National Business

TORONTO — Finalists for the National Newspaper Awards include four nominations for the national news agency The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne. Here's look at the categories and contenders:

TORONTO — The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne is nominated for four National Newspaper Awards, including one for a photo of people giving former prime minister Justin Trudeau the finger while posing for a selfie.

TORONTO — A new report suggests a vast majority of Black Canadians feel their employer has made progress in creating a more equitable workplace, but more than three-quarters said they still encounter varying degrees of racism at work.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government says Crown corporations are supporting the province's steelworkers by buying local steel.

CALGARY — Parkland Corp. has named two new independent directors as an activist investor calls for an overhaul of its board.

NEW YORK (AP) — Google will buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion to boost the tech giant’s in-house cloud computing amid burgeoning artificial intelligence growth.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz , won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic allia

When people decide to start cycling to work, they sometimes go overboard. They think they need to buy excessive gear, specific clothes, the perfect bike — they commit to five days a week, no matter what.

OTTAWA — Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.6 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says.

OTTAWA — Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.6 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets):