National Business

OTTAWA — Canadian wholesale sales rose for a third consecutive month to set a record in May, helped by rising food and machinery sales, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said wholesale sales were up 0.5 per cent in May at $72.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts slowed in June. The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts fell 1.

VANCOUVER — Methanex Corp. is raising its dividend after slashing its quarterly payment to shareholders last year at the start of the pandemic. The methanol producer says it will now pay a quarterly dividend of 12.5 cents US per share, up from 3.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s emergency officials say they have found a plane that has gone missing in Siberia and all of its 19 passengers and crew are alive.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Some bookstores in Hungary placed notices at their entrances this week telling customers that they sell "non-traditional content.

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge ordered former Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers star Richard Sherman released from jail without bail Thursday following his arrest on suspicion of trying to break in to his in-laws’ home.

CALGARY — Farmers are calling for emergency disaster relief as drought ravages crops and pastures across the Prairie provinces and beyond.

TORONTO — The Toronto-Dominion Bank says it has resolved a problem that temporarily prevented customers from accessing its U.S. online and mobile banking services.

NEW YORK (AP) — A California movie producer was arrested Thursday on a New York indictment accusing him of using a movie production company to operate an international prostitution business.

CALGARY — Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP has upped its hostile takeover bid for Calgary-based Inter Pipeline Ltd. The company is now offering $20 in cash or 0.