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OTTAWA - The country's largest employers will soon be able to land federal financing to help weather the COVID-19 economic crisis, but are being warned they'll need to open themselves to financial scr...

OTTAWA - The country's largest employers will soon be able to land federal financing to help weather the COVID-19 economic crisis, but are being warned they'll need to open themselves to financia...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Cora Dion's voice echoes as she films a video showing what's left in the basement of her home in downtown Fort McMurray after several days of flood cleanup. The couch and c...

MONTREAL - The densely populated slums of Montreal's Griffintown were the subject of a famous 1897 study by businessman and philanthropist Herbert Ames, whose work on the disease-ridden tenements...

WASHINGTON - In the shark-infested seas of the world's new normal, Canada and the United States are in the same leaky economic boat - but one is bailing water while the other swims for shore. Bot...

With job numbers continuing to drop in Saskatchewan, the provincial government is extending its aid package to small- and medium-sized businesses. The government announced Friday it was extending the ...

WASHINGTON - In the shark-infested seas of the world's new normal, Canada and the United States are in the same leaky economic boat - but one is bailing water while the other swims for shore. Bot...

OTTAWA - The federal government will extend its emergency wage-subsidy program beyond its early-June endpoint as new job figures showed historic losses since COVID-19 forced an economic...

OTTAWA - Virtual sittings of the House of Commons and parliamentary committees are causing headaches for interpreters - literally. Coping with iffy audio quality, occasional feedback loops, new t...

TORONTO - The economic brutality of Canada's anti-pandemic measures was highlighted on Friday with the latest figures showing almost two million people lost their jobs in April on top of the one milli...