Tag Archives: Economy

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government announced Tuesday that its promised program to encourage people to buy local will award points only at Sobeys Inc. grocery stores and the provincial liquor corpora...

MIRABEL, QUE. - The Quebec government is injecting another $413 million into the Airbus A220 commercial jet program, formerly known as the C Series, in a bid to improve its return on investment. The a...

TORONTO - Doing business across provincial lines is starting to get easier but progress is slow, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. In a report released Tuesday, the CFIB says it's ...

TORONTO - Canada's investment product regulator says it imposed more than $14 million in fines and other financial enforcements in its last fiscal year. The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization...

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...

Three times a year, the 600-or-so employees of Friesens Corp. gather in front of the printing house to accept envelopes, each one holding a cheque for the workers' share of company profits. They all g...

WINNIPEG - Manitobans are increasingly worried about the cost of living and crime, and are becoming less confident in the justice system and public service, a poll commissioned by the provincial gover...

OTTAWA - The major shift in the British political landscape after Thursday's election is reviving hope for a possible free-trade deal across the pond in Canada. Keir Starmer officially became prime mi...

OTTAWA - The Canadian job market stalled in June as the economy lost 1,400 jobs and the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level in more than two years, bolstering the case for further interest ...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Exactly 32 years after the federal government imposed a moratorium on Newfoundland and Labrador's commercial cod fishery, harvesters in the province demanded on Tuesday that Ottawa ...