National Business

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,121.32, down 40.01) Avcorp Industries Inc. (TSX:AVP). Industrials. Up 11 cents, or 366.67 per cent, to $0.14 on 23.03 million shares.

EDMONTON — Alberta municipalities that have been economically thrashed by the COVID-19 pandemic are receiving more than $1 billion in support from other levels of government.

TORONTO — Landlords need to be taken “out of the equation” of the government's small business rent relief plan as another month's rent comes due, says a lobby group.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's small- and medium-sized technology businesses are getting some financial help from the federal government.

TORONTO — A rival bidder for Torstar Corp. is seeking to appeal an Ontario judge's ruling that allows NordStar Capital LP to proceed with its $60-million purchase of the newspaper publishing company.

TORONTO — Major North American indexes dipped into the red Tuesday while gold continued its streak of record highs, inching closer to breaking the $2,000-an-ounce barrier.

Stocks pulled lower on Wall Street Tuesday following a mixed set of earnings reports from dozens of big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 fell 20.97 points, or 0.6%, to 3,218.44 after a last-hour slide erased a small gain from earlier in the day.

TORONTO — WE Charity says it has "mutually agreed" to suspend its partnerships after a flood of companies announced they were dropping their support for the embattled organization whose founders faced parliamentary hearings on Tuesday.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: George Weston earnings George Weston Ltd. releases its Q2 financial results on Tuesday.

TORONTO — Canadians cannot expect the economy to fully recover from COVID-19 without helping those most affected by the downturn — including women, people of colour, and the LGBTQ+ community, a new report says.