National Business

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index closed down Wednesday while U.S. markets were mixed as economic data showed signs of weakness on both sides of the border. Statistics Canada reported that the Canadian economy shrunk 0.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has granted short-term rental platforms an extra month to confirm their listings are legal.

MAVILLETTE — Police are investigating the latest case of someone allegedly firing a gun at the home of a lobster buyer in southwestern Nova Scotia.

MONTREAL — One of Quebec's largest hospitals cancelled surgeries on Wednesday after it lost power the night before during one of a series of violent storms that swept through the province.

MONTREAL — The head of CGI Inc. says bookings by U.S. government clients dropped sharply in its latest quarter amid economic uncertainty and a spending crackdown by a task force led by billionaire Elon Musk.

CALGARY — A prominent shareholder advisory firm says a dissident investor has not cleared the bar to justify taking control of Parkland Corp.'s board of directors, but there is a case for change.

Uncertainty about both the rapidly changing U.S. trade policy and the impact it’s having on the Canadian economy dominated discussion by the Bank of Canada governing council in the lead-up to its interest rate hold earlier this month.

EDMONTON — Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat.

The chief executive of Capital Power Corp. said a key focus in the months ahead will be digesting two soon-to-be purchased U.S. natural gas power plants.

The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump's trade wars disrupted business.