National Business

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As a standoff between crab fishers and processors enters its third week in Newfoundland and Labrador, all eyes are on Maritime fishers who have begun their annual harvest.

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street had its biggest drop in a month as investors worried about company profits and the state of the economy. The S&P 500 fell 1.6% Tuesday.

VANCOUVER — One of the most recognizable legacy structures from British Columbia's Expo 86 World's Fair will soon undergo repairs on its leaky roof as part of a $50-million tourism infrastructure fund.

MONTREAL — Quebec's electric utility says hundreds of thousands of customers were temporarily without power Tuesday due to a problem at the Churchill Falls generating station in Labrador.

VANCOUVER — Vancity says Christine Bergeron is stepping down as president and chief executive of the credit union to take the top job at real estate company Concert Properties. The credit union says Bergeron will continue with Vancity until mid-July.

WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry's has gone from ice cream to cannabis with a social mission.

In 2013, Ti Zhang received news of their mother’s sudden passing. At the time, they were in their mid-20s and living in Paris with their one-year-old child and then-partner, while their mother was living in Vancouver.

KINGSEY FALLS, Que. — Cascades is restructuring its tissue business, changes that will affect 300 employees in the United States. The company says it will progressively close plants in Barnwell, S.C., and Scappoose, Ore.

TORONTO — Canada was plunging into the H1N1 crisis, when Anne Marie Aikins first encountered Twitter.

TORONTO — H&R Real Estate Investment Trust has reached a deal with an activist investor that had sought changes at the trust's board. Under the agreement, K2 Principal Fund LP and K2 & Associates Investment Management Inc.