National Business

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is looking to tighten the rules around the sale of machetes, swords and other long-bladed weapons.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks set records Wednesday after the latest wild swerves for Chinese stocks left few ripples in markets worldwide.

North American stock markets gained ground on Wednesday thanks to continued optimism about the strength of the U.S. economy.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The social media platform X began returning to Brazil on Wednesday, after remaining inaccessible for more than a month due to a clash between its owner, Elon Musk, and a justice on the country’s highest court.

Global hitmaker Bryan Adams is adding his voice to opposition over new federal regulations on streaming.

TORONTO — Siskinds LLP says a $70.25 million class-action settlement has been reached with TD Asset Management over commissions paid to discount brokers.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Ratan Tata, a former chairman of India’s oldest conglomerate Tata Sons, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night. He was 86.

TORONTO — Ontario launched a review of the province's 37 non-Indigenous children's aid societies Wednesday after Premier Doug Ford suggested they are being financially mismanaged, but the unions representing CAS workers say it is a mere "smokescreen.

TORONTO — The research that won Geoffrey Hinton a Nobel Prize for physics was the product of plenty of work carried out before artificial intelligence was the buzzword it is today.

TORONTO — A new report says growth in average asking rents across Canada last month slowed to the lowest rate since October 2021, at 2.1 per cent year-over-year.