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- The federal government is waiving the monthly rent paid by airport authorities to Transport Canada for the rest of the year as revenues plummet amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Canada's housing market could see a significant pullback this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but could rebound next year, a report by RBC says
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says large and small businesses, non-profits and charities will all be eligible for a 75-per-cent subsidy on wages meant to cushion the blow from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Air Canada's proposed acquisition of Transat AT Inc. likely will hinder competition and result in less choice for Canadian travellers, the Competition Bureau says
- Small and medium business owners and entrepreneurs got a boost from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday as he handed more out relief for companies grappling amid COVID-19
- The Bank of Canada is cutting its key interest target by half a percentage point to 0.25 per cent in an unscheduled rate announcement
- Netflix is lowering video quality for its subscribers in Canada as it attempts to reduce soaring demands on internet bandwidth in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is expanding its insured mortgage purchase program to $150 billion as part of its response to the COVID-19 crisis.
- Ontario Real Estate Association president Sean Morrison said the designation of realtors in the province as an essential service means it should be used only when necessary
- The federal government announced Wednesday that it is planning a $30-million COVID-19 awareness advertising campaign and moving closer to implementing long-promised tax credits for newspapers as it
- The spending boost includes a $1-billion COVID-19 contingency fund, nearly $1 billion more for hospitals, and more personal protective equipment for front-line workers
- Finance Minister Bill Morneau said the measure allows companies to temporarily let go of workers to cut payroll costs and leave money in the affected employees' pockets
- The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says small business confidence has fallen to a new low amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- A growing number of business and labour groups are urging the federal Liberals to up their promised wage subsidy to help companies hit hard by COVID-19 keep people on their payrolls
- All Ontario businesses deemed non-essential have been ordered to close Tuesday night as part of escalating government measures meant to curb the spread of COVID-19
- Ontario has slashed the price of hydro temporarily as many people work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford is ordering the closure of all non-essential businesses in the province to help deal with the spread of COVID-19
- Restaurant owners are struggling to stay afloat as health authorities and governments urge wide-scale shutdowns
- The decision comes as non-essential travel around the world comes to a standstill as governments close borders in an effort to slow the COVID-19 pandemic
- A union official says Air Canada is laying off more than 5,000 flight attendants as the country's largest airline cuts routes and parks planes due to COVID-19
- Closure of the world's longest undefended border will begin in earnest today as Canada and the United States work out the details of banning non-essential travel between the two countries
- While Canada's response to the COVID-19 outbreak has taken off drastically in the last week, some have found it lopsided across the country.
- Delays in tax filing deadlines and temporary wage subsidies were announced Wednesday as part of a $82B relief package
- The Ottawa Senators say owner Eugene Melnyk has now "personally pledged" to pay part-time arena staff affected by the suspension of the NHL season
- Canopy Growth Corp. says it's closing all of its corporate-owned Tokyo Smoke and Tweed stores later today in an effort to help limit the spread of COVID-19
- Federal government managers and employees have been advised to take precautions to manage the load on communications systems as Canadians shift to remote working conditions during the novel coronav
- Air Canada says it is halving its flight capacity in the second quarter and withdrawing its earnings forecast for 2020 and 2021 amid a 'severe drop in traffic' due to the novel coronavirus
- The Ontario government announced Sunday that it was drafting legislation to ban employers from requiring sick notes for those in self-isolation or quarantine
- Canada's national museums are set to shut their doors in Ottawa Saturday as the COVID-19 pandemic hits cultural venues across the country
- The Bank of Canada is cutting its overnight rate target by half a percentage point to 0.75 per cent in response to COVID-19
- Earlier in the day, the U.S. Federal Reserve pumped vastly more money, US$1.5T, into American financial markets, which did little to stop the bleeding on North American stock markets
- Canada's largest labour organization and the group that bills itself as the voice of business look to jointly confront the economic fallout from the rampaging novel coronavirus
- The federal government is rolling out a $1 billion funding package to help cope with new coronavirus cases and to help Canadian workers who are forced to isolate themselves
- Air Canada is suspending flights to and from Italy, saying the decision was prompted by Italian regulations and 'ongoing health and safety concerns' related to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus
- Toronto Wolfpack co-founder Eric Perez unveiled details of his new franchise Monday in Ottawa
- Canada's top central banker says concerns about the immediate impact of the novel coronavirus spurred the Bank of Canada to cut its trend-setting interest rate this week
- Canopy Growth Corp. is orchestrating a massive overhaul involving a layoff of 500 workers and a multimillion-dollar writedown
- Shopify Inc. says it is postponing all events, one-on-one appointments and workshops at its Los Angeles entrepreneurs' space
- The Ottawa Senators fired new CEO Jim Little on Wednesday, continuing a string of executive departures for a club that has struggled on and off the ice in recent years.
- The Bank of Canada is cutting its key interest rate target by half of a percentage point, dropping it to 1.25 per cent in response to the economic shock from the novel coronavirus outbreak.
- The company is backed by two high profile personalities, including former Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton, who sits on its board, and venture capitalist Kevin O'Leary who serves as an investor and…
- The latest job figures from Statistics Canada and an interest rate update from the Bank of Canada are on tap this coming week
- Shopify Inc. says the recent outbreak of a novel form of coronavirus has prompted it to cancel its annual conference
- The Ontario Liberals won two Ottawa-area byelections in convincing fashion Thursday night, hanging onto the ridings with more than 50 per cent of the vote
- Many transit riders in Ottawa were left out in the cold during a heavy snowstorm after serious power issues on the city's light-rail system slowed service to a snail's pace Thursday
- A spring black bear hunt could soon be a permanent annual event in Ontario again, the provincial government suggested as it launched a public consultation on the idea.
- The CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. says that Canada's wireless industry has not fully matured and still needs "careful nourishing" as it makes huge investments in fifth-generation networks
- More than $770 million in contracts have already been awarded for the building, but there is no overall cost estimate yet
- Investors concerned about the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak that began in China.
- About 200 protesters marched through downtown Ottawa in support with the Wet'suwet'en hereditary leaders
- Shopify has joined a controversial, Facebook-led group working on a worldwide digital currency even after technology and financial heavyweights have fled the high-profile association
- The rail blockade in Eastern Ontario has led to backlogs at Canada's three biggest ports, prompting some shippers to take their business elsewhere as cargo piles up and dockworkers' paycheques shrink
- National price increases fuelled by higher costs at the gas pump and pricey produce.
- New minimum qualifying rate will be the greater of the borrower's contract rate or the weekly median five-year fixed insured mortgage rate from mortgage insurance applications, plus two percentage…
- Alanis Morissette, Boyz II Men and Blink-182 are among the hitmakers set to perform at Ottawa's RBC Bluesfest.
- Via Rail says partial service is set to resume between Quebec City, Montreal and Ottawa beginning Thursday
- Canopy Growth Corp. says it's planning further cost cuts as it reported a $124.17-million loss in its third quarter of 2020, though that was less than analysts had expected
- Blockades set up by anti-pipeline protesters have forced Canadian National Railway Co. to shut down its entire network in Eastern Canada and Via Rail to cancel passenger service across the country
- StubHub will pay a $1.3 million penalty for making misleading pricing claims and will ensure costs for Canadian events it sells tickets to are posted with their mandatory fees
- Via Rail is cancelling service on its Montreal-Toronto and Ottawa-Toronto routes until at least the end of the day on Friday
- Cineplex Inc. won't be changing its name, but the theatre chain will probably see some job losses, the company's likely new owner says
- Via Rail said 157 passenger trains have been cancelled, affecting 24,500 travellers on routes between Montreal and Toronto, and Ottawa and Toronto
- Atletico Madrid's Fernando Lopez will oversee operations for the Ottawa club with Redblacks's Jeff Hunt as a “strategic partner.”
- The number of business insolvency filings in the fourth quarter were down 4.1 per cent compared with the fourth quarter of 2018, but up 9.7 per cent compared with the third quarter of 2019
- A slew of corporate earnings, including Smiths Falls-based cannabis producer Canopy Growth, are set for this week
- Industry watchers say this week's rash of cannabis company layoffs and executive departures is likely to continue
- Via Rail says it has suspended service on busy routes east of Toronto due to a protest blocking the tracks
- A Quebec oversight body has blacklisted four subsidiaries of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. from bidding on public contracts in the province for five years.
- The mayors are asking for help to fund zero-emission transit fleets and a top-up to the depleted disaster mitigation and adaptation fund that helps municipalities deal with severe flooding
- Breaking down inter-provincial trade barriers and reforming tax and regulatory systems will keep the country's economy humming into the future, the Bank of Canada's second-in-command says
- TD Bank lowered its posted five-year fixed mortgage rate on Tuesday to narrow the gap between the benchmark and the special rates it offers customers
- BlackBerry Mobile says TCL Communication will no longer be making or selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices
- Unemployment figures and a speech from the senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada are on tap this week
- Canadian advertisers say Super Bowl marketing is being shaken up after the conclusion of a years-long battle over the precious airtime during the annual football spectacle.
- Cineplex Inc. says two influential proxy advisory services have recommended shareholders support a takeover of the company by U.K.-based Cineworld Group PLC
- The Ottawa side will become the professional league's eighth team when the CPL's second season begins in April
- A new report on modernizing Canada's communications laws is recommending the CBC/Radio-Canada gradually eliminate advertising on all platforms over the next five years
- About 60 per cent of Canadian boards were composed entirely of men in 2016 and 2017, but experts say regulations that took effect on Jan. 1 should go a long way to shrinking that number further
- Shopify is bulking up its presence and workforce on Canada's west coast with a plan to hire 1,000 people in Vancouver and open its first permanent office there
- Altus Group said a majority of 400 global commercial real estate executives polled said they are seeing the disruptive impact of technology on the sector
- Ottawa city hall's top bureaucrat has told elected officials that he's ready to take the blame if councillors want someone's head to roll over ongoing troubles with the city's light-rail system
- Economist says underlying pace of inflation remains close to Bank of Canada's target of 2%
- Central bank predicts Canadian economy will grow by 1.6% this year, slightly lower than its projection in October.
- Ontario's three main political parties have now nominated their candidates for a pair of Ottawa byelections that could be called any day
- Riders on Ottawa’s problem-plagued light-rail system are having another rough morning, with the OC Transpo saying only eight of the usual 13 trains on the line are in service Tuesday
- Inflation and interest rates will be among the figures to watch this coming week in Canadian business
- The company says work to scale up to commercial production is not complete and it is delaying the launch date while it completes the final steps
- Air Canada unveiled Wednesday its first Airbus A220 jetliner, one of an eventual 45 it aims to let loose on the North American market
- Business confidence in Canada has edged higher as global trade tensions have eased, but the Prairies, hard hit by a drop in energy prices, continue to remain a weak spot
- Postmedia Network Canada Corp. had a $3-million loss in its first quarter as overall revenue declined 8.5 per cent from a year earlier due to lower print advertising and circulation revenue
- Canada's top bank economists predict the country will see a few bright spots in 2020, even as the globe grapples with uncertainty in the Middle East and China
- Canadian bank executives are sharing their 2020 priorities today after a year that saw them grapple with layoffs, an increase in insolvencies and talk of an impending recession
- Housing starts and unemployment figures are among the stories to watch this week in Canadian business
- The Winchester Press thanked its readers, which it estimated at roughly 4,400, for their support over the paper's long stretch in business
- A travel data provider ranks WestJet Airlines Ltd. as the most punctual airline in Canada
- Political drumbeats are growing louder as the federal Liberals come closer to deciding whether to let a Chinese telecom firm help build Canada's next-generation mobile networks
- Deal to acquire MDA's Canadian and U.K. operations includes Kanata-based robotic vision company Neptec
- Stock price hits 26-month low.
- Federally backed public opinion polling has revealed a linguistic divide in the national capital over its much-maligned light-rail transit system
- The federal government has signed the first of what it hopes will be 13 funding agreements for a new rent supplement for low-income households
- Smart was head coach of the Ravens from 1999-2000 to 2018-19, presiding over the most dominant stretch by a team in U Sports basketball history
- A division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. will plead guilty to a charge of fraud and pay a $280-million penalty related to work the company did in Libya
- Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation ballooned to 2.5 per cent in November – the largest increase so far this year – according to data released Wednesday from Statistics Canada.
- Boeing Co.'s suspension of the 737 Max production line will mean further headaches for Canadian airlines, which were counting on the grounded jetliner to carry more passengers and boost profit margins
- Gatineau pot firm Hexo Corp. says it lost $62.4 million in its latest quarter compared with a loss of $12.8 million in the same quarter last year
- Cineplex Inc. has agreed to a friendly takeover that values the operator of Canada's largest chain of movie theatres at $2.8 billion
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued marching orders to his cabinet on Friday, with Ottawa's Catherine McKenna getting a note on LRT funding in her letter
- Andrew Scheer says he is stepping down as Conservative leader as soon as a successor can be chosen
- Ottawa Fury FC, which suspended operations last month, has sold its USL Championship franchise rights to Miami FC.
- The federal government plans to move quickly to approve the updated North American free-trade deal and is sifting the parliamentary calendar to find the right date, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says
- HBC shareholders are set to vote on a privatization bid next week.
- Earnings from the parent company of Sobeys and Farm Boy are among the business stories to watch this week
- Canopy Growth Corp.'s appointment of a veteran Constellation Brands executive as its new chief executive gave the cannabis producer's shares a lift on Monday
- Canopy Growth Corp. says its new generation of cannabis-infused food and beverage products won't be on store shelves until January in most markets
- Ontario's government and consumer services minister says she asked the CEO of the corporation that enforces warranties on new homes to step down
- Deputy Governor Timothy Lane will discuss the bank’s interest rate decision at Thursday morning’s Local Breakfast Series, hosted by the Ottawa Business Journal and the Ottawa Board of Trade
- "It sounds a bit old-fashioned."
