National Business

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says wholesale sales fell 0.6 per cent in July to $80.2 billion, led by a drop in the personal and household goods subsector.

VANCOUVER — Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. has signed a deal with Teck Resources Ltd. to take a 50 per cent stake in a copper-zinc project in Mexico for US$580 million.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country to ensure energy security before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year, officials said Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West is breaking up with the Gap.

IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities found a mass burial site near a recaptured northeastern city previously occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Thursday night.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation's freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections.

Lululemon Athletica Inc. founder and billionaire Chip Wilson is donating $100 million to the B.C. Parks Foundation to help protect and enhance the province's nature.

WHISTLER, B.C. — British Columbia's Liberal leader says more supply is the answer to the province's housing affordability crisis, while some local leaders also called for more immediate action.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,560.16, down 165.98 points.) Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ). Energy. Down $2.30, or 3.11 per cent, to $71.57 on 7.

TORONTO — North American markets ended the trading day in the red, with Canada's main stock index down more than 150 points and U.S. stock markets also lower. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 165.98 points at 19,560.