National Business

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index closed higher Friday, though not as much as U.S. markets which got a boost from a positive jobs report.

Wall Street extended its gains to a ninth straight day Friday, marking the stock market’s longest winning streak since 2004 and reclaiming the ground it lost since President Donald Trump escalated his trade war in early April.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is joining Indigenous organizations in calling for Hudson's Bay to keep artifacts and sacred items off the auction block.

ST. JOHN'S — If all goes to plan, many in Newfoundland and Labrador will likely remember outgoing premier Andrew Furey for ending a decades-old lopsided energy deal with Quebec, according to his inbox.

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. said frigid weather was to blame for reduced output at its Kearl oilsands mine in northeastern Alberta during the first quarter, but that it's since recovered to deliver strong April production.

TORONTO — The head of Magna International Inc. is cheering a tariff exemption for automobile parts compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement. The U.S.

Shopify Inc. is changing a revenue share exemption it launched in the COVID-19 pandemic to help small developers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — American employers added a surprising 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump's trade wars .

Finding out your tax return is under review — especially after you've already spent your expected refund — can be unnerving. But it's far less serious and more common than you think, tax experts say.