- Jobs numbers, bank earnings and a speech by the deputy governor of the Bank of Canada at our own Local Breakfast Series are some of the big stories to watch this coming week
- Ottawa Centre MP Catherine McKenna says her top priority as the country's new infrastructure minister is to get projects built quickly
- Canada's largest grocery chain said the marketplace includes more products, as well as a broader range of vendors than what was available before
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled Wednesday a larger cabinet with local ministers taking a bigger role on infrastructure and finances in the Liberals’ minority government
- Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation rose slightly above the national average in October, up two per cent over last year’s figures
- The global economic picture has worsened, increasing risks to global growth and chances of financial stress that could spill over into Canada, the senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada said…
- Hexo Corp. says it is in the process of destroying cannabis that was grown without a licence at a facility it acquired in Niagara, that was part of its purchase of Newstrike Brand Ltd.
- Canada's largest telecommunications companies formally asked the federal cabinet on Wednesday to overturn a regulatory decision that slashes what they can charge their smaller competitors for access…
- The Ontario government's inability to develop sufficient retail capacity for cannabis products is forcing Canopy to revise its fourth-quarter guidance as Canada's market 'is simply not living up to…
- The number of consumer insolvencies (bankruptcies and proposals) increased to 8.5% compared with the same period a year earlier, while business insolvencies grew by 4.1%
- The latest earnings from Loblaw Companies and other major Canadian brands are due out this coming week
- The Ontario Liberals have nominated Stephen Blais as their candidate for an upcoming byelection in the riding of Orléans
- The Ottawa Fury are suspending operations, taking professional soccer out of the nation's capital
- Canopy Growth Corp. founder Bruce Linton has been named executive chairman of U.S. cannabis company Vireo Health International Inc
- CMHC says cities including Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Moncton, Halifax and St. John's show a low degree of vulnerability
- Canopy Growth Corp. is teaming up with Drake to launch More Life Growth Co., a licensed cannabis producer based in Toronto
- The companies say 2Keys and its approximately 100 employees will join the company, adding its digital identification technology
- Palma was responsible for the company's core product and services, including connected cars, smart speakers and data flows, that formed the foundation of its internet of things strategy
- Decades of under-investment made dedicated rental buildings an afterthought for many, but the industry has been quietly gathering momentum and attracting deep-pocketed investors
- The latest employment numbers from Statistics Canada are due out this coming week
- The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate on hold Wednesday to position the country as an exception among advanced economies that have already started responding to a fading global economy.
- Big business is adding its voice to a broader call for economy-lifting changes in Canada following an election campaign widely criticized for its dearth of deep policy discussion
- Shares of Hexo Corp. fell after the cannabis company posted a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter adjusted loss and an inventory writedown
- The Bank of Canada's next interest rate announcement and earnings from a slew of Canadian companies are on the docket this week
- Postmedia Network Canada Corp. says it earned $7.9 million in its fourth quarter, helped by lower expenses compared with a year ago
- Gatineau-based pot firm Hexo is reducing its workforce by 200 jobs to adjust for expected future revenues and "ensure the long-term viability" of the firm, its chief executive said
- Cannabis company Hexo says it is postponing its Q4 earnings release as it announces a $70M private placement of convertible debentures led by a group of investors, including its chief executive
- A new survey by the Bank of Canada suggests that business sentiment has edged higher but there are more pronounced differences between the Prairies, hard hit by the turmoil in the energy sector, and…
- Premier Doug Ford has changed the responsibilities of three of his cabinet ministers, including Nepean MPP Lisa MacLeod, ahead of the resumption of the legislature next week
- The bohemian Toronto neighbourhood of Kensington Market has long been a hotspot for weed culture and home to pot lounge Hotbox Cafe, and yet – one year after the legalization of recreatio
- Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation held at 2.1 per cent for the second month in a row, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday, mirroring a steady trend across the rest of the country
- Hexo is moving to undercut prices in the illicit market with a new 28-gram product that costs consumers as much as one dollar less per gram than at the average illegal dispensary
- Last week's commuter chaos dominated water cooler discussions, but experts say commuters should not to throw the train under the bus
- The latest inflation figures from Statistics Canada are due out later this week
- The chief financial officer of Canopy Growth Corp.'s largest shareholder has been appointed chair of the cannabis company's board of directors amid an ongoing shakeup in its executive ranks
- Cannabis company Hexo Corp. says its fourth-quarter net revenue will fall below its expectations by roughly 40 per cent
- Housing starts data and the latest employment figures are due out this coming week in Canadian business
- Gatineau cannabis company Hexo Corp. says its chief financial officer has resigned, effective immediately, after taking on the role in May
- Chief executive Bill Newlands' positive tone is a change from comments on Canopy made during its previous quarter, before co-CEO Bruce Linton was ousted from the firm
- Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth Corp. has bought a majority stake in BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc., a maker of sports nutrition products
- The retailer operates 44 stores in Canada, including two in Ottawa at the Rideau and Bayshore shopping centres
- Over the past three years Canopy's shares have appreciated by 1,823 per cent as of June 30, more than double fellow Ottawa-area firm Shopify Inc. at 883 per cent
- A pilot project that will see a slight bump in speed limits on part of Highway 417 and some of Ontario's other major arteries goes into effect Thursday morning
- A CBD line of products Martha Stewart is developing with Canopy Growth will likely hit the market in the middle of next year, said the American food and lifestyle guru
- BlackBerry Ltd. stock took a dive Tuesday after the company's second-quarter revenue fell short of analyst estimates as it experienced difficulties in a legacy unit that sells software and services…
- Earnings from Waterloo tech giant BlackBerry are among the stories to watch this week in Canadian business
- Ontario's provincial Liberals have lost another legislator after one of their members won the nomination to run for an Ottawa seat in next month's federal election
- U.S. President Donald Trump's push to withdraw from an international postal treaty could have a big impact on Canadian e-commerce companies that ship small goods from China to the U.S.
- Apparently, Beyond Meat burgers don't go that well with Tim Hortons coffee
- The annual rate of inflation in the nation’s capital held steady in August as the rest of the country saw the pace of price hikes slow
- The list of candidates includes executives who come a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, consumer-packaged goods, beverage and alcohol
- The growing wage gap between immigrants and Canadian-born workers is costing the country $50 billion each year, according to a new report from RBC Economics
- Shopify Inc. says its e-commerce and retail platform has been given new features to help U.S. merchants sell hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol products where permitted by law
- Canopy Growth Corp.'s co-founder and recently ousted co-chief executive says his eye is on a new frontier for medicine beyond cannabis: psychedelics
- An update to the LeBreton Flats development process and Canopy Growth's annual general meeting are on tap this week
- Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp. lost $42 million in the latest fiscal year, according to newly released public documents
- Empire Co. Ltd. says it has largely completed major structural changes as part of a turnaround plan but it is already looking to the next phase for the company
- The latest housing starts figures and earnings from retailers Roots and Hudson's Bay Co. are due out this week
- Ottawa's final Zellers retail outlet, alongside the other remaining holdout in Toronto, will close early next year, owner Hudson's Bay Co. announced Friday.
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. is removing its grounded Boeing 737 Max jets from its schedule until at least Jan. 5, affecting thousands of passengers with travel plans during the busy winter holiday season
- Mark Zekulin says the company is shifting from “building” mode and hefty investments in infrastructure and expansion to “operating” mode
- The Bank of Canada is holding steady on interest rates as it gauges the extent of the damage that deepening trade conflicts have had on the domestic and global economies
- Canada's biggest airline argues the $3.5-billion takeover would breach federal rules that limit foreign ownership of carriers
- Quebec taxi drivers are set to launch a rotating strike on Tuesday to express their dissatisfaction with the government's moves to overhaul the industry
- Canada's telecom watchdog has launched a review of new cellphone financing plans to ensure they comply with an industry code of conduct
- Air Canada says the Superior Court of Quebec has granted a final order approving the takeover following approval by shareholders last week
- Hudson's Bay Co. announced a deal Wednesday to sell its Lord and Taylor banner to Le Tote, a clothing subscription and rental business.
- Canopy Rivers Inc., the venture capital arm of Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth Corp., reported a net loss of nearly $3 million in its latest quarter
- Earnings from some of Canada's biggest banks are due out this coming week
- The fate of Air Canada's $720-million takeover bid for Transat A.T. Inc. rests with regulators after shareholders overwhelmingly approved the acquisition offer Friday
- Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation crept slightly higher than the rest of the country in July, as national prices rose in line with Bank of Canada targets.
- The Quebec government is providing $5 million in interim financing to help a struggling French-language newspaper chain with outlets in the National Capital Region
- Premier Doug Ford told a gathering of municipal leaders in Ottawa on Monday that the government was making the move after listening to their concerns
- Transat shareholders are scheduled to vote on Air Canada's proposed acquisition in one of this week's major Canadian business stories
- Canopy Growth Corp. executives have struck it rich as their total compensation surged to $28.5 million last year including the first months since cannabis was legalized in October
- Benoit Charette said he issued a notice to Energie de la Lievre and Services Energie Brookfield in connection with the incidents
- Canopy Growth shares fell to their lowest level this year on Thursday after quarterly results that suggested the cannabis producer lost market share and an announcement that its CEO plans to leave…
- Metro Inc. will fast-track adding technology tools, including self-service checkouts and electronic shelf labels, to its stores in a transformation that will help to lower labour costs
- Quebec's securities tribunal has barred a developer's offer to buy up Transat shares, halting Group Mach's bid to block the tour operator's sale to Air Canada
- Earnings from Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth are among the stories to watch this week in Canadian business
- Canadian Tire Corp. is diversifying its store offerings with a move the national retailer expects to strengthen its connection with millennial customers
- Transat is warning shareholders against an "abusive, coercive, misleading" move by Montreal real estate developer Group Mach to block the tour operator's sale to Air Canada
- Shopify Inc. shares are on the rise as gains in subscriber revenue powered strong second-quarter results that blew past analysts' expectations
- Air Canada, SNC-Lavalin and Enbridge will all report earnings this coming week in Canadian business
- The additional capital will fuel Auxly's plans to roll out next-generation cannabis products, such as vaporizers, when legalized in Canada later this year
- Algorithms focused on profitability and increased margins decreased the emphasis on promotions to bring customers into the stores.
- Quebec Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon said Wednesday the province will not offer financial help to SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. in spite of the construction giant's woes
- The federal government is investing $85 million into a local company’s advanced satellite technology designed to expand access to affordable, high-speed internet across Canada's rural and remote…
- Many of the country's priceless historical artifacts – and millions of other assorted bits – will be getting a new home in the National Capital Region, Parks Canada announced Tuesday
- Canada is officially asking four companies to send in their bids to supply a new fleet of fighter jets for the Royal Canadian Air Force
- Huawei Canada says it has received federal approval to work with a northern telecom company and an Inuit development corporation to extend high-speed 4G wireless services to 70 communities in the…
- As SNC-Lavalin Group’s new CEO veers away from end-to-end construction projects as part of a sharp change in course, the Montreal-based company has confirmed it will finish out major proj
- No one expects the NCC to decide the fate of the building until after the October election, says Heritage Ottawa
- The Bank of Canada has lowered the rate used by mortgage stress tests to determine whether would-be homeowners can qualify, marking the first drop in three years
- A minimum-wage worker could afford to rent in just a few neighbourhoods in Canada, suggests a new analysis of the country's rental market that also raises questions about a promised federal rent-…
- Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation rose at roughly the same rate as the rest of the country in June, as both figures came down from a spike the month before
- Canopy Rivers, the venture capital arm of Smiths Falls-based cannabis company Canopy Growth, swung to a loss in its latest quarter as its operating expenses soared
- June's inflation numbers are among the stories to keep an eye on this week in Canadian business
- Ottawa Centre MP Catherine McKenna wants the owners of the iconic Chateau Laurier by Parliament Hill to come up with another plan for an addition to the historic hotel even after city council appro
- The Bank of Canada is leaving its key interest rate unchanged in an announcement that balances domestic economic improvements with global trade conflicts
- Housing starts data, an interest rate announcement from the Bank of Canada and earnings from Couche-Tard are all slated for this coming week
- Ontario's information and privacy commissioner is calling on the provincial government to review and modernize its privacy laws to prepare for the 'risks inherent' with smart cities
- Linton said in media interviews Wednesday he expects to focus on roles at Ottawa tech firms Martello, Ruckify following his departure from the cannabis giant
- Ontario is set to get 50 more cannabis retail stores starting in October with as many as seven up for grabs in Ottawa and the surrounding region
- The federal government's carbon pricing scheme is constitutionally sound and has the critical purpose of fighting climate change, Ontario's top court ruled in a split decision on Friday
- Constellation CEO Bill Newlands, however, said challenges were to be expected, pointing to the slow rollout of recreational pot stores in Ontario, among other headwinds for the pot industry
- The funds would allow municipalities to make their infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather
- The board of directors of Transat AT Inc. has approved a $520-million takeover offer by Air Canada, a deal that faces legal and regulatory scrutiny along with resistance from Transat shareholders
- BlackBerry Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc. are expanding a partnership that they hope will give them a bigger role as technology suppliers to the world's auto manufacturers
- Bombardier Inc. has reached a deal to sell its floundering regional jet program to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for US$550M
- The federal infrastructure bank is going to put some money behind a few final, financially risky steps in Via Rail's high-frequency rail project, sources say
- Earnings from BlackBerry and Farm Boy's new parent company are due up this week in Canadian business
- A former regional vice-president for the Dessau engineering firm has pleaded guilty to participating in a bid-rigging scheme that cost the City of Gatineau an estimated $1.8M
- Shares of Canopy Growth slipped on Friday after the cannabis company reported an uptick in fourth-quarter net revenues but a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss
- Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod is one of several high-profile ministers demoted in a major cabinet shuffle announced today by Premier Doug Ford
- The federal government has approved a merger between two northern air carriers that Canada's competition watchdog has said would amount to a monopoly on key routes
- The approvals come after a U.S. hedge fund said that it will vote against the US$3.4-billion offer because it is 'unbelievably lopsided' in favour of Canopy Growth
- Shopify says it is expanding into fulfilment centres as it looks to grow its footprint in the highly competitive world of online retail
- Trudeau says construction will restart this construction season, but there is no specific date yet
- Shopify's annual conference and earnings from Canopy Growth are among the stories to watch this week
- The federal government says a "limited selection" of edibles and other next-generation cannabis products will hit retail shelves no earlier than mid-December 2019
- Hexo Corp. says it plans to launch hemp-derived CBD products in eight U.S. states in 2020 under Truss, its joint venture with Molson Coors
- The transition from animal meat to plant-based alternatives will unleash a new era of agricultural productivity and Canada is well-positioned to benefit, experts say
- Ian Edwards, the company's chief operating officer, has been named interim chief executive effective Tuesday
- A group of Hudson's Bay Co. shareholders, including executive chairman Richard Baker, is proposing to take the retailer private
- Federal officials are pushing the Canadian Infrastructure Bank to back Via Rail's high-frequency rail project, according to documents tabled in the House of Commons.
- A group representing Ontario craft breweries is welcoming the provincial government's move to expand beer sales to corner stores, saying the current system limits their products' exposure to customers
- A new round of repairs is in store for pathways around Parliament Hill, after the second major flood in three years.
- Quebec real estate developer Group Mach Inc. has made a takeover bid for Transat AT Inc.
- Strong winds uprooted trees and damaged homes, but nobody was injured when a tornado touched down in the Ottawa area Sunday evening.
- Small businesses in the four provinces with a national carbon price will share $1.4 billion over the next four years to help them reduce their energy use but business-owners say they are
- The Bank of Canada left its key interest rate steady Wednesday as it looked to balance mounting evidence of a domestic economic pickup against the expanding risks of international trade c
- An Ontario judge has cleared the way for a class action on behalf of about 300 former employees of BlackBerry Ltd.
- A Canadian high-tech pioneer says a "toxic" social media business model is a threat to democracy.
- Ontario's Progressive Conservative government has backed down on retroactive funding cuts to municipalities after sustained pressure from local leaders, who warned of devastating impacts
- Statistics Canada says almost 3,800 business locations were at risk of being affected by spring flooding in three of the hardest hit regions of the country.
- There were more experienced candidates available, but the Ottawa Senators believe D.J. Smith is the best coach to lead the team.
- Canopy Growth Corp. has signed a deal to buy skin-care company This Works for $73.8 million in cash.
- Tourism Minister Melanie Joly says a federal new tourism strategy can boost international visits to Canada during non-peak seasons by more than a million people.
- The governing body of English rugby league has accepted a bid to put a franchise in Ottawa.
- Canada's year-long standoff with the Trump administration over punitive U.S.
- A Liberal member of Ontario's legislature says she will resign later this year.
- Flood-ravaged provinces are asking the federal government to provide almost $138 million to move or buy out homeowners affected by previous years' inundations, according to new data that
- Air Canada's interest in buying rival Transat AT Inc.
- Ottawa’s annual inflation rate kept steady at 1.7 per cent for a third straight month in April while the rest of Ontario and Canada saw the pace of inflation rise due in part to the imple
- Ontario Liberal politician Marie-France Lalonde wants to run for Parliament to replace retired general Andrew Leslie in the Ottawa riding he's vacating after just one term.
- Onex Corp. has signed a friendly deal to buy WestJet Airlines Ltd. in a transaction it valued at $5 billion, including assumed debt.
- Tilray update
- Ontario will be raising speed limits to 110 kilometres an hour on Highway 417 and two other 400-series highways in the province.
- Statistics Canada says women fill 19.4 per cent of the seats on corporate boards of directors across public, government and private organizations, but more than half of all boards were co
- Air Canada earnings Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu speaks to analysts about the airline's first-quarter results on Monday.
- Water levels are expected to peak by week's end in flood zones around the nation's capital, federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Thursday as he toured neighbourhoods in east
- Statistics Canada says its latest survey shows more people are using cannabis since the legalization of recreational pot last fall and Canadians are increasingly buying it from legal reta
- Flood waters were still rising around Ottawa Wednesday, even as officials talked of planning for a future of similar disasters – and Canada's need to prevent, prepare and adapt.
- Canadian cigarette packs will have to be plain drab brown with standardized layouts and lettering under new rules that kick in next Nov. 9, Health Canada says.
- Weakness in the mining sector and troubles for the transportation sector caused by winter weather and a derailment that cut a key rail line weighed on the economy in February.
- Water levels along the Ottawa River are expected to peak in the coming days, even as the region prepares to receive more rain, forecasters say.
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. has announced cancellations and schedule changes on some of its routes as the airline deals with the continued grounding of Boeing 737 Max aircraft.
- RBI respite? Restaurant Brands International Inc. releases its first quarter financial results on Monday.
- An interprovincial bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau remain closed to vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists Monday morning as water continues to rise with peaks not expected along the Ottaw
- Business leaders worried about Canada's aging demographics have been urging political parties to avoid inflaming the immigration debate ahead of this fall's federal election.
- Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has declared a state of emergency over flooding along the Ottawa River and other waterways.
- The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday as it downgraded its 2019 growth forecast based on its prediction the economy nearly ground to a halt at the start of the
- A group of alcohol and cannabis companies have formed an industry alliance to push for changes to proposed rules governing pot-infused beverages before edibles become legal in the coming
- Former U.S. president Barack Obama is set to visit the nation's capital next month for a question-and-answer session.
- A Toronto-based developer has been named the new chairman of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
- More than 600 Canadian soldiers have fanned out across Quebec, including parts of the National Capital Region, filling and stacking sandbags as officials warn that flood waters are likely
- CP Rail results
- Ontario's constitutional challenge to the federal government's imposition of a carbon charge was left in the hands of five Appeal Court justices on Thursday after the hearing wrapped up w
- Canopy Growth Corp. has struck a deal to buy U.S. company Acreage Holdings Inc. for US$3.4 billion, but only if cannabis becomes federally legal in the United States.
- Canopy Growth Corp.'s co-chief executive says he is expecting a “growth quarter” ahead and foresees the cannabis company will generate $1 billion in revenue during its next financial year
- Canadian business sentiment has fallen from elevated levels as companies point to uncertainty around global trade, the housing sector and the energy industry, according to a new Bank of C
- BoC outlook
- After a long day and plenty of water, fire crews were able to contain a four-alarm blaze at a restaurant in the ByWard Market on Friday.
- Canopy Growth Corp.
- Postmedia Network Canada Corp.
- Canada's electricity providers say they need to appeal to a younger and more diverse workforce if they're going to keep the country's lights on.
- Ontario's Progressive Conservative government is set to table its first budget Thursday afternoon.
- A world-renowned Canadian pioneer of heart surgery and an institution in the Ottawa healthcare community has died.
- Ontario's realtors say the province should ban so-called "bully" offers that they say give some home buyers an unfair advantage.
- Housing starts
- The chief executives of Canada's biggest banks say they expect muted economic growth, a slower spring housing market and have concerns about the country's future prosperity, but also expr
- The chief executive of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
- Celine Dion is embarking on her first North American tour in more than a decade.
- The inaugural season of the National Arts Centre's Indigenous Theatre will go forward in a "greatly diminished capacity" this year after $3.5 million of requested federal funding was deni
- People in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick will be paying more for gasoline and heating fuel Monday when the federal government's carbon tax begins in provinces that refu
- BlackBerry Ltd.
- Ontario's finance minister says the province will move ahead with an expansion of beer and wine sales into corner stores, big box stores, and more grocery stores.
- Pineapple Express star Seth Rogen and screenwriter Evan Goldberg have teamed up with Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth Corp. to launch a Canadian cannabis brand called Houseplant.
- Apple Inc. announced a subscription news service Monday that counts the Toronto Star, La Presse, CTV News and Global News among its Canadian content suppliers.
- Lululemon earnings
- Embattled Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has once again incurred the wrath of some of his team's fans after making contentious comments on an Ottawa radio show Friday morning.
- Canopy Growth Corp. has acquired AgriNextUSA in a move to boost its hemp business in the United States. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately available.
- Eric Perez is looking to ramp up the Battle of Ontario by bringing a pro rugby league team to Ottawa.
- The federal Liberal government expects to sink deeper into the red this year, thanks to a federal budget Tuesday that's laden with election-year spending measures fuelled by a windfall of
- Finance Minister Bill Morneau will release the Trudeau government's final budget of its mandate Tuesday, just seven months before the next federal election.
- The National Arts Centre says its upcoming lineup will give centre stage to female and Indigenous artists.
- Budget day
- Canada's largest airline suspended its 2019 financial guidance after regulators in Canada and the United States closed their skies to the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft over safety concerns.
- Gatineau-based cannabis company Hexo Corp.
- Transport Minister Marc Garneau is closing Canadian skies to the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, effectively grounding the planes over safety concerns arising from the crash of an Ethiopian Ai
- The East Coast company behind multiple grocery chains in Canada is gaining market share from competitors after a period of losing ground following its troubled acquisition of Safeway in 2
- Quebecor earnings
- Finance Minister Vic Fedeli says Ontario's next budget will be released April 11.
- WestJet Airlines Ltd.
- Air Canada has boosted its profit forecast for 2019 while foreseeing fatter margins and heavier free cash flow over the next three years.
- Health Canada is looking into whether two cannabis companies' sponsorship of a children's charity event last October is in violation of promotion restrictions within the Cannabis Act.
- Crypto in court
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday that Canada will be a partner in a NASA-led project to establish an outpost for lunar exploration.
- Canopy Growth Corp. has signed a deal that will see Martha Stewart join the company in an advisory role to help develop a new line of products.
- Ottawa’s annual inflation rate dropped to 1.7 per cent in January, according to the latest report from Statistics Canada, though the capital’s rising prices continue to outpace the rest o
- Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk says he’s not giving up on a downtown arena after the National Capital Commission announced Wednesday that mediation had failed in RendezVous LeBreton’
- Canada's heritage minister says there will be no extension of a Thursday deadline to resolve a dispute over a plan to build a community featuring a new downtown arena for the Ottawa Senat
- In Dr. Joao Rezende-Neto's 25-year career as a trauma surgeon, he's only twice dealt with patients who insisted on forking over big bucks to buy equipment for a procedure.
- Foreign buyers
- Royal Bank of Canada raised its dividend as it reported quarterly net income of $3.17 billion, up from $3.01 billion a year ago, matching market expectations as market volatility during t
- Cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp. says it's teaming up with Quebec retail giant Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. to support a privately run pot shop in London, Ont.
- Canada's largest grocer reported sluggish same-store sales in its food business during its latest quarter, but touted growth in its online offerings after the company spent the past year
- A convoy of angry Albertans and other westerners rolled into Ottawa Tuesday for a mass protest against federal energy and environmental policies that has also become a magnet for extremis
- Poloz speaks
- Canopy Growth Corp. expects to have CBD products in the U.S.
- Canopy Growth Corp.'s revenue soared in its latest quarter on its first sales of recreational cannabis, but the licensed producer's loss from operations widened.
- Telus Corp.
- Alexandra Suda, a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, has been named as the next director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada.
- Molson Coors Brewing Co.
- A large proportion of small- and medium-sized businesses soon to be subjected to Ottawa's carbon tax worry they'll be unable to pass along the bulk of the extra costs to their customers,
- Shopify update
- The federal government is awarding a long-awaited contract to design its $60-billion fleet of warships to U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin.
- In May 2017, Uber announced it had hired a renowned University of Toronto professor to lead a Toronto-based team that develops autonomous car technology.
- Paul Dewar, a community leader and former MP Ottawa, died Wednesday after contending with brain cancer for a year
- Canada's financial regulator hit back at criticisms of its stress test for uninsured mortgages, which has made it harder for borrowers to qualify and weighed on national home sales, but s
- Canadian retailer Sunrise Records is pulling stricken retailer HMV out of bankruptcy in a deal that will safeguard some 1,500 jobs.
- Let's talk stress
- Ron Joyce, who rose from a childhood marked by the Great Depression to co-found the Tim Hortons doughnut chain, has died at the age of 88.
- Ontario home buyers may soon be able to find out the prices and conditions of other offers in bidding wars.
- A Gatineau museum has gone to the mat for fighter Georges St-Pierre to pluck one of his title belts from auction and put it on public display.
- The POT stock ticker has been allocated by random lottery to a publicly listed company, but Canada's largest stock exchange operator is not naming the company or the industry of the winne
- A union representing Ontario couriers delivering packages for Amazon.com Inc.
- Bikes, booze and e-scooters are part of Uber Canada's plans for the country in 2019.
- Metro meeting
- The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation is seeking a courier to make same-day pot deliveries, starting with the Greater Toronto Area.
- Cannabis store sales totalled $54 million in November, the first full month of legal recreational pot sales, according to Statistics Canada.
- Shopify is launching a TV and film content development and production house.
- The Trudeau government is looking for ways to make home-buying more affordable for millennials, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Tuesday as he held pre-budget public events in the Toron
- Premier Doug Ford ratcheted up his rhetoric on Ottawa's climate change plan Monday, warning that the carbon tax will plunge the country into recession – a claim disputed by experts and th
- Wholesale trade
- Ottawa’s annual inflation rate jumped to 2.5 per cent in December, one of the highest rates of any major Canadian city, Statistics Canada said Friday.
- Huawei Canada will be getting a piece of the US$2 billion that its global Chinese parent will spend over five years to hire more software engineers to make its equipment more secure, resi
- The Competition Bureau says a former executive of Quebec engineering firm Dessau received a 12-month sentence after pleading guilty Thursday in the Court of Quebec to rigging bids for City of Gatin
- The Transportation Safety Board will lend its expertise to uncover the cause of Friday's bus collision at Westboro Station, Ottawa's chief of police confirmed during an update on the inve
- High demand for the “POT” stock symbol has prompted several Canadian stock exchanges to conduct a collective lottery to select which company will be able to use the eye-catching ticker.
- The head of the Transportation Safety Board says the federal government needs to move fast on better national "crashworthiness" standards for buses and other commercial passenger vehicles
- Canopy Growth shares jumped Monday afternoon following news that the Ontario-based cannabis company has been granted a licence by New York state to process and produce hemp, a member of the cannabi
- Businesses and investors are rushing to partner with the 25 winners of the Ontario cannabis retail licence lottery, with offers apparently worth millions of dollars, to be involved in the
- A locally based senior Huawei Canada executive is leaving the Chinese tech company as it faces growing problems around the world.
