National Business

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, ending a four-day losing streak. The S&P 500 added 1.2% Monday. The benchmark index is coming off its worst week in nearly a year and a half.

INGERSOLL, Ont. — Unifor says bargaining has begun with General Motors for workers at the automaker's CAMI assembly plant and battery facility in Ingersoll, Ont.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Power is being fined for the third time in four years for failing to meet annual performance targets for the reliability of its energy grid.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — One month after a judge declared Google's search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.

MONTREAL — Air Canada is preparing for a potential shutdown of most operations next week as it says contract talks with its pilots' union remain far apart.

CALGARY — Calgary's mayor says every skipped toilet flush over the next two weeks will matter as repairs on a troubled water main near the finish line and a treatment plant picking up the slack works full-tilt.

LAVAL, Que. — Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says it is "disappointed" in a refusal of its takeover offer by the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven and remains focused on reaching a deal.

CALGARY — Pembina Gas Infrastructure Inc. has signed a deal to buy a group of infrastructure assets from Veren Inc. for $400 million. Under the agreement, PGI — a Western Canadian gas processing company jointly owned by Pembina Pipeline Corp.

MONTREAL — Air Canada is preparing for a potential shutdown of most operations next week as contract talks with its pilots' union near an impasse.

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's road safety agency wants the auto industry to design new vehicles including i ncreasingly large SUVs and pickup trucks so they reduce pedestrian deaths and injuries.