National Business

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks around the world racked up more losses Friday, as even a gangbusters report on the U.S. jobs market can't pull Wall Street’s focus off its worries about the war in Ukraine. The S&P 500 fell 0.

Shopify Inc. says it has taken down the vast majority of content that five textbook publishers say is pirated and infringes on their trademarks.

OTTAWA — The Public Policy Forum says "urgent" action is needed from the Canadian government to level the playing field between news media and tech giants such as Meta and Google amid broad revenue declines in the media industry.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a buoyant sign for the U.S. economy, businesses stepped up their hiring last month as omicron faded and more Americans ventured out to spend at restaurants, shops and hotels despite surging inflation.

CALGARY — Floods in B.C. and the temporary shutdown of the Trans Mountain pipeline in the fourth quarter of 2021 cost Parkland Corp. approximately $35 million.

CALGARY — The chief executive of MEG Energy Corp. sees "tremendous demand" for Alberta oil due to the war in Ukraine and a European energy crisis.

TORONTO — Venture capital experts say higher interest rates could trim sky-high valuations Canadian startups have grown accustomed to over the last couple of years, but not right away.

TORONTO — A global tech conference being held this summer in Toronto is barring businesses, government officials and media with ties to the Russian government from participating in this year's event.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Ameela Aqiatusuk lives in a town that has never had what many Canadians take for granted: a bank. “It's really frustrating.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Disney has done the frozen Nordic princess, the Chinese warrior princess and many others in between. But a Korean princess? Not so much. Harvard University student Julia Riew has set out to fix that.