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OTTAWA - Canada's federal banking regulator is moving to make it easier for banks to loan money to small and medium-sized businesses and for some real estate projects. The Office of the Superintendent...

ABU DHABI - Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an investment-protection agreement Thursday with the United Arab Emirates during a visit to Abu Dhabi that has involved limited media access as concerns g...

VICTORIA - Trade of tens of thousands of goods across Canada's 14 jurisdictions will soon be free after an agreement has been signed between all provinces, territories and the federal government to al...

TORONTO - A multinational security firm that used to provide screening services at airports in British Columbia and the Yukon is suing the Canadian government for more than $420 million after being re...

CALGARY - Alberta and Ottawa are said to be closing in on a "grand bargain" that could see a new West Coast oilsands pipeline built in tandem with emissions-offsetting measures, but it's unclear it wo...

EDMONTON - Alberta's auditor general estimates the government's failed effort to privatize community lab testing services left taxpayers on the hook for about $109 million. Auditor general Doug Wylie,...

TORONTO - A cryptocurrency firm incorporated in British Columbia is appealing a $176 million penalty issued by Canada's anti-money-laundering agency last month. Xeltox Enterprises Ltd. says in an appe...

MONTREAL - Hydro-Qubec's chief executive says she is confident a draft energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador will be finalized, despite political moves in the eastern province that leave the agre...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's hopeful the federal government and Alberta can make progress on getting a pipeline built and allowing some tanker traffic on the northern B.C. coast. ...

British Columbia's jobs minister says ending a tanker ban on the province's northern coast to service a pipeline from Alberta to B.C. would put billions of dollars' worth of other projects at risk by ...