Tag Archives: business

TORONTO - Ontario wrapped up the 2024-25 fiscal year with a significantly lower deficit than initially projected in the budget, yet the province will implement a modified hiring freeze in an effort to...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is back in London this week - his second visit to the British capital among 13 foreign visits since March - and his globe-trotting schedule is drawing both criticis...

Business groups expect a "massive" hit to small companies' operations after unionized postal workers began a countrywide strike on Thursday evening. But the Canadian Federation of Independent Business...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $7.8 billion for the first four months of its 2025-26 fiscal year. According to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal monitor, the resul...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is lifting a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars that would have taken effect in 2035. Environment Minister Bernard Drainville says the decision will give industry a b...

OTTAWA - With Canada Post workers hitting picket lines, the flow of mail across the country has stopped. Here's what the move means for items you may have been expecting in your mailbox. Mail delivery...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says total tourism spending in the second quarter rose 0.9 per cent as an increase in domestic travel was offset in part by fewer visitors from the U.S. The agency says tota...

TORONTO - A homeless encampment in Toronto's west end was cleared by the city Friday morning after a small group of remaining residents said they wouldn't leave until they got permanent housing. City ...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product grew 0.2 per cent in July, the first increase in four months. However, its early estimate for August indicated that real GDP for that month ...

MONTREAL - The president of Montreal's Concordia University says the success of the school's most ambitious funding campaign ever is a heartening "statement of faith" that comes at a difficult time fo...