National Business

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Surging COVID-19 cases in Chicago prompted Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday to ban indoor dining and bar services and limit the number of people gathering in one place.

TORONTO — Hudson's Bay Co. has filed a lawsuit against the landlord of several of its department stores, alleging a failure to operate and maintain "first class shopping centres.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,020.94, down 58.61 points.) Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE). Energy. Up 30 cents, or 6.7 per cent, to $4.77 on 14 million shares.

TORONTO — North American stock markets were relatively flat Tuesday with corporate earnings dictating the share performance of individual companies.

VANCOUVER — The Alberta's government's decision last week to end its oil production curtailment program in December will help advance a plan by Teck Resources Ltd. to sell its stake in the Fort Hills oilsands mine, says CEO Don Lindsay.

More than 130 Canadian tech leaders are calling on the prime minister to create a prosperity plan because they say the country won't excel without support for innovators and the government has been slow to offer help.

CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. is aiming to cut as many as one in four jobs — potentially more than 2,000 workers — if it succeeds in its $3.8-billion friendly takeover of rival Husky Energy Inc.

Workers at two more Indigo Books and Music Inc. stores have voted in favour of unionization, bringing the total to three locations. Bookstore employees at an Indigo in Montreal and a Chapters in Coquitlam, B.C.

HALIFAX — A Halifax travel agency is offering two weeklong trips to Cuba reserved exclusively for residents of the Atlantic Canada bubble.

Drugmaker Merck, bouncing back from a $1.6 billion hit from the coronavirus pandemic in the second quarter, boosted its third-quarter profit by 55% and blew past Wall Street expectations.