National Business

TORONTO — Max Rangel can't help but crack a smile when he hears a sing-songy "hello" emanate from an overall-and-pink T-shirt clad doll sitting on a table covered in toys in his Toronto office.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:

TORONTO — The majority of Canada's big banks are heading into fourth-quarter earnings this week riding high as fears around mortgage defaults and a recession ease.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump called his meeting with Justin Trudeau productive and said the prime minister made a commitment to work with the United States to end the drug crisis amid the threat of stiff tariffs.

FREDERICTON — Roughly 3,500 people in New Brunswick are still without power after wet, heavy snowfall caused trees to come into contact with power lines early Friday morning.

MONTREAL — For the last 40 years the four-member Ly family has lived in a Montreal duplex, but after the holidays they will have to find a new home because the city's public transit agency is expropriating the property to build a subway ventilation s

OTTAWA — The union representing Canada Post workers has filed an unfair labour practice complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board over the layoffs of striking employees.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate Friday night, a source confirmed to The Canadian Press.

OTTAWA — A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system, saying the company breaches copyright by "scraping large swaths of content" from media websites.

TORONTO — Questrade Financial Group Inc. says it has laid off an undisclosed number of employees to better fit its business strategy.