National Business

McDonald’s said Wednesday that consumers should feel confident ordering from its restaurants despite a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to its Quarter Pounders.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is looking to add more liquor outlets inside food and grocery stores.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in September to the weakest annual pace in nearly 14 years even as mortgage rates eased and the supply of properties on the market continued to climb.

MONTREAL — Air Canada and airBaltic say they have signed a codeshare agreement that will help make it easier to fly between Canada and the Baltic states.

TORONTO — A new report shows the patchwork of progress at Canada's big life insurers in their efforts to address climate change, and reduce their more than $90 billion in fossil fuel investments.

An oil salvage operation is underway on the fragile wreckage of a U.S.

CALGARY — Investments in oil and gas production are important and must continue in tandem with increased investment in renewable and clean technologies, the deputy head of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states, including one person who died and 10 who were hospitalized, federal health officials said Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. felt the heat of wildfires and labour disputes last quarter, as the company looks to rebound from the resulting cargo backlogs and lost business.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is extending, by more than a year, a temporary moratorium on some new cannabis outlets.