to help Air Canada. “The agreement reached with the government of Canada […]

VANCOUVER – Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou are expected to ask a B.C. Supreme Court judge today to delay the final leg of hearings in her extradition case. The court said in a statement last week that the Huawei executive’s application for an adjournment would be heard this morning. The hearings […]