National Business

CALGARY — Alberta's two big-city mayors say a separation referendum would be "devastating" to their local economies and is a needless distraction during a period in which the country should be focused on unity.

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission, the state’s attorney general announced Friday.

VANCOUVER — The Supreme Court in British Columbia has ordered that the Mount Polley mine limit the tailings it can deposit into its storage facility while a First Nation challenges an addition to the dam in court.

CALGARY — An Alberta court has denied the appeal of a Calgary man convicted three years ago of a Ponzi scheme that saw his clients bilked out of millions of dollars.

MONTREAL — Air Canada lowered its financial forecast for the year as travellers continue to shy away from trips to the United States amid cross-border tensions, pushing the country's largest airline to hunt for demand elsewhere.

TORONTO — The trading week wound to a close with the Canadian market on an upbeat but cautious swing.

WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday downplayed the North American automobile industry's claim that U.S. President Donald Trump's new trade deal with the United Kingdom could make the sector less competitive.

TORONTO — A new court filing shows a process meant to find a new owner for Hudson's Bay and its assets has yielded 17 bids.

The chief executive of Telus Corp. says there's more the company can do to attract new customers without necessarily having to lower prices to match its competitors.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks closed mixed at the end of an unusually quiet week. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% Friday and wound up with a loss of 0.5% for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.