National Business

TORONTO — Ontario is loosening restrictions on restaurants, allowing outdoor dining in Toronto and Peel Region while increasing capacity in other regions starting Saturday.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (18,854.00, up 17.53 points.) Denison Mines Corp. (TSX:DML). Materials. Up three cents, or 2.14 per cent, to $1.43 on 27.5 million shares.

TORONTO — The consumer discretionary sector responded positively to retail sales numbers and prompted Canada's main stock index to inch higher to conclude a relatively flat week.

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. has entered into a public-private partnership to build more than 300 new towers to improve wireless service in underserved parts of Eastern Ontario.

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd.. is recommending investors attending its annual meeting in May vote against a shareholder resolution that it adopt a corporate wide target to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

GATINEAU, Que. — The Competition Bureau Canada says it has already received an unprecedented amount of online interest related to Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc.

MONTREAL — Dorel Industries Inc. is selling one of its Chinese manufacturing facilities acquired in 2014.

EDMONTON — Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis says two men have been charged after it seized $2.3 million in contraband cigarettes and cigars.

DANDONG, China — China on Friday put on trial one of two Canadians held for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive.

The Justice Department has charged a Swiss hacker with computer intrusion and identity theft, just over a week after the hacker took credit for helping to break into the online systems of a U.S. security-camera startup.