The Mix

MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc. reported its first-quarter profit was up compared with a year ago, helped by strength in its telecommunications business. The company says its net income attributable to shareholders totalled $173.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein will remain locked up in New York as a court works out whether he should stay in a city jail while he awaits a retrial in a rape case, or be sent back to California to continue serving a prison sentence.

CALGARY — A new survey shows nine out of 10 Canadian energy sector executives believe oil prices will remain strong for the next three to five years.

TOKYO (AP) — Loaves of bread have been taken off store shelves in Japan after the remains of “a small animal” believed to be a rat were found.

MONTREAL — WSP Global expects to continue an acquisition spree this year after snapping up several more companies in the first three months of the year.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was up more than 150 points, as strength in telecommunication stocks and the base metal sector helped put it into record-high territory in late-morning trading. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 151.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Selleck starts his memoir in the middle of a car crash. He is 17 and in the passenger seat when he and two friends go airborne in his mom's red Chevy Corvair, tumbling off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.

TORONTO — Four books about Indigenous life are among the finalists for the $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Space technology firm MDA Ltd. says it earned $13.8 million in net income in its first quarter, down from $16.1 million a year earlier, as its revenue edged higher.

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. is the latest retailer to warn of softening consumer demand as high costs of living continue to rein in spending.