National Business

MONTREAL — After years fighting against the opening of a mining project with ties to the Pentagon, Louis Saint-Hilaire is breathing a sigh of relief.

CALGARY — Canada's oilsands industry remains under pressure to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint, even as companies have clamped down on public communications in the wake of new anti-greenwashing legislation.

NEW YORK (AP) — The company behind Tupperware, the plastic kitchenware that revolutionized food storage after World War II and became inextricably linked to the parties where women seeking a measure of financial independence and fun in midcentury Ame

MONTREAL — Low entry-level pay in the tentative deal between Air Canada and its pilots could be a stumbling block ahead of a union vote on the agreement, some aviators and experts say.

TORONTO — Michelin has awarded a star to four new restaurants in its Toronto guide — but three of them aren't in the city at all.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic shift after more than two years of high rates that helped tame inflation but also made borrowing painfully expensive for A

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government’s $8.6-billion plan to fast-track building new schools will include a pilot project to incentivize private ones.

VANCOUVER — Supervised injection sites are saving the lives of drug users everyday, but the same support is not being offered to people who inhale illicit drugs, the head of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says.

TORONTO — Sleep Country Holdings Inc. shareholders have voted in favour of selling the business to Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. for $1.7 billion.

MONTREAL — Scotiabank says it's appointed Jean-François Courville to a new role as president of the bank's Quebec operations.