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MONTREAL - Weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the federal consumer carbon levy, more than half of Quebecers want their province to follow suit and abolish its own price on carbon, a new p...

TORONTO - In the future, seeing the carbon emissions of a company may not be much harder than finding out how many calories are in a chocolate bar, but that day looks further out than it did just a fe...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 1.7 per cent in April, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely becaus...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 1.7 per cent in April, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 0.4 per cent...

BANFF - High-ranking officials from the world's top economies are in Banff, Alta., this week for a three-day summit that will cover topics including the global economy, the war in Ukraine and artifici...

OTTAWA - Signs that underlying inflation was picking up in April put the Bank of Canada in a tricky position ahead of its June interest rate decision, with some economists arguing a second straight pa...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's power utility is facing transformational challenges of drought, rising costs and a trade war with the United States as it works to meet electricity demand that's surging...

Aidan McLaren-Caux is used to being stopped in grocery store aisles by people who want to discuss issues as a local politician, but a federal agency's decision to cull a flock of 400 ostriches in Edge...

MONTREAL - A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's closure in January of seven warehouses in the province. Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs fol...

CALGARY - The mayor of Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta says the Alberta Energy Regulator's approval of a controversial coal exploration project on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is l...