National Business

TORONTO — Global technology conference Collision has cancelled plans to host its annual event in Toronto next year and instead will host the gathering online again.

WASHINGTON — The U.S.

TORONTO — Nancy Tower knows just how important help from the highest echelons of corporate Canada can be for someone trying to break into the old boys' club. She was a promising worker when she started at Halifax-based energy company Emera Inc.

VANCOUVER — Equinox Gold Corp. has signed a friendly agreement to acquire Premier Gold Mines Ltd. which will spin out its Nevada assets in a new U.S.-focused gold miner to be called i-80 Gold Corp.

OTTAWA — Canada's national annual inflation rate was 1.0 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says.

OTTAWA — Canada's national annual inflation rate was 1.0 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador: 0.8 per cent (0.6) — Prince Edward Island: -0.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says wholesales sales rose 1.0 per cent in October to $66.7 billion, marking the sixth consecutive increase for the sector. Economists had expected an increase of 0.

TORONTO — Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has acquired the Trafford Centre in Britain after the shopping mall's owner failed to find a buyer.

Aurora Cannabis says it is laying off 214 workers and its chief science officer is retiring, the latest of a series of cuts to hit the Edmonton-based cannabis company.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden nominated his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation on Tuesday and intends to choose former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as his energy secretary.