National Business

EDMONTON — CWB Financial Group says a legal claim against one of its subsidiaries is the reason behind the delay of the release of its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results.

MONTREAL — The chief executive of Air Canada has been elected as the new chairperson of the Star Alliance chief executive board. Michael Rousseau succeeds United Airlines chief executive Scott Kirby, who has held the title since December 2020.

VANCOUVER — Lundin Mining Corp. has signed a deal to sell a pair of mines in Europe to Boliden AB in an agreement valued at up to US$1.52 billion.

Omnicom is buying Interpublic Group in a stock-for-stock deal that will create an advertising powerhouse with combined annual revenue of almost $26 billion. Shareholders of The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. will receive 0.

MILAN (AP) — A fuel depot exploded in the central Italian region of Tuscan on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring nine, authorities said.

TORONTO — It's lunch time at the Eaton Centre mall in downtown Toronto and every corner of the food court is hungry for customers. Bourbon St.

TORONTO — Inside Ontario's legislature, the halls are decked, the sounds of children’s choirs singing Christmas carols waft down the corridors, and in the air there’s a feeling of an election.

Paradoxically, people tend to see eye to eye on the word itself.

WASHINGTON — A Conservative member of Parliament met with Donald Trump's second-in-command over the weekend as Canada prepares for the U.S. president-elect's return to the White House next month amid threats of devastating tariffs.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a new chapter for Syria can begin that's free of terrorism and suffering for its people. In a social media post on X on Sunday, Trudeau said the fall of the Assad dictatorship "ends decades of brutal oppression.