National Business

CROWSNEST PASS, Alta. — A mayor in southwestern Alberta is hoping for an immediate meeting with Premier Danielle Smith to discuss a coal project his community has voted in favour of being built.

TORONTO — Barrick Gold Corp. says four employees at its Loulo-Gounkoto mine in Mali have been charged and detained pending trial. The Canadian gold miner says it refutes the charges, but did not say what they entailed.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — People in Nunavut and northern Labrador have been writing to Canadian government officials this year to say grocers were charging exorbitant prices despite receiving a federal subsidy.

TORONTO — Financial regulators say they're looking into allegations of high-pressure sales practices in Canadian bank branches.

OTTAWA — The federal government is barring a company previously co-owned by a Liberal MP and former minister from bidding on contracts with the federal government.

OTTAWA — Canada's financial intelligence agency says it is modernizing with the aim of providing valuable information to police and security officials in real time — or as close to that goal as it can get.

The threat of tariffs added a further drag on the loonie, which has been moving lower against the U.S. dollar since September.

Here are five things to know about Donald Trump's tariff threat and what it means for Canada.

TORONTO — Canadian business leaders say Donald Trump's threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods would be a "lose-lose" scenario in which local companies face pressure to lower their costs while their American counterparts pay more.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.'s chief executive says the company is taking a "persistent" but "friendly" approach with the Japanese owner of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain it's trying to acquire.