National Business

MILAN — The only Black designer belonging to Italy’s influential fashion council is demanding a "long overdue cultural reform’’ from her colleagues under the slogan: Do Black Lives Matter in Italy? The conversation has gotten off to a rocky start.

TORONTO — TMX Group Ltd. has named John McKenzie as its new chief executive, effectively immediately.

CALGARY — Veteran oilman Mike Rose says he doesn't want to "jinx it," but he admits it's not so bad heading the company that last year became the biggest producer of natural gas in Canada.

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement.

The federal government says it's concerned that a controversial regulatory decision last year may undermine investments in Canada's communications networks, particularly in rural and remote areas.

LOS ANGELES — In a story August 14, 2020, about California’s rolling power outages, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the state’s last such outages occurred in 2011. They occurred in 2001. The Associated Press

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,514,61, down 15.45 points) D-Box Technologies Inc. (TSX:DBO). Technology. Up three cents, or 75 per cent, to seven cents on 15.

The Competition Bureau has launched a probe into Amazon's conduct to determine whether the online retailer is harming competition.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index dipped into the red Friday as the materials sector weighed it down amid falling gold prices.

TORONTO — Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's main fund achieved a 5.6 per cent net return for the quarter ended June 30. The Toronto-based fund manager says its base CPP account had $434.