Tag Archives: Economy

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government says it will lower the small business tax rate to 10 per cent in January and to nine per cent in 2019, the start of a week-long effort to stanch the bleeding fr...

The average price of a house in Regina has dropped slightly due to uncertainty in the energy and resource sector, according to a Canadian real estate survey. Royal LePage's House Price Survey released...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - At what would have been the eastern end of the Energy East Pipeline, rookie Mayor Don Darling is in mourning. The veteran businessman, elected mayor just last year, presides over a ...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is once again raising its benchmark interest rate as it sees the economy's powerful performance pointing to broader, more self-sustaining growth. The central bank hiked its...

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is applauding a new agreement aimed at eliminating trade barriers in Canada. "This is a major step forward," explained Marilyn Braun-Pollon, Vice...

Saskatchewan's economy is set to rebound slightly in 2017. That's according to the Conference Board of Canada, whose members were on hand for the Saskatchewan Economic Summit on Monday. Economist Pedr...

Saskatoon will soon be building bridges in the business world. A new $50-million office tower will rise downtown as a World Trade Center. Canwest Commercial and Land Corporation is behind the project,...

Enough with the doom-and-gloom already. That was the message from 980 CJME business analyst Paul Martin as he looks ahead to 2017. Martin said there's no doubt 2016 was a challenging year in the provi...

It could be good news for the Stoughton area, as a U.S. energy company takes steps to put a refinery there. Quantum Energy Inc. said it has created a Canadian subsidiary, Dominion Energy Processing Gr...

A big cheque cut for the Saskatchewan-born company Skip the Dishes has fluttered away after the province said the company didn't meet conditions in the deal. Previously, the government defen...