National Business

TORONTO — A group of major U.S. media companies and the owner of the Toronto Star are suing artificial intelligence firm Cohere over copyright infringement.

OTTAWA — Rival Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland issued duelling policy pledges on Thursday, with one candidate vowing to speeding up home building and the other promising to bring doctors back to Canada.

CALGARY — Alberta's energy watchdog has chosen a former oil and gas company CEO as its new boss.

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. says it has sold its digital rentals business to a subsidiary of CosmoBlue Media for "nominal proceeds."

VANCOUVER — Real estate sales across British Columbia were up in January compared with the year before, but average prices went down slightly.

Elon Musk says he will abandon his $97.4 billion offer to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI if the ChatGPT maker drops its plan to convert into a for-profit company.

CALGARY — WestJet announced a multi-billion-dollar, long-term commercial agreement with German aircraft services firm Lufthansa Technik to build a new engine repair station in Calgary.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government is once again trying to off-load its ski resort.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative lawyer Brooke Rollins was confirmed Thursday as secretary of agriculture, placing a close ally of President Donald Trump into a key Cabinet position at a time when mass deportation plans could lead to farm labor shortag

TORONTO — Sun Life Financial Inc. says it earned $237 million in its fourth quarter.