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TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. says it has laid off employees from its customer service department amid a shift in customer habits.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. is seeing more participation in its popular PC Optimum loyalty program — and more points СÀ¶ÊÓƵ redeemed at checkout.

MONTREAL — The head of TFI International Inc. says its latest quarter was a "disaster" marked by low cargo volumes amid a trucking sector slump, with the first half of 2025 "foggy" at best.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index lost more than 100 points Thursday, weighed down by losses in technology and industrials, while U.S. stock markets also fell.

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street retreated from its record after a sharp slide for Walmart weighed on U.S. stock indexes. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Thursday after setting all-time highs in each of the last two days.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the expectation of more duties and additional tariffs piled onto Canadian softwood lumber would "absolutely be devastating" for the country's industry.

QUÉBEC — Service is slower and more costly after a $1.1-billion overhaul of the information technology system at Quebec's auto insurance board.

Enbridge Energy's plans to build a protective tunnel around an aging pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes can continue, a Michigan appeals court ruled.

VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. says it expects to find other trade routes for some of the metals it refines in B.C. if the U.S. goes ahead with tariffs.

The threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian energy won't affect planned spending by Cenovus Energy Inc., but the company says such levies may prompt a "rebalancing away from the United States" when it comes to where it ships its oil.