National Business

TORONTO — A new report shows Canada's downtown office vacancy rate marked its first, if slight, improvement since the start of the pandemic.

TORONTO — Strength in the energy and telecommunication sectors helped Canada's main stock index rise in late-morning trading, while U.S. markets were mixed.

WASHINGTON — Markets tumbled today amid confusion over how U.S. President Donald Trump intends to pursue his global tariff agenda this week — and how it will hit Canada.

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised Monday to get the federal government back into the business of home building, while Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives pitched a national energy corridor to fast-track approval of key infrastructure.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” is fast approaching, and stock markets around the world are tumbling in advance of it. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% early Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of people across Ontario were still without power on the third day of a spring storm, after freezing rain coated swaths of the province with thick layers of ice.

MONTREAL — CGI Inc. says it has signed an exclusivity agreement to acquire Apside, a digital and engineering services firm based in France.

MONTREAL — CGI Inc. says it has signed an exclusivity agreement to acquire Apside, a digital and engineering services firm based in France.

PARIS (AP) — France’s antitrust watchdog fined Apple 150 million euros ($162 million) on Monday over a privacy feature protecting users from apps snooping on them because its introduction resulted in abuse of competition law.

PARIS (AP) — France’s antitrust watchdog fined Apple 150 million euros ($162 million) on Monday over a privacy feature protecting users from apps snooping on them because its introduction resulted in abuse of competition law.