National Business

SASKATOON — Cameco Corp. missed earnings expectations as it lost $53 million in the second quarter despite a 35 per cent growth in revenues.

MONTREAL — CGI Inc. is reporting a softer fiscal third quarter with earnings dropping 16 per cent on lower revenues. The Montreal-based business and technology consulting firm says it earned $260.

WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in

OTTAWA — A new government report shows Canada's three biggest wireless carriers have lowered prices for a number of plans in Quebec since January but left them unchanged in all other provinces.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,121.32, down 40.01) Avcorp Industries Inc. (TSX:AVP). Industrials. Up 11 cents, or 366.67 per cent, to $0.14 on 23.03 million shares.

EDMONTON — Alberta municipalities that have been economically thrashed by the COVID-19 pandemic are receiving more than $1 billion in support from other levels of government.

TORONTO — Landlords need to be taken “out of the equation” of the government's small business rent relief plan as another month's rent comes due, says a lobby group.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's small- and medium-sized technology businesses are getting some financial help from the federal government.

TORONTO — A rival bidder for Torstar Corp. is seeking to appeal an Ontario judge's ruling that allows NordStar Capital LP to proceed with its $60-million purchase of the newspaper publishing company.

TORONTO — Major North American indexes dipped into the red Tuesday while gold continued its streak of record highs, inching closer to breaking the $2,000-an-ounce barrier.