Skip to content

National Business

Docs about Vice Media, Ontario Place, Indigenous artifacts head to TIFF

Docs about Vice Media, Ontario Place, Indigenous artifacts head to TIFF

TORONTO — Documentaries about the rise and fall of Vice Media and efforts to return cultural artifacts to Indigenous nations are among the projects heading to the Toronto International Film Festival.
MDA Space reports Q2 profit and revenue up from year ago, raises revenue guidance

MDA Space reports Q2 profit and revenue up from year ago, raises revenue guidance

BRAMPTON, Ont. — MDA Space Ltd. reported $11.0 million in net income for its latest quarter compared with $9.9 million in the same quarter last year.
5 people killed in a helicopter crash in the mountains northwest of Nepal's capital

5 people killed in a helicopter crash in the mountains northwest of Nepal's capital

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — All five people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed Wednesday in the mountains just northwest of Nepal’s capital, authorities said.
Utility worker injured in shooting in rural area east of Calgary, another person dead

Utility worker injured in shooting in rural area east of Calgary, another person dead

ROCKY VIEW, Alta. — Mounties say the rural roadside shooting that left one worker wounded and a second person dead was not targeted. RCMP Staff Sgt.
Blair announces CFB Esquimalt military housing project, 480 single-occupancy rooms

Blair announces CFB Esquimalt military housing project, 480 single-occupancy rooms

ESQUIMALT, B.C. — National Defence Minister Bill Blair says British Columbia's CFB Esquimalt will be the site of a new 480-room military housing project. The minister was at the Victoria-area naval base to announce a $10.
Rinse and repeat: Calgarians back to water restrictions as new pipe problems found

Rinse and repeat: Calgarians back to water restrictions as new pipe problems found

CALGARY — Residents in Calgary and surrounding communities fresh off having to conserve water for weeks due to a water main break are soon going to have to do it all over again.
Paris Olympics puts dent in Air Canada sales as some travellers avoid France

Paris Olympics puts dent in Air Canada sales as some travellers avoid France

MONTREAL — Air Canada may be the official carrier of Team Canada, but that didn't stop the Paris Olympics from hobbling its summer sales.
B.C. provides $20M to expand travel, accommodation funding for cancer patients

B.C. provides $20M to expand travel, accommodation funding for cancer patients

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is providing $20 million over two years to support travel and lodging for cancer patients in the province.
Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands

Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands

OTTAWA — More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that.
Nutrien reports lower second-quarter earnings, announces CFO transition

Nutrien reports lower second-quarter earnings, announces CFO transition

SASKATOON, Sask. — Nutrien Ltd. says it earned US$392 million in its second quarter, down from US$448 million a year earlier. The Saskatoon-based company says sales came in at US$10.2 billion, down from US$11.