National Business

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added just 235,000 jobs in August, a surprisingly weak gain after two months of robust hiring and the clearest sign to date that the delta variant’s spread has discouraged some people from flying, shopping and ea

TORONTO — The Toronto Regional Real Estate board says August home sales slowed from the frenzied pace seen earlier in the year, but market conditions have tightened as supply plummeted by 43 per cent and prices rose yet again.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s Sept. 14 recall election could remove first-term Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca said Friday that they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company’s COVID-19 vaccines.

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The operator of a limousine company was spared prison time Thursday in a 2018 crash that killed 20 people when catastrophic brake failure sent a stretch limo full of birthday revelers hurtling down a hill in upstate New York.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (20,795.12, up 105.54 points.) Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Up 43 cents, or 1.85 per cent, to $23.71 on 14.2 million shares.

VALCOURT, Que. — BRP Inc. reported a second-quarter profit of $212.9 million, up from $126.1 million a year ago, and raised its profit guidance for the year. The maker of Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos says it earned $2.

TORONTO — A surging energy sector propelled Canada's main stock index to new highs ahead of Friday's U.S. jobs report that could give the Federal Reserve the green light to begin tapering its stimulus. Energy gained 3.3 per cent as U.S.

Ontario restaurant operators say they are hopeful vaccine passports will help them remain open for business this fall, but are concerned about interpreting proof-of-vaccination certificates and enforcing the rules.