National Business

MONTREAL — Police have opened a criminal negligence investigation into the fatal collapse of retaining walls on Tuesday at a construction site north of Montreal.

TORONTO — Mining claims in the Ring of Fire region are up 66 per cent over the last three years and now total an area 14 times the size of Toronto, an environmental group said Wednesday after compiling the data.

Canada’s main stock index took its biggest tumble in nearly six weeks on Wednesday, while American markets fell even harder under pressure from rising U.S. Treasury yields amid worries about the U.S. government's spiralling debt.

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street slumped on Wednesday under the weight of pressure from the bond market, where Treasury yields climbed on worries about the U.S. government’s spiraling debt and other concerns. The S&P 500 fell 1.

TORONTO — The Edmonton Oilers' NHL reign in the 1980s will be the subject of a new docuseries involving Ryan Reynolds' production house Maximum Effort.

TORONTO — Canadian auto industry leaders say the country has to use the Trump-induced industrial crisis as an incentive to build bigger at home.

TORONTO — Canada Goose Holdings Inc. executives say tariffs are having little impact on the business, but the uncertainty they pose is great enough that the company is withholding its outlook for this fiscal year.

OTTAWA — Canada Post has issued a new set of offers to the union representing postal workers and is pushing for a speedy resolution as the clock ticks down to a possible strike.

OTTAWA — Canada Post has put a fresh set of offers on the table in its negotiations with the postal workers' union, but there are no guarantees a deal will land before mail carriers are set to strike at the end of the week.

QUÉBEC — The Quebec government has tabled a bill to force streaming giants such as Netflix and Spotify to boost access to French-language content.