National Business

TORONTO — An industry coalition is calling on Ottawa to broaden its trusted traveller pilot program and roll it out across the country.

TORONTO — DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. says light vehicle sales in Canada were up 5.1 per cent in Februrary from a year earlier. The automotive industry research firm estimates 103,771 new light vehicles were sold in the month.

VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says February's home sales were up 76.9 per cent from January, but down 47.2 per cent from the year before.

EDMONTON — CWB Financial Group reported its first-quarter profit rose compared with a year ago, helped by a reversal of a previously recognized impaired loan writeoff.

TORONTO — You've just made it into the office, when your boss brings you into a meeting room, where you find someone from human resources about to deliver you bad news: your company is carrying out layoffs and you're on the list.

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell for third straight week.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation eased only slightly in the 20 countries that use the euro currency as the pain from higher costs for food and fuel persists and gives the European Central Bank no reason to slow interest rate increases aimed at get

MONTREAL — An American company that signed a deal with the federal government to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Montreal has warned investors it could go out of business within the year.

CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. is hoping to see more incentives for carbon capture and storage announced in the upcoming federal budget, the CEO of the energy infrastructure giant said Wednesday.

TikTok said Wednesday that every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks.