Tag Archives: Economy

OTTAWA - The gap between the country's highest earning and wealthiest households and those at the bottom end grew in the third quarter of last year as strong financial market gains benefited the rich....

OTTAWA - German submarine manufacturer TKMS has signed an agreement to team up with Seaspan Shipyards to support and maintain potential future patrol submarines supplied to Canada over the long term. ...

New research shows less snowpack in certain regions of Canada can have wide-ranging effects on everything from farms and wildlife to the broader economy. The Concordia University study, published in t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premiers said Thursday they're maintaining a united front under the long shadow of the upcoming negotiations for the review of North America's key free trad...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says her government has a plan to transform the provincial economy, but warns doing so will require difficult decisions, including cuts to government spe...

WINNIPEG - A post-secondary institute in Manitoba is winding down operations, with the provincial government blaming a federal cap on international student visas as the reason for the closure. The Man...

OTTAWA - Canada's premiers are set for two days of huddling in the nation's capital with the economy, affordability and trade expected to be high on the agenda. The premiers meet with Prime Minister M...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada kept to the sidelines at its first interest rate decision of the year as it warned the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement and other emerging geopolitical r...

TORONTO - Marineland has a "solid plan" to move Canada's last remaining captive whales and dolphins to several parks in the United States, Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said Tuesday. On Monday, t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he told U.S. President Donald Trump personally that he meant what he said in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. C...