National Business

TORONTO — George Weston Ltd. reported a third-quarter profit attributable to common shareholders of $124 million, down from $303 million in the same quarter last year. The company, which owns large interests in Loblaw Companies Ltd.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Holmes, the one-time medical entrepreneur now charged with building a fraudulent company based on promises of a revolutionary technology, returned to the witness stand Monday.

MONTREAL — Air Canada has agreed to a US$4.5-million settlement of charges it failed to promptly refund customers after cancelling flights amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S.

Lush Cosmetics will deactivate its social media accounts later this week in a bid to get tech companies to make online platforms safer. The U.K.

Rogers Communications Inc. told regulators Monday that its proposed $26-billion takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,420.77, down 134.26 points.) Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Financials. Unchanged at $24.43 on 10.7 million shares.

TORONTO — The renomination of the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman prompted bond yields to rise, which helped the financials sector but hampered technology as Canada's main stock index suffered its worst day in a month. U.S.

CALGARY — The company that owns the Trans Mountain pipeline says it remains optimistic the pipeline could be restarted by the end of the week. Trans Mountain Corp.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Following the recent discovery of a fungus growing on two potato farms in Prince Edward Island, the Canadian government said Monday it was suspending all shipments of fresh potatoes from the province to the United States.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday he is nominating Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, endorsing his stewardship of the economy through a brutal pandemic recession in which the Fed's ultra-low rate poli