- As police and transportation experts continue to investigate what caused Friday’s deadly Transitway collision, city officials say the busy transportation corridor has reopened ahead of Mo
- Cabinet shuffle
- Federal lawmakers need to make foreign content providers, such as Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Prime, pay their fair share into producing Canadian content, Canada's broadcast regulator and
- Applicants hoping to open a pot store in Ottawa could find out as early as today if they’ve been awarded one of five licences for eastern Ontario in the province’s lottery.
- Postmedia Network Canada Corp. announced Thursday that Paul Godfrey is stepping down as CEO and will be succeeded by president and chief operating officer Andrew MacLeod.
- Realtor Ash Alles wanted to throw an open house to remember. So, he catered a food truck.
- The Bank of Canada left its trend-setting interest rate unchanged at 1.75 per cent Wednesday as the sharp decline in oil prices temporarily dims its economic outlook for the coming months
- Shoppers Drug Mart's e-commerce platform for medical cannabis launched Tuesday, a month after Health Canada licensed the company to sell the product online.
- An Ottawa roofing company has been fined $80,000 after two of its employees caught fire during a job, leaving one with critical injuries.
- Bank conference
- While Ottawa has no shortage of beautiful and historical places to visit – and may be better known for its bureaucratic hum than a night-time buzz – it has in fact a burgeoning food scene with a th
- The federal government's big-ticket efforts to support high-growth tech firms are offering little for emerging companies that have already outgrown the fledgling startup phase, according
- A new report on the country's highest-paid CEOs is adding evidence to the argument that women face a "double-pane glass ceiling" at the top of Canada's corporate ladder: first in getting
- The federal infrastructure minister says he is looking to connect private backers with some of the country's rural and northern communities to pay for badly needed broadband internet conn
- Real estate agent Shawn Zigelstein remembers a time, just a few years ago, when a printer, scanner and fax machine were the most important tools of his trade.
- Toronto marketing specialist Elaina Falcone laughs as she thinks back to about a year ago when executives at her company started walking around the office having phone conversations on he
- Parliament Hill’s Centre Block building is set for closure next month, putting the capital’s most iconic structure under wraps for more than a decade.
- Ottawa Fury FC's sanctioning battle with CONCACAF appears to be over – for the time being.
- BlackBerry Ltd.'s stock was up in early trading Thursday after the company's third-quarter revenue and profit beat analyst estimates, with growth coming from its software and services bus
- Royal Bank of Canada is denying a report that it was able to read, write and delete users' messages on the social networking website Facebook.
- Ottawa’s annual pace of inflation again surpassed the rest of the country in November, according to a Statistics Canada report released Wednesday.
- Ottawa Fury FC is turning to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for help in its sanctioning battle with CONCACAF.
- The restoration of delivery service guarantees by Canada Post – three weeks after striking postal workers were forced back to work – proves the shipment backlogs Ottawa used to justify le
- Canada has the globe's fifth largest artificial intelligence workforce, but is still far from closing the gender gap in the sector, according to new rankings from the World Economic Forum
- Home sales
- Months after saying it would not cap the number of licences for retail pot shops after cannabis was legalized, the Ontario government has reversed course, saying it will now only be able
- Given the launch of the Canadian Premier League, CONCACAF says it does not see the "exceptional circumstances" needed to sanction Ottawa Fury FC playing in the U.S.-dominated USL.
- Allowing Chinese firm Huawei Technologies to help build Canada's 5G wireless networks could give Beijing backdoor access to revealing data about Canadians, security analysts warn.
- Cannabis producer Hexo Corp.
- The feds’ ethics watchdog says Mark Kristmanson, the head of the National Capital Commission, violated conflict-of-interest rules a dozen times as talks swirl about an Ottawa city council
- Ottawa Fury FC says CONCACAF has moved to block it from playing in the United Soccer League in 2019.
- A top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei has been released on $10 million bail and must agree to wear an electronic tracking device while she is also monitored by two employees of a c
- Ontario's financial watchdog says the province's deficit will rise to $12.3 billion this fiscal year, half a billion more than he predicted before the spring election – but less than the
- Empire update
- Before the arrest of Huawei Technologies' chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last weekend, the Chinese company wasn't a household name in Canada – certainly not in the leag
- The tech executive whose arrest in Vancouver has sparked outrage from China is the well-educated daughter of a wealthy former military man who founded what eventually became one of the wo
- Washington State regulators have rejected Hydro One Ltd.'s proposed takeover of Avista Corp., citing political interference in the Ontario utility by its largest shareholder – the provinc
- Chinese officials are demanding that Canada release Huawei Technologies' chief financial officer, who was arrested in Vancouver over the weekend and faces possible extradition to the Unit
- The Ottawa Senators franchise is among the National Hockey League’s 10 lowest-valued teams, according to an annual ranking by Forbes.
- The Bank of Canada is leaving its interest rate unchanged and says the timing of future hikes will depend on factors such as how long the oil-price slump lasts, how well business investment picks u
- The Conservatives easily hung onto a long-time Tory fiefdom Monday, scoring a convincing victory in a federal byelection held near Ottawa.
- Gary Bettman isn't concerned the development deal that would have included a new downtown arena for the Ottawa Senators is falling apart.
- Initial analysis on the final text of the new North American trade pact Canada signed on Friday is pointing to two changes – one potentially helpful for the auto sector, the other potenti
- More bank earnings
- The original NAFTA deal has landed back atop Donald Trump's hit list, with the U.S.
- The pace of economic growth in Canada slowed in the third quarter as business investment spending moved lower and the growth in household spending slowed, Statistics Canada said Friday.
- Two exiles will return to Ottawa's Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday: star defenceman Erik Karlsson and former super-fan Shaila Anwar, who hasn't been to a game since the Senators traded h
- A Progressive Conservative legislator who publicly denounced Ontario's decision to eliminate the independent office of the French-language services commissioner and a planned French-langu
- The federal government is taking immediate steps to remove some regulatory barriers to trade across the country, hoping to persuade provinces to follow its example.
- The Ottawa Senators fired back at Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson after he told reporters on Wednesday the NHL team wanted the city to pay for an arena as part of the LeBreton Flats redevelopment
- The $60-billion effort to build new warships for Canada's navy is facing another delay after a trade tribunal ordered the federal government to postpone a final contract for the vessels'
- Approaching "baby boomer" retirements will result in a huge transfer of business ownership over the next five to 10 years, but only a small percentage of owners have a formal written succ
- Mail service will resume all across the country at noon Tuesday after the Senate passed legislation ordering an end to five weeks of rotating strikes by postal workers.
- Maybe not pot
- The union representing workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., are promising "one hell of a fight" after the automaker announced it would close the location along wi
- The rate of inflation rose at a faster pace in the capital than across Canada in October according to data released Friday from Statistics Canada.
- Striking Canada Post workers are shutting down the mail in Ottawa today as the House of Commons takes up legislation that would force them back to work.
- Hackers are targeting Toronto-Dominion Bank's internal systems at all hours using cutting-edge techniques, but the bank's head of cybersecurity isn't losing sleep over them – they work fo
- The Trudeau government introduced legislation Thursday that could see striking Canada Post employees forced back to work, but said it would hold off debating the bill to give a special me
- The $60-billion effort to build new warships for Canada's navy has hit another snag, this time in the form of a legal challenge by one of three companies in the competition to design the
- The federal Liberals have come up with a $16-billion answer to Canada's competitiveness concerns.
- The federal government is prepared to order an end to rotating strikes by Canada Post employees if a collective agreement isn't soon reached, Labour Minister Patty Hajdu said Tuesday.
- The federal government will release a fall economic update later today that will seek to close the loop on some of its outstanding mandate commitments, leaving the door open for the Liber
- The Trudeau government signalled Monday it was willing to give Canada Post a couple more days to settle a labour dispute with its employees despite pressure from business to end rotating
- Striking postal workers have rejected a call from Canada Post for a "cooling off" period to accompany mediated talks aimed at ending the labour dispute that has seen mail and packages bac
- George Weston earnings
- An Ontario cannabis retail licence will not be issued to a corporation if more than 9.9 per cent of it is owned or controlled by one or more licensed marijuana producers or their affiliat
- BlackBerry Ltd. has signed a US$1.4-billion deal to acquire U.S. artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company Cylance in what the company called the largest deal in its history.
- Canada Post has issued what it calls a "time-limited" contract offer to its employees in hopes of ending rotating strikes that have created a historic backlog of undelivered parcels.
- The Ontario government has released regulations that will guide the startup of private cannabis stores on April 1.
- Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth Corp.'s shares fell more than 10 per cent after the cannabis producer reported a wider quarterly loss and revenue slowdown as operating expenses soared ahead of Can
- A full-scale trade deal between Canada and China is possible even as Canada remains open to striking smaller sector-by-sector agreements, says International Trade Minister Jim Carr.
- Pot earnings
- Recipe Unlimited Corp. earned $23.8 million in its latest quarter, up from $21.2 million a year ago.
- Bombardier Inc. says it's cutting about 5,000 jobs across the organization over the next 12 to 18 months as part of a new restructuring plan.
- A local newspaper said Wednesday it has no intention of taking down a secretly recorded video of several Ottawa Senators players despite a legal notice insisting leaving it online violate
- Canadians are inspecting the fresh U.S. political landscape following midterm election results that many believe have added fresh trade-related uncertainty.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vaunted his government's new legislation on pay equity at a conference of female business leaders in Montreal on Monday, and was pressed about how Canada wil
- Lowe's Companies Inc. says it plans to close 31 Canadian stores and other locations as part of a plan to focus on its most profitable operations.
- Poloz in the UK
- A series of proposed class-action lawsuits launched against major insurance companies in Ontario claim the firms have been shortchanging auto-accident victims for years by breaking rules
- News that Molson Coors expects to bring cannabis-infused beverages to the Canadian market as early as next year sent shares of Gatineau-based marijuana producer Hexo – the brewing giant’s
- Canada Post employees are walking off the job in Ottawa and Arnprior-Renfrew this morning as the postal union’s wave of rotating strikes hits the capital.
- Air Canada saw its third-quarter profit drop compared with a year ago amid rising fuel prices as operating revenue climbed 11 per cent.
- Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz wants Canadians to get used to the idea of three per cent interest rates as the new normal, now that the era of rock-bottom borrowing costs is gradua
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. reported a third-quarter profit of $45.9 million, down from a profit of $135.9 million in the same quarter last year amid rising fuel prices.
- When Vanessa Witkowski and her husband were tasked with selling his grandmother's home, they both knew they didn't want to do it the traditional way.
- Corporate scorecard
- The Ontario government is coming under fire for delays in the delivery of legal cannabis in the province, with critics suggesting consumers could revert back to the black market.
- Shopify (
- The Bank of Canada hiked its trend-setting interest rate Wednesday as the resilient economy hums along and a big source of trade uncertainty is finally out of the way.
- Ontario will cap minimum wage at $14 an hour until fall 2020 as part of a rollback of labour reforms introduced by the previous Liberal regime, the Progressive Conservative government ann
- Small businesses called for a speedy end to rotating walkouts launched Monday in four cities by Canada Post employees, citing concern that a prolonged strike could chew into their profits ahead of
- When the future residents of Toronto's Line 5 condo building order home delivery of groceries or a bite from Uber Eats or Foodora, there will be no need to rush home to ensure their food
- Powering pot sales
- The country's real estate market may be taking a breather, but a new survey suggests the vast majority of recent homebuyers are maxing out their budgets to purchase their first homes.
- Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is the target of a test legal case that could prompt politicians all across the country to reconsider their use of social media.
- Canada needs to spend $83 million over the next 10 years just to get its official residences – including 24 Sussex Drive – into half-decent shape.
- The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has given strike notice to Canada Post that workers could walk off the job as early as next week.
- Cannabis was "flying off the shelves" in brick-and-mortar outlets and online stores Wednesday across the country as Canadians looked to make their first-ever legal purchase of recreational pot and
- More than half of Canadian homeowners recently surveyed say they would be less likely to consider a property if they knew cannabis had been grown inside, according to a poll released Tuesday.
- Canopy Growth Corp. has signed a deal to buy Ebbu Inc., a Colorado-based hemp researcher, in a stock-and-cash deal worth more than $425 million.
- In less than three months, the centrepiece on Parliament Hill will go dark for at least a decade.
- Corporate outlook The Bank of Canada releases its latest business outlook survey and senior loan officer survey on Monday.
- WestJet Airlines Ltd.
- A new study suggests federal and provincial governments can help ease some of the frustrations of travellers and grow the country's air transport sector by reducing taxes and fees imposed
- Working in Canada's legal pot industry won't deprive you of a Disney World holiday but the U.S.
- When Shopify Inc.
- Federal officials have quietly probed possible new workplace rules for employees who show up to work high after cannabis is legalized next week, newly released documents show.
- Homeowner groups need to quickly establish rules for marijuana growing and consumption in an effort to nip any problems in the bud, say lawyers who specialize in property law.
- A closely watched address by Canada's innovation minister, the release of new building permits data and a fresh look at the country's housing market are among the events expected to make headlines in…
- As recreational marijuana legalization looms, some industry insiders are predicting a hot niche in the market for less potent products.
- Canada Post issued wide-ranging new contract offers to its employees Wednesday in the hope of preventing a work stoppage at the Crown corporation ahead of the busy holiday online shopping
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed Tuesday to scrap labour reform legislation from the previous Liberal regime that raised the province's minimum wage and introduced a range of other worker
- Reaction from Canadian business groups to the terms of a renegotiated trade pact between Canada, the U.S.
- A new era in North American free trade dawned in the dead of night Sunday as a 14-month NAFTA modernization effort between Canada, the U.S.
- Jobs numbers Statistics Canada will release job numbers for September on Friday.
- Shopify Inc.
- Enbridge Gas Distribution Ltd. says its typical Ontario residential customer's natural gas bill will go down about $29 a year.
- Despite new restrictions on Ontario pot producers’ retail opportunities, Ottawa-area cannabis firms are forging ahead with their sales strategies – including announcing the first possible dispensar
- Ottawa-area pot producer Canopy Growth Corp. says its shareholders have approved a $5-billion investment in the cannabis company by Constellation Brands Inc.
