National Business

MONTREAL — Bell Canada is partnering with Perplexity, an AI-powered conversational search engine, to give its customers a year of free artificial intelligence services.

TORONTO — The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board says it earned a six-month net return of 2.1 per cent for the first half of 2025. The fund's 12-month net return was 7.1 per cent. The pension fund manager says net assets totalled $269.

Jeremy Guenette was sitting in an Idaho parking lot waiting for his kids to finish back-to-school shopping two years ago, when he noticed business was booming at a nearby truck mixing colas, cream and fruity flavours.

TORONTO — Ontario's final tally for housing starts in 2024 is well off what's needed to achieve Premier Doug Ford's goal of getting 1.5 million homes built, even with various new categories the government is adding such as university dorms.

VICTORIA — BC Wildfire Service said an out-of-control wildfire burning on Vancouver Island near Cameron Lake could generate smoke for the "coming weeks, and potentially the coming months.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Hudson's Bay Hudson’s Bay and B.C.

TORONTO — Like some superhero channelling the power of lightning, Algoma Steel Inc. has started using the heat cast off by the arcs of powerful electric currents to make greener steel.

OTTAWA — A Canadian senator is calling on Ottawa to be more transparent on its policy to restrict arms exports to Israel, following contradictory reports about what manufacturers have been allowed to send to the Middle East.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s minister of energy and climate solutions said Site C won't be the last major energy project in the province after becoming fully operational ahead of schedule. The dam in northern B.C.

TORONTO — Several of Canada's most prominent real estate companies are slamming an attempt from a B.C.