National Business

MONTREAL — Air Canada is preparing for a potential shutdown of most operations next week as contract talks with its pilots' union near an impasse.

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's road safety agency wants the auto industry to design new vehicles including i ncreasingly large SUVs and pickup trucks so they reduce pedestrian deaths and injuries.

VANCOUVER — Methanex Corp. has signed a deal to buy OCI Global's international methanol business in an agreement valued at US$2.05 billion, including assumed debt.

Unions trying to organize at Amazon workplaces across Canada are facing a series of hurdles, including legal challenges and alleged anti-union tactics from the e-commerce giant.

VANCOUVER — One long-time user of Metro Vancouver's HandyDART transit service said she hopes the mediated talks that began Sunday can bring about the end of a work stoppage that has halted most service for the past six days.

CALGARY — As daily water use in Calgary remains above target during repairs to a major feeder main, a city official warns the effect on pumps and other infrastructure is like a car's engine running too hard for too long.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Macklem speech Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem will give a speech to the Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday in London.

CALGARY — Cher, Anthony Hopkins, Heath Ledger, Alec Baldwin and Tom Hardy are just a few of the celebrities John Cumming met while growing up in his family's military surplus store.

When Bell Canada announced in June it was selling Northwestel Inc. to a consortium of northern Indigenous communities, the telecom giant hailed the $1-billion deal as a milestone in advancing Indigenous self-determination.

TORONTO — David Furnish says he made a comforting discovery about his husband during production of the new Elton John documentary: the music superstar long desired to be a father.