Tag Archives: business

OTTAWA - The federal government's deficit has grown to $7.3 billion so far this fiscal year. The Finance Department's latest fiscal monitor says the deficit between April and July compares with a $1.2...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product grew 0.2 per cent in July, following essentially no change in June, helped by strength in the retail trade sector. The agency says the growt...

VANCOUVER - A chemical firm based in Port Coquitlam, B.C., claims Health Canada wrongfully cancelled its licences to make natural health products after being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department...

TORONTO - One year after Canada launched a voluntary code of conduct on artificial intelligence, tech organizations that signed on say they don't regret the decision but wouldn't mind some more compan...

HALIFAX - An offer of additional financial aid to Nova Scotia's wine industry is still on the table despite being rejected by grape growers earlier this week, say provincial officials. During a briefi...

Oleet Processing and its parent company O&T Farms announced a $10 million expansion at their plant northwest of Regina. The company says it will translate into new jobs and a bigger grain market f...

OTTAWA - French President Emmanuel Macron is in Canada for a brief visit to Ottawa and Montreal. Macron arrived last night from New York and had an informal dinner at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's h...

MONTREAL - National Bank of Canada has cleared a key regulatory hurdle in its proposed acquisition of Canadian Western Bank. The Montreal-based bank said Thursday it has received the Competition Burea...

MONTREAL - Visual effects and animation companies are uniting to strike a better deal with the Quebec government after it implemented tax changes that some firms say will cost them nearly two-thirds o...

VANCOUVER - In the seven years since the NDP came to power in British Columbia, food prices have jumped by almost 30 per cent. Rent and transport costs are up by about a quarter, while the cost of fil...