National Business

TORONTO — An activist investor has launched a legal suit against Hudbay Minerals Inc. over the way it's been represented in company filings.

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TORONTO — Canopy Growth Corp.'s co-chief executive Bruce Linton is expecting a “growth quarter” ahead and foresees the cannabis company will generate $1 billion in revenue during its next financial year. The Smiths Falls, Ont.

MONTREAL — An SNC-Lavalin joint venture has secured a contract valued at more than $1 billion to decommission three nuclear reactors at a power plant in New York.

MONTREAL — The head of Bombardier Inc. says the continuation of its regional jet program hinges on whether the company can fill up the CRJ's partly blank order book.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Liberal government wants to retrieve coal from old mines, even as its federal counterpart aims for the phasing out of coal-fired electricity.

Ottawa's new mortgage stress tests accounted for at least half of the decline in new mortgages started last year, according to a new report by CIBC that calls for the measure to be revisited amid a falling housing market.

CALGARY — Colliers International says a rising trend of "reverse migration" is starting to bring office tenants back into Calgary's core, resulting in a decline in the downtown vacancy rate during the first three months of the year.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — An iconic Kentucky bourbon that reintroduced itself to American whiskey drinkers only last decade is ready to ramp up production in hopes of gaining a greater foothold in the U.S.

WASHINGTON — U.S. industrial production fell in March, pulled down by a drop in mining output. Factory output remained weak amid a slowing global economy and trade tensions with China.