National Business

TORONTO — Bank of Nova Scotia will spend $500 million over the next decade on a new program that aims to break down barriers to higher education and career advancement for "disadvantaged" groups.

Lightspeed POS Inc. is expanding its business to include suppliers, as the Canadian technology company jockeys to compete with dominant retailers like Amazon.

The conservative-friendly social network Parler was booted off the internet Monday over ties to last week’s siege on the U.S.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (17,934.45, down 107.62 points.) Hut 8 Mining Corp. (TSX:HUT). Down $2.12, or 25.06 per cent, to $6.34 on 15.1 million shares.

TORONTO — North American stock markets fell from Friday's record highs in a broad-based decrease amid virus and political uncertainties.

NEW YORK — The ownership group for several talk radio hosts across the country, including syndicated figures like Mark Levin and Dan Bongino, says its personalities need to tone things down or face firing.

HALIFAX — Air Canada's service cuts in Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick risk slowing the entire region's economic recovery, the CEO of a regional airport authority said Monday. The airline's decision to cut service to Saint John, N.B.

TORONTO — The head of Canada’s federal banking regulator won’t consider lifting restrictions that have kept banks and insurers from hiking dividends, offering share buybacks or increasing executive compensation until COVID-19 lockdowns have subsided.

TORONTO — Long, white peaked structures have cropped up around Ontario hospitals — and while they use the same blueprint as military barracks and greenhouses, construction workers are working to transform them into state-of-the art hospital wings.

OTTAWA — Consumers' concerns about finding work during the pandemic could signal longer-term problems for the country's labour market, the Bank of Canada says.