National Business

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government tabled a $10.7-billion budget Tuesday that is heavily influenced by the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

MONTREAL — After being laid off from her job as a flight attendant for Air Transat in April, Jennifer Yurchuk, who has 29 years of experience on the job, found work as a courier for FedEx while living off of her savings until her airline calls her ba

SALT LAKE CITY — Conservative lawmakers in Utah have fired another salvo in their longtime campaign against online porn with a new requirement that all cellphones and tablets sold in the state automatically block pornography in a plan that critics ca

Empire Company Ltd. has agreed to buy a majority stake in supermarket chain Longo's and its Grocery Gateway e-commerce business in a deal that further consolidates Canada's grocery retail landscape.

NEW YORK — A U.S. advisory firm is hoping that Canadian clothing retailer Le Chateau will rise from the ashes of insolvency.

OTTAWA — The federal banking regulator is rolling back temporary changes it put in place last year to help the country's banks weather the pandemic.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, is considering making electric vehicles at its highly anticipated Wisconsin plant that has been scaled back since its announcement in 2017, the company's chairma

NEW YORK — Americans spent less last month, partly due to bad weather in parts of the country that kept shoppers away from stores. Retail sales fell a seasonally adjusted 3% in February from the month before, the U.S.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Digit marches on two legs across the floor of the University of Michigan’s Ford Motor Co. Robotics Building, while Mini-Cheetah — staccato-like — does the same on four and the yellow-legged Cassie steps deliberately side-to-side.

HELSINKI — Wireless network maker Nokia says it is planning to cut up to 10,000 jobs, or over 10% of its staff, to reduce costs as it invests in research and development and tries to cement its role as a key supplier of 5G technology.