- Canada has been trying to grow its innovation sector for decades and prove that it can compete on the world's stage, but Shopify's cofounder believes the country shouldn't be too quick to
- Ontario's Progressive Conservatives vowed to address the province's ballooning debt and deficit without slashing jobs after a review of government finances revealed spending had grown dra
- With an eye on future lunar exploration, Canada's space agency is calling on companies to present their ideas for everything from moon-rover power systems to innovative mineral prospectin
- Empire Co.
- BoC speech Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz gives a speech to Atlantic Provinces Economic Council and Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce on Thursday evening.
- Officials are warning people in the Ottawa area to brace for days without power in the wake of a tornado that ripped through the region yesterday afternoon.
- Months after cancelling hundreds of renewable energy contracts, the Ontario government introduced legislation Thursday to scrap a law that aimed to bolster the province's green energy ind
- The company that owns the Toronto Star newspaper has signed a deal to buy iPolitics Inc., an Ottawa-based digital political news service.
- The federal government insists pot legalization will help the country snuff out crime – but internally it's wondering what will become of the fuzzy world of illegal online weed transactio
- The CEOs of three of Canada's major grocery chains doubled down on their expectation that food prices will soon rise at their stores.
- Clearly in a rebuilding mode on the ice following last week’s blockbuster trade of star defenceman Erik Karlsson, the Ottawa Senators also continued their front office overhaul Monday, hiring a vet
- The House is back The House of Commons resumes sitting on Monday.
- Canada's largest licensed pot producer says a work stoppage at Canada Post could leave many of its customers without their medications, resulting in some looking for unregulated, black ma
- Unionized staff at the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun have voted in favour of the latest contract offer from Postmedia Inc., averting a potential lockout.
- Canada's labour minister called on Canada Post and its biggest union Tuesday to continue bargaining with the help of a third party after postal workers across the country voted in favour
- Golf is at war with itself: on one side, the tucked-in, collars-and-socks traditionalists, their ranks split over whether to surrender or stand up against the advancing high-tech hordes o
- Roots earnings Roots Corp. releases and discusses second-quarter results on Wednesday.
- Postmedia Network Inc. has told Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun staff that it will lock out union employees starting Monday if they reject or refuse to vote on its final contract offer.
- The Bank of Canada's decision to leave its interest rate unchanged Wednesday could be just a brief pause that comes as it carefully follows the unpredictable twists in the country's trade
- Latest job numbers Statistics Canada releases the labour force survey for August on Friday.
- Longtime marijuana advocate Neev Tapiero is ready for the cannabis-driven tourists to come, and he's not waiting for legalization to roll out the welcome mat.
- A court has overturned the federal government’s approval of the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, halting construction on the project and sending it back to the review phase
- The fresh round of U.S.-Canada negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement generated hopeful signals from both camps Wednesday that a deal could be struck by the end of the we
- Canada's postal service built a massive loss into its books Tuesday in anticipation of the potential cost of settling a pay equity dispute with its biggest union.
- Canada will rejoin face-to-face negotiations with the United States and Mexico on Tuesday after the two continental partners reached a bilateral deal that raised fresh concerns about the
- George Burger says his company, VMedia, can't get internet service into customer buildings and homes the way it once did because copper wiring that the Toronto-based internet service prov
- More beats for banks? Bank of Montreal, Scotiabank, TD Bank and National Bank are set to report their third-quarter results this week.
- The Supreme Court of Canada's refusal to hear an appeal from the country's largest real estate board enables its member real estate agents to publish home sales data on their websites, se
- WestJet Airlines is cancelling service between Montreal and Quebec City and cutting back on flights across its network as it reduces capacity to meet consumer demand while also trying to
- Ottawa Senators assistant general manager Randy Lee has resigned amid harassment accusations, marking another key hole to fill for the local team as it attempts to rebuild its executive r
- An Air Canada-led consortium has reached a deal to acquire Aimia Inc.'s Aeroplan loyalty program, easing customer concerns but raising questions around the price tag and what the deal aug
- Sticker shock and a limited selection are two main factors that discourage more Canadians from buying an electric vehicle, a new survey of car sales representatives suggests – two issues
- The federal government says it will review Constellation Brand Inc.'s proposed $5 billion investment in Canopy Growth Corp.
- The once meat-dominated world of fast-food and casual restaurants is starting to cater to the one-in-ten Canadian diners who identify as vegetarian or vegan by adding an increasing array
- Betting on the banks Royal Bank of Canada is the first lender to report its fiscal third-quarter results on Wednesday, and most analysts are expecting "solid" growth a
- Ottawa’s annual inflation rate hit 3.2 per cent in July, pushing past already-surging national figures, according to Statistics Canada.
- The Canadian arm of Tesla, Inc., is taking the Ontario government to court, claiming it has been treated unfairly in the cancellation of a program providing rebates to residents who bough
- The head of Ottawa-area pot firm Canopy Growth is talking more aggressively about expansion in the United States, if and when the drug becomes legal there, a day after the cannabis producer announc
- Bell Media has signed a new long-term agreement that will see it become the exclusive Canadian broadcaster for new programming from Vice Media network Viceland.
- Second Cup Ltd. says it is actively reviewing locations in Ontario for potential conversion to cannabis retail stores in light of policy changes in the province.
- Shopify is banning the sale of some firearms and their related parts through its platform.
- The federal government extended an olive branch of sorts to Donald Trump's tough-on-trade White House on Tuesday as it began exploring how best to address industry concerns that U.S.
- Alcohol giant Constellation Brands will invest $5 billion in Canopy Growth Corp.
- Recreational cannabis will be sold online in Ontario when legalized this fall and in private retail stores across the province early next year, the government announced Monday, reversing
- Ontario's Progressive Conservative government says the chair of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario will step down at the end of the month after less than a year in the job.
- Pot for puppers
- Major credit card companies have struck an agreement with the federal government to trim the fees they charge to merchants in a move the Liberals hope will provide a boost to small busine
- Canadian pets are a few steps closer to getting their paws on pot-based medical treatments in Canada as more cannabis companies research marijuana's efficacy for companion animals.
- Montreal-based engineering firm WSP Global Inc.
- Ontario launched its buck-a-beer plan Tuesday by offering "non-financial incentives" to brewers who sell their beer for $1, a move some Ottawa craft brewers are labelling as unrealistic.
- Canada can easily replace the oil it imports from Saudi Arabia should relations with the Middle Eastern kingdom deteriorate to the point that trade in crude is halted, says an energy econ
- Canada will review the joint vehicle emissions standards it has with the United States before it decides what to do about the U.S.'s plan to weaken those standards in the coming years.
- Manulife earnings Manulife Financial releases second-quarter results on Wednesday.
- Aimia Inc.
- Second-quarter subscriber growth in Bell Canada's three main services beat analyst estimates, led by an 18-year high in new wireless subscribers, but parent company BCE Inc.
- An internal federal analysis foresees a stretch of job-market moderation in Canada's near future following an extended period of healthy employment growth – an economic shift expected to
- Months of heated relations with a group of rebellious Tim Hortons franchisees don't appear to be hurting its parent company's bottom line.
- Airline passengers should expect to face higher fares later this year to compensate for rising fuel costs that contributed to WestJet Airlines posting its first quarterly loss in 13 years
- Molson Coors Canada, the business arm of Molson Coors Brewing Co., says it has entered into a joint venture to develop non-alcoholic, cannabis-infused beverages.
- Anyone renting an Airbnb listing in the nation's capital will have to start paying a four-per-cent hotel tax starting today.
- Younger, middle-income households will be among those that feel the biggest financial sting from the Bank of Canada's gradual move towards higher interest rates, says a newly released fed
- None of Canada's TSX 60 companies were headed by a woman and two-thirds did not include a single woman among top earners during their latest fiscal year, reveals a Canadian Press analysis
- The telecommuting revolution envisioned by futurists, in which vast numbers of workers eschew their daily commute in favour of working remotely from home, never quite turned out as predic
- RBI earnings Restaurant Brands International Inc., the parent company of Burger King and Tim Hortons, discusses second-quarter results on Wednesday. A group of U.S.
- The Ontario government will reportedly allow private stores to sell marijuana once recreational cannabis becomes legal on Oct.
- Canadians will likely have to pay more for certain food items soon as grocers grapple with the impact of new tariffs in an ongoing trade war and other pressures, said Loblaw Companies Ltd
- A Canadian startup company has raised $62 million from Telus Ventures and other major backers to expand its digital employee health benefits business with new offices in San Francisco, Ne
- The federal government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing to quickly flip the project to another private-sector buyer.
- Aecon earnings Aecon Group Inc. releases second-quarter results after markets close on Thursday.
- The price of consumer goods in Canada’s capital inched upwards last month, mirroring a national trend, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
- George Kottas owns 15 restaurants in the Greater Toronto Area, but almost none of them have a dining room or takeout counter, and if you wandered into most, you'd be hard-pressed to find
- Algonquin College says it is advising students and alumni that hackers have infiltrated a server infected with malware.
- Ontario's new Progressive Conservative government introduced legislation on Monday that would give it sweeping new powers over executive compensation at Hydro One.
- Need for speed Rogers Communications Inc. discusses second-quarter results on Thursday. Rogers and rival BCE Inc.
- Ontario's new Progressive Conservative government vowed Thursday to bring in sweeping changes meant to restore public trust in the province in a throne speech that played up promises made
- Some Canadians craving a doughnut or double-double but strapped for time can now have Tim Hortons food brought to them as the national chain started testing delivery this week.
- The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday in an economy that it predicts will remain resilient even as it faces an even bigger bite from deepening trade tensions.
- Vancouver Starbucks locations will be the first in Canada to serve drinks without plastic straws as it works to eliminate the product from all its stores by 2020, the company announced th
- Convenience store catch-up Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. releases fourth-quarter and year-end results after markets close on Monday.
- Ottawa-area pot producer Canopy Growth Corp.
- The Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group has announced the acquisition of a Minnesota-based company that produces theatrical shows, exhibits, cruise ship activities and outdoor events.
- The federal government's new 10-per-cent tariff on American whiskey could force bourbon aficionados to shell out more for a drink, prompting some to switch to a domestic blend, but Canadi
- A scorching heat wave has kept crowds on Parliament Hill smaller than usual for Canada Day festivities in the nation's capital.
- One, two, three, four, I declare a trade war Canada's $16.6-billion worth of retaliatory tariffs take effect Sunday on dozens of U.S.
- When Sen. Patrick Toomey looks at the future of the ketchup market in his home state of Pennsylvania, he sees real blood on the floor.
- Consumers will see "fewer, better" specialty TV channels and more targeted advertising from Corus Entertainment, company executives said this week as they explained their plan for rebuild
- Foreign buyers might make up a small sliver of Canada's biggest real estate markets, but homebuyers in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal still believe they are heavily influencing housing a
- Ottawa-area pot producer Canopy Growth Corp.
- The Competition Bureau says criminal charges have been laid against four people who allegedly conspired to rig bids for 21 City of Gatineau infrastructure contracts between 2004 and 2008.
- Finance ministers from across the country weighed the consequences this week of Canada's intensifying trade dispute with the United States as the federal government worked to finalize det
- World Cup matches and an Olympic Games would put Canada front and centre in the sports world in 2026.
- Bonnie Hallman of Winnipeg had been booked to board a Disney cruise next summer to bask in the untamed wilderness of Alaska, which she had longed to see since flipping through copies of t
- Officials are promising shorter queue times for Canada Day festivities in the nation's capital this year, but heavy security measures will once again force revellers to endure enhanced sc
- High times Licensed marijuana producer Canopy Growth Corp. discusses fourth-quarter and year-end results on Wednesday.
- Cities, provinces and territories building new roads, bridges, water and transit systems funded with federal dollars will have to let Indigenous Peoples, veterans and recent immigrants have a hand
- BlackBerry Ltd. shares sank almost 10 per cent to their lowest levels in weeks on Friday, despite beating analysts' estimates and reporting a solid start to its 2019 financial year.
- Solar industry participants say they expect more investment to flow to Alberta and the United States in the wake of premier-elect Doug Ford's vow to axe Ontario's cap-and-trade system and
- Competition is heating up for Canada's most price-sensitive travellers as WestJet Airlines gears up to launch the country's second ultra-low cost airline Wednesday.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says recreational marijuana will be legal in Canada as of Oct. 17.
- Employees with Quebec's liquor authority are threatening to strike ahead of the province's popular Fete nationale holiday, also known as St-Jean-Baptiste day.
- Artificial intelligence could give internet giants like Facebook and Amazon even more power to reshape the Canadian economy, threatening the viability of domestic businesses, researchers warn.
- Reading the BoC tea leaves Deputy Bank of Canada governor Lynn Patterson will speak before the Investment Industry Association of Canada on interest-rate benchmarks on
- Beer brewed with marijuana, baking mixes concocted to bring out the unique flavours of cannabis oil and good, old-fashioned pot cookies: Canadian companies are creating them all, but it's
- Parliament Hill's iconic Centre Block won't be shutting down this summer, delaying the start of a badly needed renovation until at least next year.
- Transat AT Inc.
- An Ottawa legislator could become the interim leader of Ontario's Liberals, who suffered a massive defeat in last week's provincial election.
- Canadian retailer Roots Corp.
- The World Cup is coming to Canada.
- The National Arts Centre has found a new president and CEO in its orchestra director.
- U.S.
- Starbucks closed about 1,100 Canadian locations for anti-bias training Monday afternoon in a bid to make its stores more inclusive after the April arrest of two black men at one of its Ph
- Tea party DavidsTea reports its first-quarter results Monday and holds its annual meeting on Thursday, when shareholders will weigh in on a proxy battle for board cont
- A generation after Richard Nixon called Justin Trudeau's father an "asshole," Donald Trump's administration broke new ground in American political trash talk Sunday when a presidential ad
- Canada's government will auction key wireless spectrum for fifth-generation mobile networks in 2020, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Wednesday.
- Donald Trump's top economic adviser dismissed differences over tariffs as a "family quarrel" Wednesday as reports of a testy phone call between the president and Prime Minister Justin Tru
- Cannabis industry titans will gather in New Brunswick next week to discuss how to market pot in a competitive legal marketplace, and other issues raised by the dawn of government-run weed.
