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Dependent on social media's marketing power, small businesses worry over iOS changes

Dependent on social media's marketing power, small businesses worry over iOS changes

TORONTO — Like many small business owners, Siuleen Leibl relies on marketing through apps like Facebook and Instagram to reach more customers.
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Oshawa assembly plant restart ahead of schedule, GM Canada says

Oshawa assembly plant restart ahead of schedule, GM Canada says

OSHAWA, Ont. — General Motors Canada says it will restart production at its assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., ahead of schedule, after a healthy demand for trucks and a shift to electric vehicles saved the location from a planned closure.
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Plan to restart idled Northern Pulp mill in Nova Scotia to be redrafted: company

Plan to restart idled Northern Pulp mill in Nova Scotia to be redrafted: company

HALIFAX — The owners of an idled pulp mill in northern Nova Scotia say their plans for a new effluent treatment facility have been withdrawn from the province's environmental assessment process.
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Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not indefinitely

Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not indefinitely

Former President Donald Trump won’t return to Facebook — at least not yet. Four months after Facebook suspended Trump's accounts, having concluded that he incited violence leading to the deadly Jan.
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Barrick Gold expects growing exposure to copper as price escalation boosts Q1 profits

Barrick Gold expects growing exposure to copper as price escalation boosts Q1 profits

TORONTO — The CEO of Barrick Gold Corp. says copper stands to grow in importance for the world's second-biggest gold miner after 10-year-high prices for copper bolstered its first-quarter earnings.
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G-7 calls out China over rights at virus-shadowed meeting

G-7 calls out China over rights at virus-shadowed meeting

LONDON — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy industrialized nations on Wednesday accused China of human rights abuses and economic mischief, but offered little concrete action to deal with an increasingly forceful Beijing.
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Loblaw's winning streak extends but sales may flatten compared with pandemic's onset

Loblaw's winning streak extends but sales may flatten compared with pandemic's onset

Loblaw Companies Ltd.'s year-long pandemic winning streak marked by surging sales and profits appears poised to level off as the supermarket giant starts comparing results against the panic-buying gains recorded at the outset of the pandemic.
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Outdoor retailers struggle to stock tents, backpacks ahead of second COVID summer

Outdoor retailers struggle to stock tents, backpacks ahead of second COVID summer

David Keay’s outdoor store anticipated campers would shop early for tents this season, so he stocked up heavily in February to prepare as best it could. But the inventory didn’t even last the month.
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Sundial Growers to buy Inner Spirit for $131M, deal expected to close later this year

Sundial Growers to buy Inner Spirit for $131M, deal expected to close later this year

CALGARY — Sundial Growers Inc. says it will purchase cannabis company Inner Spirit Holdings Ltd. in a $131-million deal.
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Peloton recalls treadmills, halts sales, after a child dies

Peloton recalls treadmills, halts sales, after a child dies

NEW YORK — Peloton is recalling about 125,000 of its treadmills, less than a month after denying they were dangerous and saying it would not pull them from the market, even though they were linked to the death of a child and injuries of 29 others.
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