National Business

BURNABY, B.C. — Interfor Corp. has signed a deal with an affiliate of the Kilmer Group to buy Chaleur Forest Products in New Brunswick for C$325 million. Chaleur owns sawmill operations in Belledune and Bathurst, N.B.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. says it has signed a deal to sell a stake in a portfolio of operating wind projects in the United States and Canada to InfraRed Capital Partners.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A theater in Hungary's capital will sit through a cold and quiet winter after its managers chose to shut it down rather than pay skyrocketing utility prices that are putting a squeeze on businesses and cultural institutions a

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote following a polarized election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — An exit poll in Bulgaria suggested Sunday that the center-right GERB party of ex-premier Boyko Borissov, a party blamed for presiding over years of corruption, will be the likely winner of Bulgaria’s parliamentary election.

PARIS (AP) — Valentino’s Paris fashion show on Sunday saw snared lines of black cars dropping off battalions of celebrities who, amid the commotion, just couldn’t find the entrance.

The Halloween mood on Baruch Labunski's Toronto street has been eerie the last two years — and not in a witches-and-goblins way. "Throughout the pandemic nobody really put up decorations and there were hardly any kids," he said.

Moviegoing audiences chose the horror movie over the romantic comedy to kick off the month of October.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Home sales Some of Canada's biggest cities are expected to release their home sales figures for September this week.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a cease-fire, imploring him to “stop this spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine and denouncing the “absurd” risk of the “uncontrollable” consequences of nu