Tag Archives: business

FREDERICTON - A photo of federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay eating lobster in Malaysia during an official trip has some people seeing red. Shared Sunday on the minister's profile on the X ...

OTTAWA - Canadian business investment per worker plummeted by 20 per cent over a 15-year stretch, according to new Statistics Canada research that suggests weaker competition is partly to blame. The r...

OTTAWA - Retail sales in December came in slightly stronger than economists were expecting, driven by strong sales for new cars and parts. Statistics Canada reported retail sales rose 0.9 per cent to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Kendra Sawyer spoke with her dad from the Deschutes County jail and told him she loved him. Six hours later, in the throes of opioid withdrawal, the 22-year-old took her own life...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - After years of refusing to expand Medicaid, some of Mississippi's Republican leaders now say they are open to the policy - if they can require new enrollees to have a job. That a...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - An application submitted by a man accused of sexual assault to provide Newfoundland and Labrador's first ride-hailing operation was approved in just one day, according to emails obt...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The federal government has signed a tourism funding agreement with the Atlantic provinces worth $30 million. A federal news release says the Atlantic Canada Agreement on Tourism is ...

OTTAWA - As the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine looms, war-displaced Ukrainians looking to make Canada their permanent home have few answers about what the government will do to allow them to...

OTTAWA - Canada's financial intelligence agency and European allies are highlighting attempts to export sensitive technology to Russia in violation of sanctions imposed against Moscow. The warning com...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A Virginia bank says it will delay plans to auction off land at West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's posh resort in an attempt to recover more than $300 million on defaulted busin...