- Canadians who currently use cannabis expect to buy nearly two-thirds of their pot from legal retailers once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, a new survey suggests.
- As one week packed with major economic and political developments comes to a close, another begins for the Trudeau government.
- The Trudeau Liberals have laid out the environmental test that new transit and water systems will have to go through in the hope cities and provinces choose greener construction options.
- The Bank of Nova Scotia made a big play to expand its customer base on Thursday with a deal to acquire Ottawa-based financial adviser MD Financial Management for $2.5 billion.
- Sports commentary, Food Network Canada programming and the iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards will be livestreaming soon on Canadian Twitter feeds.
- Justin Trudeau drew the ire of Donald Trump late Thursday, after warning of a new turning point in Canada-U.S. relations when the U.S.
- Canada has quietly paid another $54 million toward development of the F-35 stealth fighter, bringing its total investment in the controversial project to roughly a half a billion dollars
- The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate target on hold Wednesday, but noted the Canadian economy was a little stronger than expected in the first quarter, raising expectations that
- Indigo Books & Music Inc. says it earned $21.8 million last year in an improvement from a year earlier but below analyst expectations.
- The federal Liberal government has no plans to drag Canada permanently into the pipeline business, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Tuesday as he unveiled a $4.5-billion plan to buy the
- Yasir Naqvi is running for re-election in what's widely considered a Liberal safe seat, but he says he's never seen so much uncertainty among voters at the door who tell him they're still
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is nixing the idea of Quebecers filing one tax return that would be administered by the province.
- Two of Canada's biggest banks warned Monday that "fraudsters" may have accessed certain personal and financial information of up to 90,000 customers.
- The president and CEO of WestJet says the threat of a strike by its pilots is over.
- Parade of bank earnings continues Three more of Canada's big banks report second-quarter earnings: Scotiabank comes out on Tuesday followed by Bank of Montreal and Nat
- The federal government rejected the Chinese takeover of a Toronto-based construction firm on national security grounds because it would have given Beijing access to a trove of sensitive d
- The federal government has blocked the proposed $1.5-billion takeover of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese state-owned company for reasons of national security.
- The government of Canada has been increasing its use of paid Facebook advertisements over the last three years, spending tens of millions of dollars on boosted posts, videos and ad campai
- CIBC reported better-than-expected results for its second quarter with a nearly 25 per cent increase in net income compared with a year ago.
- Based on recent announcements by the likes of Facebook, Live Nation and a U.K.
- What's next for NAFTA? Negotiators for Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Motorists in many parts of Canada are expected to see rising gasoline prices as they fire up their vehicles for road adventures on the Victoria Day long weekend.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will work the room at a business luncheon in Manhattan today on the merits of free trade and global economic co-operation, just as word starts to sink in that efforts
- Somewhat reluctantly, Athar Afzal finally gave up on BlackBerry earlier this year.
- A federal plan to take a bite out of corporate crime by allowing prosecutors to suspend criminal charges against companies has potential downsides, an internal analysis says – including t
- TD Bank is joining a rival bank in offering a highly discounted variable mortgage rate as competition among Canada's biggest lenders heats up.
- The cost of buying the Jean Coutu Group was high but the pill wasn't too difficult to swallow because it will generate a good return on the investment, Metro Inc.
- Buyers in Canada's most overheated real estate markets paid an average of $229,000 extra per home between 2007 and 2016 because of regulations making it difficult for builders to construct more sin
- The first woman to take the helm of A&W Food Services of Canada Inc.
- DHX's doldrums Children's entertainment company DHX Media Ltd. discusses third-quarter results on Monday.
- WestJet pilots have committed to not disrupting passenger travel plans over the Victoria Day long weekend despite voting overwhelmingly to give its union a strike mandate.
- Telus Corp.
- Pension fund manager OMERS says it has signed an agreement to acquire British-based recruiting firm Alexander Mann Solutions in a deal valued at about $1.4 billion.
- The bar is now higher for homebuyers to qualify for mortgages in Canada after the central bank raised a key metric used in stress tests that determine borrowers' eligibility.
- Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. has signed a deal to buy Helly Hansen, a maker of sportswear and workwear based in Norway, for $985 million.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants Canada to have "a little more swagger" in promoting homegrown innovations.
- The CEO of WestJet Airlines Ltd.
- European financial technology company TransferWise is planning a Canadian launch next year for its borderless debit card, which allows users to hold b
- Via Rail had its best performance in a decade during Canada's sesquicentennial year, increasing its ridership by more than 10 per cent to 4.4 million passengers, the passenger railway sai
- Years of federal bureaucratic delay may cost the North millions of dollars in investment in an emerging high-tech industry.
- Cleared to strike? WestJet discusses first-quarter results on Tuesday.
- The Canada Post Group of Companies reported a profit of $144 million for 2017, up from $81 million in 2016, as its parcel business grew amid the popularity of online shopping.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't backing down from his government's much-maligned timeline for legalizing marijuana, despite a growing chorus of calls from senators, Indigenous leaders and other
- Canada's largest grocer plans to "blanket the country" with online grocery services this year.
- Molson Coors Brewing Co. had its worst trading day in more than a decade after the company widely missed expectations largely due to weakness in the United States.
- Canadians have amassed a $2-trillion mountain of household debt that's casting a big shadow over the timing of the Bank of Canada's next interest rate hike, governor Stephen Poloz said in
- The Canadian economy, which contracted to start the year, bounced back in February, led by gains in the mining and oil and gas extraction sector.
- Canadians celebrating the onset of summer driving season have been dismayed by another spring phenomenon – rising gasoline prices across the country.
- Canada's hotels are asking the federal Liberal government to take a heavier hand with online rental services like Airbnb and force the platforms to collect and remit sales tax.
- Canada's two largest airlines say artificial intelligence can be a game-changer for aviation by helping to boost revenues, pare costs and provide passengers with a more personalized trave
- Air Canada earnings Air Canada discusses first-quarter results on Monday.
- The federal government has unveiled new measures on intellectual property as it seeks to improve Canada's performance in a critical area of the increasingly important ideas-based economy.
- Ford's decision to discontinue almost all of its car models in North America within two years will leave its Canadian operations intact, since they are focused mainly on sport utility veh
- Metro Inc.
- The Trudeau government is on track to run deficits nearly $8 billion deeper than expected over the next two years, the federal budget watchdog said Monday in a new report.
- Toys "R" Us's Canadian operations have found a safety net months after the retailer's demise in the U.S. and overseas.
- Canada's central bank governor says inflation will likely hover just above the historic target of two per cent for this entire year, but he's comfortable with that because the longer-term trendline
- Trans Mountain troubles B.C.
- Rogers Communications Inc. saw its first-quarter profit soar from the same time last year as its wireless division experienced a growth spurt that exceeded analyst estimates.
- The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the constitutionality of a New Brunswick law that ensnared a man who brought home a trunkload of beer and liquor from neighbouring Quebec.
- A key ratings agency has downgraded its outlook on Ontario's finances to "negative" from "stable" in light of the Liberal government's plan to run six consecutive multibillion-dollar defi
- The International Monetary Fund projects moderate economic growth for Canada this year and next, albeit at a rate lower than last year's and significantly slower than in the United States
- The Bank of Canada is maintaining its trend-setting interest rate as its careful assessment of the timing of future hikes continues amid a backdrop of moderating growth.
- The death of the password could be upon us.
- Rogers Communications Inc.
- Leadership at a new federal infrastructure financing agency has been told to largely avoid the riskiest of investment options to help private companies make projects a reality and deliver
- Interest rate watch The Bank of Canada will announce its latest interest rate decision on Wednesday.
- Sexual harassment is far more prevalent in Canadian workplaces than company executives would like to believe, a new report says.
- The federal government is looking into concerns raised by a dissident group of Tim Hortons franchisees about the potential violation of terms the federal government placed on a deal that
- Ottawa’s National Access Cannabis is staking its claim to Western Canada’s retail cannabis market with the help of coffee shop Second Cup.
- A $17-million interactive digital media tax credit from the Ontario government helped pare Postmedia Network Canada Corp.'s second-quarter net loss to $1.3 million from a loss of $28.5 million a ye
- The Hydropothecary Corp.'s share price closed up 13 per cent Wednesday after the company said it had struck a cannabis supply deal with the Societe des alcools du Quebec.
- Eugene Melnyk's first attempt at clearing the air with Ottawa Senators fans had some rocky moments this week.
- A group representing about half of Canada's Tim Hortons franchisees has vowed to do everything in its power to assist an outs
- Canadian firms remain upbeat about future sales, business investment and hiring even as the country faces stubborn economic uncertainties from outside its borders, a recent Bank of Canada
- Ontario's real estate agents want stronger rules to protect home buyers from purchasing a former marijuana grow-op – a situation they say will increase once cannabis is legalized this yea
- When two Edmonton men started bottling and selling air from Banff and Lake Louise, Alta., some people thought it was a farce, but about four years later the duo's expanded their line to a
- Still optimistic? The Bank of Canada releases the Business Outlook Survey on Monday.
- A new survey suggests Tim Hortons has fallen out of favour with Canadians, plummeting 25 points and dropping more than 40 spots from 2017 in an annual corporate reputation ranking.
- Shares of Corus Entertainment Inc. soared in trading Thursday after the company beat expectations as it reported a second-quarter profit of $40 million.
- The federal government could give revenues from a federally imposed carbon tax directly back to Ontario residents instead of the provincial government if whoever is elected in the spring
- New Chinese retaliatory tariffs on U.S.
- The Ontario government is pushing back against New York State's Buy American law by limiting public sector procurement with suppliers in that state.
- Transcontinental Inc.
- U.S. wireless providers are trumpeting the virtues of their soon-to-be-unveiled 5G networks, but in Canada, the Big Three telecoms are sitting back and staying mum.
- State of the relationship U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft delivers a speech on "Future Directions for the Canada/U.S. Alliance" in Toronto on Monday.
- When Daniel Beauchamp was hunting for a new car, he skipped trips to dealerships by using virtual and augmented reality to test vehicles from a makeshift driver's seat he set up in his ho
- As it braces to fight for re-election this spring, Ontario's Liberal government has rolled out a spending package that targets nearly every demographic while plunging the province back in
- BlackBerry Ltd.'s revenue and adjusted earnings came in above analyst estimates in its fourth quarter, as all three of the company's main software divisions showed growth.
- There's growing chatter in North America about adopting right-to-disconnect laws to free workers from being tethered to their phones around the clock, but some labour experts say that whi
- Tim Hortons plans to renovate most of its Canadian restaurants over the next several years in what some franchisees say is an
- Canada could soon have its first customs facilities inside the United States, says an American official who cites Florida and Arizona as potential sites for pilot projects in ongoing expe
- Nearly three-quarters of Canadian Facebook users say they will make at least some change to how they use the social media platform in the wake of a data mining scandal.
- A year into its effort to help equip youth for the rapidly evolving workforce, one of the country's largest banks says enhancing young Canadians' human skills will be critical in navigating the mac
- G7 get-together Employment Minister Patty Hajdu and Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains host the Meeting of Employment and Innovation Ministers of the G7 in Montreal on Tuesday.
- Consumers who yearn for more alternatives to Canada's large wireless carriers will have to wait longer, but in the meantime the CRTC has ordered the Big Three to offer consumers the optio
- Many Canadians are pledging to delete their Facebook accounts as part of an online campaign encouraging people to permanently log off the site amid mounting concerns that the social media
- The United States has confirmed a breakthrough in the NAFTA negotiations unlocking a major irritant involving automobiles, while stressing that a few remaining disagreements need to be se
- Royal Bank is opening up select bits of its data to external software developers in a bid to foster innovation and create new tools for consumers.
- BlackBerry Ltd. is launching a new way to enhance the security of commonly-used Microsoft Corp.
- When fans score tickets for events at the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg in the future, they might notice the absence of a familiar feature: that ubiquitous zebra-styled inventory tr
- Nestled inside Canopy Growth Corp.'s sprawling marijuana facility outside Ottawa is a laboratory where technicians in white lab coats and h
- The future, revealed Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains will announce a "major investment" in 5G technology on Monday.
- BlackBerry Ltd. is extending executive chairman and chief executive John Chen's contract through to November 2023.
- Canada's share of the fastest growing industry in the world has been shrinking over the last decade and a new report says it's time to step it up or miss out on a trillion-dollar opportun
- Canadians are counting down to the legalization of recreational marijuana this summer, but industry players are already racing to get ahead in a potentially more lucrative market segment
- The CEO of a California-based toy company says he is bidding for the Canadian operations of Toys "R" Us Inc., the U.S.
- When a partial laptop ban at his Halifax cafe led to miffed patrons and headaches for staff, owner Sean Gallagher decided to do something more drastic to enforce his no-screen rule: a res
- The chief executives of Canada's five biggest banks collectively earned roughly $53.6 million in the latest fiscal year, up more than seven per cent from a year earlier.
- The federal government's steps to amass more public debt have helped Canadians avoid an even faster build-up of their personal debt loads, even though such household burdens have still ma
- International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is rolling out a new investment agency designed to promote Canada as a destination for investors.
- Competition Bureau officials searched the Toronto offices of Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and Torstar Corp.
- Two of Canada's biggest internet service providers are preparing to increase their monthly subscriber prices, a move they say is justified by the investments they're making in their netwo
- Looking for the next rate signal Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz speaks at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University on Tuesday.
- Air Canada is looking to cut operating costs and defend against competition from upstart low-cost competitors by adding more planes to its Rouge fleet and flying them on regional routes w
- Google and Facebook continue to be the juggernauts that dominate how Canadians use th
- Canada appears to have dodged a protectionist bullet, as one of only two countries to receive a provisional exemption from steel and aluminum tariffs set to rip into America's trading relationships
- Canada is expected to announce Friday the start of formal free trade negotiations with the four-country South American trade bloc known as Mercosur.
- Canada's largest grocer believes Canadians are ready to cook with crickets and is bringing the alternative protein ingredient to grocery shelves under its President's Choice label.
- The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate target on hold Wednesday as it pointed to a climate of broadening, important unknowns around trade.
