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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada's first-ever defence industrial strategy Tuesday in Montreal. It seeks to boost Canadian defence exports by 50 per cent within a decade. The $6.6-bi...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.3 per cent in January, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely beca...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.3 per cent in January, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.4 per ce...

OTTAWA - The outlook for Canada's provinces is difficult to chart but some surprising resilience to U.S. trade pressures and historical revisions to economic data have most provinces on better footing...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reported an easing in the headline inflation rate Tuesday but a jump in the pace of food inflation amid tax changes and lingering pressures at the grocery store continue to ...

OTTAWA - Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon is visiting Saudi Arabia and India after a trip to Germany as part of an effort to drum up new investment in Canadian tech. The stops are "about ...

TORONTO - Regulatory filings show that Scotiabank's 1832 Asset Management has sold its remaining holdings in Israeli defence manufacturer Elbit Systems Ltd. The bank faced criticism for the investment...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has made a series of claims recently about how much the federal government's support for tariff-stricken industries has protected jobs in Canada. Some of his figure...

Prime Minister Mark Carney has made a series of claims recently about how much the federal government's support for tariff-stricken industries has protected jobs in Canada. Some of his figures on the ...

WASHINGTON - United States lawmakers expressed support for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade during a Thursday committee hearing after President Donald Trump floated the idea of ending the cri...