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MONTREAL - Via Rail Canada says most of the 1,000 employees affected by the suspension of service last month due to blockades will be called back to work as most normal service resumes on Sa...

Gloves made in China for the popular French brand Lacoste appear to have been sewn inside a factory where ethnic minorities face forced ideological and behavioural re-education, according to a U.S.-ba...

OTTAWA - Canada's telecom regulator won't force mobile service providers to offer customers paper invoices, at least not yet. But the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission i...

OTTAWA - Canada is making off-road electric vehicles and automotive equipment eligible for immediate tax writeoffs in a bid to encourage Canadian companies to buy them, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau s...

FRANKFURT - The head of the European Central Bank said Monday that Europe's top monetary authority is ready to take "appropriate and targeted measures" if necessary to support the economy against the ...

WASHINGTON - American factories expanded in February for the second straight month, despite disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The winning streak, however, may prove short-lived. The Inst...

PARIS - The spreading coronavirus epidemic shut down France's Louvre Museum on Sunday, with workers who guard its famous trove of artworks fearful of being contaminated by the museum's flow of tourist...

TORONTO - Subway has been ordered to pay the CBC $500,000 in legal costs following its failed bid to sue the public broadcaster for defamation. In his decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice Ed Morga...

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of $11.0 billion over the first nine months of its 2019-20 fiscal year. The result compared with a surplus of $324 million for the same period of its 2018...

Stocks sank around the globe again Friday as investors braced for more economic pain from the coronavirus outbreak, sending U.S. markets to their worst weekly finish since the 2008 financial crisis. T...