National Business

The Toronto Region Board of Trade is calling on the Ontario government to introduce a vaccine passport system for non-essential business activity, as European nations like France begin to make vaccine passports a part of daily life.

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BOSTON (AP) — Actor Sacha Baron Cohen has sued a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary he says used an image of his character Borat on a billboard without his permission, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Boston.

HALIFAX — As international supply chains heal from the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, agriculture industry players say the pandemic has increased demand for locally grown food.

WINNIPEG — The Canada Life Assurance Co. has signed a deal to buy ClaimSecure Inc., a company that provides health and dental claim management services to Canadian employers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices for U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most in 13 years, evidence that a swift rebound in spending has run up against widespread supply shortages that have escalated the costs of many goods and services.

VANCOUVER — AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. says it has made an offer to buy the stake in Corvus Gold Inc. that it does not already own for about $460 million. The South African gold miner already holds a 19.

TORONTO — As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on over the past 16 months, Vanessa Staniforth experienced both burnout and career stagnation in her job. “I started to feel stuck,” said the 30-year-old Ottawa-based software developer.

MONCTON, N.B. — Organigram Holdings Inc. reported a loss of $4 million in its latest quarter compared with a loss of $89.9 million in the same quarter a year earlier. The cannabis producer says the loss amounted to 1.

TORONTO — Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP has extended the deadline of its hostile takeover offer for Inter Pipeline Ltd. to Aug. 6.