National Business

NEW YORK (AP) — Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-'til-you-make-it startup culture.

WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.

VANCOUVER — The company behind what will be Canada's first major liquefied natural gas export facility has appointed a new CEO. LNG Canada says Chris Cooper will succeed current chief executive Jason Klein, effective April 1, 2025.

Operations at Canada Post will resume at 8 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Dec. 17, the company said, after the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered a return to work.

VANCOUVER — The Canadian men's team will be part of the Vancouver Sevens, competing in an invitational event in conjunction with the HSBC SVNS stop in February.

TORONTO — BlackBerry Ltd. has signed a deal to sell its Cylance security business to Arctic Wolf. Cylance uses artificial intelligence to help users detect malware and prevent cyberattacks.

LONDON (AP) — Britain's government gave the go-ahead Monday for the sale of Royal Mail's parent company to a Czech billionaire, paving the way for the postal service to pass into foreign ownership for the first time in its 500-year history.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in November rose eight per cent compared with October, helped by strength in multi-unit starts in Quebec, Alberta and B.C.

OTTAWA — Housing Minister Sean Fraser says he will not be running in the next federal election, citing a need to spend more time with his family.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government has made payments in less than 10 per cent of the nearly 10,000 claims it has received since the remnants of Hurricane Debby hit the province in August, causing severe flooding and damage.