- BlackBerry Ltd. is taking Facebook Inc. and its WhatsApp and Instagram subsidiaries to court in California, alleging they've infringed on several U.S.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke by phone with President Donald Trump on a day the United States revealed it might use the threat of tariffs as a negotiating tactic to force a quick NAFTA deal.
- The Trump administration is coming under political pressure at home to exclude Canada from global tariffs on steel and aluminum, and while stating its preference for holding firm it's lea
- Trade-war fears U.S. President Donald Trump has promised details on his proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the United States this week.
- Canada's biggest banks wrapped up another solid quarter of better-than-expected results, shrugging off hefty writedowns and worries about the domestic housing market with robust growth be
- The United States will impose wide-ranging tariffs on steel and aluminum, President Donald Trump declared Thursday, prompting allies to fume, stock markets to fall and analysts to fret ab
- The days of answering your doorbell to find someone hawking duct-cleaning services or a new furnace will be over for Ontarians when a new law comes into effect on Thursday, but it won't s
- The federal budget might have been sold on its female-friendly features, but business experts say it still falls short in solving the wage gap because the formula it uses to calculate emp
- An association representing 70 per cent of Tim Hortons franchisees is threatening its parent company with legal action after
- The Liberal government moved to tighten the tax rules for small businesses in the federal budget Tuesday as it fine-tuned the changes that prompted an uproar last year.
- Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled a federal budget Tuesday that charts a clear course for the Liberals to the 2019 election, an aspirational road map designed to ensure that no woman,
- International growth continues to be a boon for Canadian lenders as Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal's first-quarter earnings beat expectations, helped by brisk business in Latin
- Gender equality and a national pharmacare plan are expected to be two of the cornerstones of the federal budget when it is presented in the House of Commons Tuesday afternoon by Finance M
- Never-ending NAFTA: The seventh round of North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations commence in Mexico City on Monday, where fallout from the recently signed Trans-
- Loblaw Companies Ltd.
- The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce set the tone for banks' earnings season with a dividend hike and better-than-expected first-quarter net income, helped by a boost in earnings in its
- Quebec restaurants that do not have a bar licence such as Montreal's Ye Olde Orchard must sell a bowl of pasta or other small plates to patrons who just want to grab a pint of beer.
- With roughly three months before a spring election, Ontario's governing Liberals are using the last legislative session to push back against any state that adopts Buy American provisions,
- Some of India's biggest companies say they will invest more than $250 million in Canada, in everything from pulp mills to pharmaceuticals and the IT sector.
- Labour groups and some politicians are pushing to repeal a bylaw that allows retailers north of Toronto to stay open on holidays such as Family Day.
- Bread battle fallout Loblaw Co. Ltd. releases fourth-quarter and year-end results on Thursday.
- Canadian Tire Corp. plans to acquire more brands into its fold this year, the company said as its fourth-quarter results topped expectations.
- The federal government named the five winning bids Thursday of its high-tech "superclusters" sweepstakes that will divvy up $950 million of public funding in hope of stoking economic grow
- Shopify Inc. reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter as its revenue jumped 71 per cent compared with a year ago.
- A new report is adding to the growing pressure on governments to use their multibillion-dollar buying power to help support businesses run by women – and all signs suggest the Liberal gov
- Ottawa-area licensed marijuana producer Canopy Growth Corp.
- Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the federal government's next budget on Feb. 27 as the country faces persistent uncertainty around trade and competitiveness.
- President Donald Trump is complaining about Canadian trade practices while threatening some as-yet-undefined international tax that has revived fears he might be contemplating new America
- Bryan Adams, Jethro Tull, Beck and the Foo Fighters are some of the headliners signed up to perform over 10 days in July at RBC Bluesfest in Ottawa.
- Tim Hortons restaurants recorded a fifth consecutive quarter of sluggish sales, while its parent company Restaurant Brands International Inc.
- Clarity at TMX
- The Ontario government has inked a deal to use Shopify's e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the
- A top Bank of Canada official is warning about the risks related to the growing dominance of a handful of big players in the digital economy and, more specifically, their tightening grip over user
- Justin Trudeau made his prime ministerial pitch to Silicon Valley on Thursday, and had a chance to push Toronto specifically as a place for Amazon's second headquarters during a private meeting wit
- Canaccord Genuity's third-quarter earnings got a major lift from a flurry of deals in the Canadian cannabis sector, which helped the investment bank see its net income rise more than 500 per cent y
- The employee roll at Ben Zifkin's Toronto-based startup is set to double over the coming year to handle the increase in users of his free service, a business-based social network known as Hubba.
- The Trudeau government insists it's on track to legalize recreational pot in July – but whether that means it will actually be on sale by then is uncertain.
- Canada's research community has long yearned for a consequential funding boost for science – and 2018 is poised to be its year.
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. saw its fourth-quarter profit fall compared with a year ago as its costs rose.
- North American stock indexes extended last week's slump, as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged nearly 1,600 points during Monday's trading session, bringing an end to a period of record-setti
- Reading the BoC tea leaves Economists and investors will be all ears when senior deputy Bank of Canada governor Carolyn Wilkins delivers a speech in Montebello, Que., on Thursday.
- Tech leaders are challenging the federal Liberal government to get serious about reaping the rewards of one of the next big frontiers in the information revolution: big data.
- Long-standing problems with Canada's military procurement system are threatening to undermine the Trudeau government's vaunted defence policy, warns a new report.
- The Ontario Real Estate Association is seeking feedback on whether it should push the provincial government into modernizing the real estate industry to make it more transparent.
- Canada's augmented and virtual reality industries are in "desperate" need of homegrown investors to keep profits from seeping across the border and overseas, said some of the country's top innovato
- At least $1.50 has been artificially baked into the price of a loaf of bread during a 16-year-long bread price-fixing conspiracy involving the country's largest bakery wholesalers and grocery retai
- Just a few weeks after enraging fans with his musings about possibly moving his NHL team, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk says he has no plans to relocate the club and remains committed to brin
- Statistics Canada says the economy grew 0.4 per cent in November, helped by strength in the manufacturing sector.
- Pharmacy owners are bracing for "an industry-wide impact" from lower generic drug prices coming in April, the CEO of Metro Inc., which has a deal to buy Quebec's largest pharmacy chain, said Tuesda
- Facing scores of his fellow Republicans publicly pleading with him not to cancel NAFTA, U.S.
- Grocer Metro Inc. reported better than expected earnings and revenue in its latest quarter.
- Prominent members of Canada's entertainment industry are calling for a new federal agency to locate and shut down websites that are portals for illegally obtained video and audio content.
- Grocery chain Metro Inc. will report its first-quarter results and NAFTA talks wrap up round six this week.
- All signs point to the struggling print media industry getting a financial assist from the federal government in the next budget.
- Former Conservative MP Royal Galipeau, who represented the Ottawa-area riding of Orleans for nearly a decade, has died at the age of 71.
- Not only do Canadians have a knack for growing pot, they're also adept at sneaking it across the border, suggests a new report by Statistics Canada.
- Canadians may not be quite ready to fly on a pilotless aircraft but technological advances in self-driving vehicles are already opening the door to autonomous commercial flight, an increa
- Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.
- Ontario's Opposition leader is stepping down amid allegations of sexual misconduct, dealing a severe blow to his party just months before the province heads to the polls.
- The signing of a sprawling new trade pact involving two North American countries has revealed a rift in philosophy with the continent's superpower and raised the question of whether those
- Recreational pot stores could, in fact, be a value-add for nearby neighbourhoods.
- More Canadians may soon be able to order their groceries online for delivery as the country's grocery wars heat up following Amazon's entry to the competitive space.
- Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook visited Canada for the first time as CEO Monday, dropping in on Shopify’s Toronto office and surprising students at a downtown Apple store to highlight the importance of learn
- Tech sector entrepreneurs whose Canadian cities were snubbed by Amazon in its search for a second corporate campus say they are disappoi
- Time to have "the talk"? Alimentation Couche-Tard's hosts its first-ever investor day on Monday.
- Toronto's status as the lone Canadian contender in the race to land Amazon's second North American headquarters could give the city a competitive advantage, one of the key players behind the bid sa
- Protesters angered by some Ontario Tim Hortons franchisees who slashed workers' benefits and breaks after the province raised its minimum wage plan to spread their rallies to other areas of the cou
- The largest private sector union in Canada said Wednesday it is splitting with the Canadian Labour Congress over issues which include disagreements about the rights of workers to choose what union
- The federal government will give $700 million over the next five years to the Business Development Bank of Canada in a bid to grow Canada's clean technology industry.
- The federal government's plan to hike excise taxes on beer every year will result in consumers paying more for the alcoholic beverage and business owners investing less in their operations, says an
- The economy's impressive run prompted the Bank of Canada to raise its trend-setting interest rate Wednesday for the third time since last summer – but looking ahead it warned of growing u
- A class-action lawsuit filed in a U.S.
- Canada's real estate market will hit a slow patch in 2018 as tighter mortgage stress tests apply pressure and the impact could be exacerbated if an expected interest rate hike drives buyers to put
- BlackBerry Ltd., a company increasingly focused on technology for the self-driving vehicle market, is making an inaugural visit to North America's biggest auto show in Detroit, where CEO
- The few remaining Sears Canada stores closed their doors for good on Sunday.
- Valeant headed to court Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. is scheduled to appear in U.S.
- Revenue from Postmedia Network Canada Corp.'s printed publications continued to fall faster than digital revenue grew as the company re
- Ontario's largest and recently privatized electricity utility has spent $9 million to redesign bills and is proposing to spend an additional $6 million on the project.
- As NAFTA talks enter their most sensitive phase, a fever of speculation has broken out about whether Donald Trump might soon announce his intention to withdraw from NAFTA – and it's likel
- Protesters who rallied outside Tim Hortons locations across Ontario on Wednesday roasted some franchisees for slashing workers' benefits and breaks in an effort to compensate for the prov
- Companies might not be able to dodge rising minimum wages by relocating even their most mobile workforces to lower wage provinces, but higher costs could accelerate the pace of automation
- Toronto-Dominion Bank is acquiring artificial intelligence startup Layer 6 AI for an undisclosed amount as financial services companies increasingly look to tap the technology's potential
- Signs announcing price increases and letters to employees slashing benefits have grown rampant in Ontario, revealing two very different approaches businesses have gravitated toward in the
- Canadian companies are more upbeat about the future than they were three months ago with firms planning to boost investment and to hire more workers, according to the Bank of Canada's lat
- CIBC has signed a deal to acquire Wellington Financial as part of its plan to grow its business in the fast-moving technology sector.
- Bank of Canada reveals business outlook The central bank's quarterly survey of companies is released on Monday, and will hopefully provide a clearer picture of Canada'
- Ontario premier accuses Tim Hortons' founders' children of bullying employees over minimum wage hikeThe premier of Ontario lashed out at the children of Tim Hortons' billionaire co-founders on Thursday for
- An air passenger rights advocate is suing the Canadian Transportation Agency and Air Transat over decisions related to incidents in Ott
- Employees at the Tim Hortons locations owned by the children of the co-founders of the franchise say they have reduced employee benefits and cut back paid breaks to help offset Ontario's
- Canadians last year purchased more than two million vehicles for the first time thanks to record sales of light trucks.
- Chinese search-engine giant Baidu Inc. has selected BlackBerry Ltd.
- An Ottawa-based firm has been tapped by the federal government for a three-month pilot project designed to look for warning signs for suicide before tragedy strikes.
- Canadian initial public offerings rebounded last year from their worst performance in nearly two decades in 2016 as $5.1 billion in proceeds were generated with the prospect for a strong
- Some Canadian companies that earn a high share of their revenues in the United States stand to save big from a large reduction in the corporate tax rate, say industry experts.
- Heritage Minister Melanie Joly is the first to acknowledge Canada 150 had its share of ups and downs.
- No mortgage for you As of Jan. 1, shopping for a mortgage will become more difficult thanks to new rules from Canada's federal financial regulator.
- Mother Nature drowned out Canada Day on Parliament Hill and now she might freeze out New Year's Eve.
- Christmas is a time of giving, but it can also be an occasion for receiving less-than-desirable presents.
- Once thought of as a distant fantasy, autonomous trucks are moving towards commercial reality on Canadian highways as companies look to boost productivity amid a driver shortage and gover
- Crow Smith greets the deliveryman to unload a pile of packages from his truck.
- The United States Congress has adopted a major tax bill that has sweeping implications for the American economy, politics, national debt, and its neighbour, Canada.
- This holiday season, cocktail hour could really suck for the straw industry.
- BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX:BB) lost US$275 million in its third quarter, although its revenue and adjusted earnings were better than analysts were expecting.
- The federal government is going to stop buying internal combustion cars for cabinet ministers starting next year, a new federal environment plan says.
- Although the cost to build solar power has plummeted over the last decade, a new report suggests Canadians aren't rushing use the sun to make electricity.
- Canopy Growth Corp. has signed a joint-venture deal with Les Serres Stephane Bertrand Inc., a large-scale tomato greenhouse operator in Quebec.
- The country's cannabis black market was worth as much as $6.2 billion in 2015 – nearly as much as the wine market, a new report by Statistics Canada estimates.
- Canada's major wireless carriers are apologizing for long customer service wait times as consumers scramble to cash in on limited time promotional offers.
- On a weekend celebrating the game of hockey in the nation's capital, Ottawa Senators owner
- Grocery stores across the country are cashing in on the demise of the penny, according to a young researcher at the University of British Columbia.
- Bombardier-Boeing battle: The bitter dispute between Bombardier and Boeing will enter a critical phase Monday, when the two aerospace rivals appear before the U.S.
- Sky-high debt loads are one of the central bank governor's top concerns, he said Thursday after data showed the amount Canadians owe relative to their income hit a new high in the third quarter.
- Canadian supporters of "net neutrality" say a U.S.
- The federal government released more details this week on changes to its controversial tax proposals in hopes of further addressing deep concerns over reforms that have angered the small-
- Canadians are eating out more and can expect to pay extra to do so in 2018, suggests a forward-looking report into food prices.
