National Business

TORONTO — Toronto’s Matt Johnson and Kazik Radwanski are often hailed as key figures in the new wave of Canadian cinema but they worry the country's filmmaking ecosystem isn't fostering enough young, risk-taking directors.

Hockey star Hilary Knight wouldn’t expect anything less.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index gained almost 250 points Monday amid a broad rally led by financial, industrial and technology stocks, while U.S. markets also climbed higher, snapping out of last week's losing streak.

HALIFAX — A loophole in Nova Scotia's rental housing rules is making the provincial government’s proposed rent cap extension essentially useless, housing advocates and opposition parties say.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, ending a four-day losing streak. The S&P 500 added 1.2% Monday. The benchmark index is coming off its worst week in nearly a year and a half.

INGERSOLL, Ont. — Unifor says bargaining has begun with General Motors for workers at the automaker's CAMI assembly plant and battery facility in Ingersoll, Ont.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Power is being fined for the third time in four years for failing to meet annual performance targets for the reliability of its energy grid.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — One month after a judge declared Google's search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.

MONTREAL — Air Canada is preparing for a potential shutdown of most operations next week as it says contract talks with its pilots' union remain far apart.

CALGARY — Calgary's mayor says every skipped toilet flush over the next two weeks will matter as repairs on a troubled water main near the finish line and a treatment plant picking up the slack works full-tilt.