National Business

HALIFAX — The 2021-22 fiscal year saw Nova Scotia record a “surprise” $350.9-million surplus after forecasting a deficit of $584.9 million in the March 2021 budget, Finance Minister Allan MacMaster said Friday.

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. says its box office revenue amounted to $36 million in August, a total representing 64 per cent of the figure for August 2019 before the pandemic pummeled the movie theatre industry.

TORONTO — Corus Entertainment Inc. says it currently expects "meaningful" year-over-year softness in television advertising revenue.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 5.4 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 5.4 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 10.5 per cent (10.2) _ Prince Edward Island 7.

OTTAWA — A quick look at Canada's August employment (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 5.4 per cent (4.9) Employment rate: 61.3 per cent (61.6) Participation rate: 64.8 per cent (64.

OTTAWA — Canadians are used to seeing Queen Elizabeth II on their money, but that could change following the death of the longest-serving British monarch and Canadian head of state.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,413.00, up 171.56 points.) Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Up 30 cents, or 0.75 per cent, to $40.27 on 13 million shares.

LONDON (AP) — New British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced Thursday that her Conservative government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has left residents across the United Kingdom facing a

WASHINGTON — The Line 5 pipeline has won a stay of execution in Wisconsin, where a federal judge sided with an Indigenous group's complaint but stopped short of ordering the controversial cross-border energy link shut down entirely.