The Canadian Press

Statistics Canada said Tuesday real gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 3.1 per cent in the first quarter, helped by business investment and household spending.

"Canadian inflation is running more than three times faster than target,'' Desjardins' head of macro strategy, Royce Mendes, wrote in a note to clients Monday.

"We need Canadians to be able to seize these opportunities and to have the tools, training and resources they need to thrive," Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says 295,133 Nexus applications have yet to be processed due to ongoing office closures prompted by COVID-19.

The Smiths Falls-based cannabis company says it had a net loss of $578.6 million for the quarter ended March 31 compared with a net loss of $616.7 million a year earlier.

Smaller internet service providers are cautiously optimistic about the new telecom policy directives unveiled by the federal government that are aimed at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

"...Markets are struggling to predict how we land the economy, do we land it with a slight recession? And our message today is, it could go either way, it's 50-50," says RBC chief executive Dave McKay.

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StatsCan said employers were seeking to fill more than one million positions at the beginning of March, up 22.6 per cent from February and 60.5 per cent from the prior year.

"My major cause for concern right now is establishing what insurance will and will not cover, and how expeditiously they will do so," said one Carlsbad Springs resident.