Tag Archives: Economy

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's November employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.9) Employment rate: 60.9 per cent (60.8) Participation r...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Carney, Trump and Sheinbaum to meet at 2026 World Cup draw in Washington Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney met privately Friday with U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Washington, D.C., as relationships between the North American n...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy continued to blow past job forecasts in November but some economists caution against reading too much into a series of strong headline figures. Statistics Canada said Friday ...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney is planning to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at a FIFA World Cup event Friday in Washington as trade negotiations between Canada and the United States r...

OTTAWA - The European Union says Canada will need to pay 10 million euros - the equivalent of C$16 million - to join a defence procurement agreement with the continent, a price tag that is raising que...

OTTAWA - Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn't be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any other organizations with sketchy human ...

OTTAWA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and...

TORONTO - Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4 billion since 2021 and is now burning expired products, the province's auditor general found....

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a budgetary deficit of $16.1 billion for its April-to-September period. The result compared with a deficit of $13.0 billion for the same period a year earlier, acco...