National Business

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed close in a rare quiet day for financial markets worldwide. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite slipped less than 0.1%.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew expressed an openness Tuesday to a potential second port on Hudson Bay as a tool to help ramp up trade with Europe amid trade disputes with the United States.

TORONTO — A new guideline for treating obesity in children and adolescents says medication can be helpful, but that health providers should prioritize addressing nutrition, exercise and psychological needs.

Groupe Dynamite Inc. says it expects to close about 10 stores that are mostly in Canada this fiscal year, even as it plans to open up to 20 more in the U.S. over the same time frame.

TORONTO — The majority of Ontario's electricity utilities don't study how climate change could threaten parts of the power grid, a survey found as the province eyes changes that would require them to assess their vulnerability to extreme weather and

TORONTO — CIBC has become a founding partner of the WNBA-expansion Toronto Tempo. CIBC will become the basketball team's official bank and appear on team jerseys when the Tempo begin play in 2026.

If a plumber showed up to your house with no truck or tools, how could they help? At most, they could only talk about your basement flood.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says total manufacturing sales rose to their highest level since September 2023 as they climbed 0.2 per cent to $72.9 billion in February.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in March slowed compared with February.

TORONTO — When Nina Kharey wakes every morning, the first thing she does is search online for U.S. President Donald Trump in hopes that the global trade war he sparked is dissipating. Most of the time, her hunt ends in disappointment.