Tag Archives: business

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the issue of competition in the big tech-dominated digital wallet market should be on the Competition Bureau's radar. In a letter to the bure...

OTTAWA - The board of directors for CBC and Radio-Canada has approved bonuses for some staff for work they did in the most recent fiscal year, despite members of Parliament saying it would be inapprop...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain, fell 0.8 per cent to $82.2 billion in May. The overall...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government plans to relax a rule that requires energy companies seeking to buy viable wells from bankruptcy proceedings to first pay all the failed producer's outstanding taxes....

MONTREAL - Five Quebec municipalities located by a proposed site for a graphite mine with ties to the Pentagon have created an alliance to accelerate public consultations on the project and pressure t...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Canada is being asked to declare that only humans - and not artificial intelligence - can be considered authors under Canada's copyright law. It's the first court case in...

HALIFAX - A historical piece of real estate in Halifax that is listed as the childhood home of Viola Desmond has been conditionally sold. The listing says the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home on Mayna...

MAYO, YUKON, CANADA - The Victoria Gold mining company says it's uncertain if it will ever resume production or if it has the financial resources to repair damage and fix the environmental impact of l...

BURNABY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby says there's a "zero per cent chance" the province will implement recommendations by the provincial health officer that alternatives to opioids and o...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says supervised consumption sites are just "drug dens" and that he will close them if his party forms the next government. Poilievre visited a park near s...