National Business

HALIFAX — A Halifax microbrewery has taken on the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation over beer markup fees — and lost.

ANACLA, B.C. — A Vancouver Island First Nation says a Vancouver-based liquefied natural gas company has pulled out of a planned LNG development just months after it was announced as a major milestone.

LONDON — British lawmakers issued a scathing report Monday that calls for tougher rules to keep Facebook and other tech firms from acting like "digital gangsters" and intentionally violating data privacy and competition laws.

CALGARY — Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd. says it has abandoned a court-supervised sale of the company to East River Oil and Gas Ltd. after the buyer failed to make a required deposit payment by Feb. 15.

Berlin is unveiling a new app that will let people use public transport, rental bikes, car-sharing and taxis seamlessly to travel through the German capital.

AURORA, Ill. — An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that should have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six other people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant from buying the gun.

LONDON — Victoria Beckham doesn't need celebrities at her fashion shows — her A-list family provides more than enough star power.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Poloz speaks Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz will give a speech to the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal on Thursday.

CALGARY — For Canadians who've made faithful contributions to an RRSP for most of their working lives, converting it to an RRIF may seem a terrifying milestone.

LONDON — It's said that history often repeats itself — the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Many Britons feel they are living through both at the same time as their country navigates its way out of the European Union.