Tag Archives: Economy

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the median family after-tax income in 2022 fell compared with 2021, after adjusted for inflation, with young people being the hardest hit. The agency says the median fa...

OTTAWA - Two sectors were responsible for the majority of corporate capital gains earned in Canada over five years but added no new jobs over that time span, a new study found. The Centre for Future W...

VANCOUVER - Lawyer Rob Patterson says the phones at B.C.'s Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre never stop ringing - but he worries a decision allowing a landlord to impose a 27 per cent rent increase ...

PENTICTON, B.C. - British Columbia's fruit growers co-operative that served farmers for almost a century has filed for creditor protection, citing more than $58 million in liabilities and a disastrous...

A subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned mining firm says Canada is wrongly considering a national security review in its agreement to purchase a gold and copper mine in Peru. In May, Vancouver-based Pan...

OTTAWA - A future Conservative government would slap massive import tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and a host of other products in a bid to protect Canadian jobs, Leader Pierre Poilievre sa...

OTTAWA - Students who have been hunting for a summer job and recent immigrants looking for work have felt the brunt of the country's weakening labour market, Statistics Canada's latest employment repo...

An Ontario Superior Court heard arguments on Thursday in a lawsuit filed by Frank Stronach's granddaughter, who is seeking an order compelling the family business to disclose any documents that might ...

Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says the city is facing a "financial crisis" that raises the spectre of tax hikes and service cuts, alleging the city has been treated unfairly on issues of taxes and trans...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has named three experts that will assess its internal review of the central bank's policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts are Pablo Hernndez de Cos, former g...