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Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,395.00, up 120.19 points.) Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Up one cent, or 0.03 per cent, to $35.19 on 14.6 million shares.
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Aritzia beats expectations as third-quarter profits more than double on revenue boost

Aritzia beats expectations as third-quarter profits more than double on revenue boost

VANCOUVER — Aritzia Inc. handily beat expectations as its net profit more than doubled on a big boost in revenues in the third quarter of its fiscal year. The Vancouver-based clothing retailer says it earned $64.
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Imperial to market Montney, Duvernay assets in central Alberta

Imperial to market Montney, Duvernay assets in central Alberta

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. says it intends to market its more than 260,000 hectares of assets in the Montney and Duvernay oil and gas-producing areas of central Alberta.
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Commodity prices help lift S&P/TSX composite. loonie despite surging U.S. inflation

Commodity prices help lift S&P/TSX composite. loonie despite surging U.S. inflation

TORONTO — Commodity price gains helped lift Canada's main stock index and the loonie even as U.S. inflation was at its hottest in nearly four decades last month. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 120.19 points to 21,395.00.
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Truckers say vaccine requirement for crossing border will exact economic toll

Truckers say vaccine requirement for crossing border will exact economic toll

MONTREAL — Truckers are warning that a Saturday deadline requiring them to be vaccinated in order to enter Canada will put additional strain on supply chains amid the latest COVID-19 surge and severe worker shortages.
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Inflation at 40-year high pressures consumers, Fed and Biden

Inflation at 40-year high pressures consumers, Fed and Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years last month, a 7% spike from a year earlier that is increasing household expenses, eating into wage gains and heaping pressure on President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve to
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Shaw Communications reports $196M first-quarter profit, up from $163M a year ago

Shaw Communications reports $196M first-quarter profit, up from $163M a year ago

CALGARY — Shaw Communications Inc.
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NATO, Russia eye more high-level talks despite tensions

NATO, Russia eye more high-level talks despite tensions

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the military organization and Russia have agreed to try to set up more meetings to ease tensions between them amid deep concern in the West about whether Moscow might order a
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UK's Johnson apologizes for attending party during lockdown

UK's Johnson apologizes for attending party during lockdown

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized Wednesday for attending a garden party during Britain’s first coronavirus lockdown, but brushed aside opposition demands that he resign for breaching the rules his own government had imposed on th
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Teck says United Steelworkers issue strike notice at its Highland Valley copper mine

Teck says United Steelworkers issue strike notice at its Highland Valley copper mine

VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. has received strike notice from the union representing workers at the company's Highland Valley Copper operations in British Columbia's southern Interior.
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