- The long road to replacing Canada's aging fighter jets took a surprising turn Tuesday as the federal Liberal government added a caveat to its latest battle of the bidders: contenders deemed to be h
- WestJet and Delta Air Lines plan to form a joint venture that will enhance transborder service and deepen the relationship between the two companies.
- Air Canada (TSX:AC) and Air China Ltd. say they will be expanding their mutual codeshare services in time for the 2018 Canada-China Year of Tourism.
- The federal government's economic advisers are calling for more changes aimed at driving business investment and helping Canadians acquire new skills as they brace for the march of technology and i
- Canopy Growth Corp. will have the first privately run legal weed stores announced in Canada under a landmark deal to supply and produce pot
- Todd Bailey is fed up with delivery companies that drop his online purchases at his door.
- Bombardier investor day: Shareholders will have a chance to question Bombardier executives next week in New York about the company's plans for 2018 after a turbulent 2017
- Canadian beverage retailer DavidsTea is evaluating strategic options, including a possible sale, and eyeing store closures after a weaker-than-expected third quarter.
- Technological advances in artificial intelligence are fuelling a new race between hackers and those toiling to protect cybersecurity networks.
- BlackBerry Ltd.
- Ontario electricity ratepayers are paying millions for power generators' ineligible expenses – including scuba gear and raccoon traps – and are footing the bill for large industrial compa
- The Bank of Canada is sticking with its trend-setting interest rate, but it's sending out fresh, yet cautious, warnings that increases are likely on the way.
- Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B) is reportedly considering the sale of such assets as baseball's Toronto Blue Jays and a stake in media company Cogeco Inc.
- Ottawa-area pot producer Canopy Growth Corp.
- Bank of Montreal raised its quarterly dividend as it reported its fourth-quarter profit slipped compared with a year ago, hurt by reinsurance claims related to hurricanes Irma, Maria and Harvey.
- Marijuana producer Aphria Inc. announced it has entered a five-year agreement to supply pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart with medical cannabis.
- Ontario is envisioning a future in which millions of electric vehicles are on the roads, but analysts predict consumer uptake will remain far off the government target for 2020, despite tens of mil
- Trans Mountain melee continues: Oral submissions continue next week as the National Energy Board considers a motion from Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC, which argues that the City of
- Bell is launching a new discount pre-paid wireless brand, Lucky Mobile. The service will initially be available in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia starting Dec. 4.
- Air Transat failed its passengers during a sweltering, hours-long ordeal aboard two of its grounded aircraft this summer, a federal age
- Parks Canada runs 47 national parks and 170 national heritage sites, in every province and territory.
- As banks work to fortify their cybersecurity defences amidst a growing number of data breaches, they are also exploring the promise of so-called "open banking," a concept that could final
- Canadians are putting in more effort in the classroom, additional time on the job and extra teeth-gnashing minutes on the road getting to and from work, Statistics Canada says in the late
- The first two of four big Canadian banks reported year-end earnings this week, as both Scotiabank and Royal Bank of Canada saw an uptick in Q4 profits.
- As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a landmark case on provincial beer and liquor monopolies, a new poll indicates Canadians overwhelmingly want to tear down trade barriers to alcohol – an
- Canada's competition watchdog says it will review a deal between Torstar Corp. and Postmedia Network Inc. announced Monday to sell newspapers to each other and close most of them down.
- Four out of the Big Five reporting
- Canada celebrated its 150th birthday in 2017 but it was the tourism industry that got to collect the presents.
- The Sobeys grocery business will be cutting about 800 office jobs across Canada as part of efforts to create one efficient national organization out of five regional operations, the compa
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's support of "net neutrality" is encouraging but the concept should be enshrined in federal law to protect it from being dismantled, an open-internet activist said Thu
- The $5.6-million skating rink constructed on the east lawn of Parliament Hill will remain open to the public until the end of February – not just for three weeks as initially planned.
- The Competition Bureau is investigating allegations that prices on some merchandise were marked up ahead of the liquidation sales at Sears Canada that began last month, the court-appointe
- Metro Inc.
- Health Canada offered hints Tuesday about the government's plans for legal pot, including, plain packaging and stern, stark health warnings like those found on tobacco products.
- The federal government's chronic salary struggles will take more time and more dollars than the three years and $540 million projected to fix the snafu-stricken Phoenix public service pay system, t
- Nebraska regulators approved passage of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline Monday, clearing the last major regulatory hurdle for the controversial $10-billion project but creating a new w
- Bell Media is laying off employees, including prominent on-air personalities, at radio and TV stations across Canada. However, the company won't say how many, who or where.
- College faculty in Ontario head back to their schools today, after a five-week strike was ended over the weekend with back-to-work legislation.
- Notley goes to bat for Trans Mountain
- In an increasingly digital world, most Canadians still carry physical money in their wallets and favour cash payments, especially for smaller sums, according to a new report by Canada's central ban
- Canopy Growth Corp. of Smiths Falls, Ont., has formed a joint venture to share ownership of the Agripharm indoor growing operation in Creemore, Ont., with Amsterdam-based Green House Brands.
- Ontario's striking college faculty voted Thursday to reject a contract offer and continue their nearly five-week job action.
- What is nearly imperceptible, leaks important secrets and can keep Canada's top bankers up at night? A cyberattack.
- Give us a year, and we'll build a working replacement for the trouble-plagued Phoenix pay system, one of the country's biggest civil service unions told the Trudeau Liberals on Tuesday.
- Ontario will slash small business taxes and offer millions in incentives aimed at easing the transition to an increasing minimum wage as the province's Liberal government heads for a spring electio
- Canada's largest licensed marijuana producer reported a $1.3-million loss in its latest quarter despite doubling its revenue compared with a year ago, sending its shares lower in Tuesday trading.
- The Canada Revenue Agency is seeking information from three Canadian banks about customer transactions linked to a major Israeli financial institution as part of a federal crackdown on offshore tax
- Shoppers Drug Mart is looking to hire a medical marijuana brand manager as it tries to position itself in the burgeoning cannabis market, even though it is not currently legal to distribute the dru
- Ride-hailing company Lyft is bringing its service to Canada. The company announced Monday that it is coming to Toronto in what will be its first expansion outside of the United States.
- Looking for Jordan: The case resumes Wednesday against several former SNC-Lavalin and hospital executives charged with fraud in Montreal.
- New parents planning to begin parental leave on or after Dec.
- Talks towards salvaging a Pacific Rim trade pact this weekend lost steam Friday as several countries, including Canada, expressed enough concerns that leaders cancelled a scheduled meeting to discu
- Quebec will forge ahead with plans to tax Netflix with or without the support of the federal government, the province's finance minister has said in a letter to his federal counterpart.
- A coalition of licensed marijuana producers are urging Canadian, provincial and territorial governments to adopt looser advertising guidelines such as allowing for promotion of brands, going agains
- The federal government is embarking on a regulatory overhaul to crack down on harassment in federal workplaces, from Parliament Hill to the telecom industry.
- Customers at Shoppers Drug Mart or any of Loblaw Companies Ltd.'s grocery stores will soon use a new, unified loyalty program that replaces Optimum and PC Plus points.
- Telecom and media giant BCE Inc. says it will buy Canadian home security service AlarmForce Industries Inc. in a deal worth about $166 million.
- Canadian negotiators are pushing for three key changes to the original Trans-Pacific Partnership as leaders of the remaining countries interested in reviving the controversial treaty prepare to mee
- The Canada Revenue Agency says it won't hesitate to investigate new evidence of offshore tax evasion in the wake of a second massive leak of tax haven financial records.
- Economic update: Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz will speak at a conference co-hosted by CFA Montreal and the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday.
- Striking faculty and the council representing Ontario's 24 colleges resumed bargaining talks Thursday as pressure mounts to end the labour dispute that's left half a million students out of class f
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that the company is serious about preventing abuse and that its investments in keeping "problematic content" off its social network will affect
- Allegations of price fixing in the bread aisles of major grocers are "shocking" and "bizarre," analysts said Wednesday as more companies came forward to reveal they are co-operating with
- The Canadian economy hit reverse in August, its first monthly pullback since October last year.
- A new report says just five per cent of Canadian technology companies have a female founder and a similar fraction have a woman as CEO, figures which suggest the industry's gender diversity is lagg
- The Royal Canadian Mint says a phoney gold bar sold to a jeweller by an Ottawa bank may have looked like the real thing, but was actually a counterfeit.
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. saw its third-quarter profit grow by about 20 per cent compared with a year ago as it increased capacity and traffic.
- Constellation Brands has signed a deal to acquire a nearly 10 per cent stake in Canopy Growth Corp.
- The federal Liberals plan to shift just over $2 billion in planned infrastructure spending to future years, reflecting slower-than-anticipated spending on the file, The Canadian Press has learned.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau predicts a monument in Ottawa to the 125th anniversary of the Stanley Cup will become a major attraction in the national capital.
- Shopify's CEO addresses claims from what he called a "short-selling troll" and other stories to watch in Canadian business this week.
- The Grey Cup is still a month away but organizers say the game is sold out.
- Senior officials at the Department of National Defence are admitting that they will be challenged to make good on the Trudeau government's promise to buy billions of dollars in new military equipme
- A deal between one of Canada's oldest retailers and a fast-growing U.S.
- Shares of retailer Roots Corp. had a less-than-stellar initial public offering, plummeting more than 16 per cent on the stock's first day of trading.
- Aecon Group Inc. (TSX:ARE) has signed a deal to be acquired by CCCC International Holding Ltd.
- The Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday following two straight hikes but suggested future increases are still likely, albeit at a more gradual pace.
- Not everyone wants to own a home these days, Evan Siddall concedes – not even his own millennial-age son.
- The Trudeau government is dedicating about a third of the windfall it's expecting from Canada's surprisingly strong economy towards investments, tax relief and new spending on social programs to su
- Retailers are racing to adopt new technologies, like the self-scanner Walmart has rolled out in 22 Canadian stores, to stay competitive in a challenging industry.
- A new website that lets travellers bypass travel agents and pocket commissions has ceased operations in Ontario after the province's travel regulator claimed the site violates provincial
- Rate hike decision: A cooling economy is dampening expectations that the Bank of Canada will hike the overnight rate on Wednesday.
- Sears Canada began its liquidation sales at its remaining stores across the country Thursday, but many shoppers found the deals to be un
- Fans of rock star, poet and Canadian troubadour Gord Downie began flooding social media with heartfelt tributes as soon as word emerged that the singer had died.
- It's like a technology-themed reality TV dating show.
- Finance Minister Bill Morneau has scaled back one of the most contentious elements of the Trudeau government's tax-reform plan in yet another effort to calm infuriated small business owne
- The NAFTA countries haven't broken up. But they are publicly bickering. They are delaying their next get-together date.
- Licensed marijuana producer Aphria Inc.
- Loblaw Companies Ltd. is laying off 500 of its office workers, but the company says it still expects to create more jobs than it eliminates this year.
- European aircraft giant Airbus Group is shaking up the global airline business by buying a majority stake in Bombardier's CSeries program and assembling the plane in the U.S.
- Faculty at 24 Ontario colleges went on strike late Sunday, affecting more than 500,000 students.
- Justin Trudeau will belatedly honour his campaign promise to cut the small business tax rate to nine per cent as his government scrambles to undo the damage from weeks of controversy over
- Weekly stats: Statistics Canada has a busy week ahead and will release data on Canada's international transactions in securities for August; investment in non-residential
- Sears Canada has received court approval to proceed with a full liquidation of its remaining stores, signalling the end of an era for a
- The NAFTA talks have now entered their most difficult phase with the United States beginning to drop its bombshell proposals on the negotiating table at a just-begun fourth round outside
- Beeru Mannan owns two Freshii locations in British Columbia with his brother, and the duo plan to open another pair of the chain's restaurants in the province next year.
- Canopy Growth Corp.
- The union representing faculty at Ontario's 24 public colleges has set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 16.
- Stephen Harper broke his public silence on current events by offering a gloomy assessment on the state of international trade, describing anti-trade sentiment in the U.S.
- The federal government has announced a short list of nine so-called supercluster proposals that could qualify for a piece of a $950-million federal fund the government hopes will boost th
- Sears Canada Inc.
- Canada's remaining independent breweries know they can't compete with the economies of scale and marketing capabilities of global conglomerates, so they're concentrating on winning custom
- Trudeau hits the road: The prime minister heads to Washington Tuesday to discuss security and trade with U.S.
- A critical report about the federal government's problem-plagued pay system says officials underestimated the project's complexity and seemed to ignore warning signs before giving it the
- Some Canadian information technology companies are pushing back at warnings that the personal information of Canadians is being compromised in the renegotiation of the North American Free
- TransCanada has cancelled plans for the Energy East pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects that were to take Alberta oilsands production to Quebec and New Brunswick.
- Shopify's (TSX:SHOP) stock plunged for a second day before recovering most of Thursday's losses,
- Sears Canada has just over a week to assess another revised bid from a buyer group led by its executive chairman as its lenders press for liquidation of the embattled retailer that could start as e
- Citron Research, an online stock commentary website whose reports have previously moved the direction of shares for the likes of Valeant and BlackBerry, claims the Ottawa-based firm's business model…
- Toronto-Dominion Bank is opening a new office in Tel Aviv to tap Israel's cybersecurity talent as companies of all stripes race to fortify their defences amid mounting threats.
- Canada's housing agency is looking to an unlikely ally in a bid to boost the stock of affordable rental housing: Airbnb.
- With its public outreach winding down, the Trudeau government received fresh warnings this week from major industry associations about the negative fallout from its controversial tax-refo
- Canada's largest real-estate trust says it's planning to sell about $2 billion worth of properties – primarily open-air malls or power centres – in secondary markets across the country.
- Some of the biggest names in tech are lining up to join Canada's burgeoning artificial intelligence sector, but harnessing the sector's
- Bombardier's no good, very bad week: After having its CSeries jets slapped with a 219 per cent duty by the U.S.
- The Canadian government's new cultural strategy all but snubs so-called legacy media, industry experts say, and left out some key measures that could have given a boost to struggling newspapers exp
- Finance Minister Bill Morneau tried to reassure farmers Thursday that Ottawa's controversial tax proposals, if introduced, wouldn't impair their ability to bequeath the family farm to the next gene
- BlackBerry Ltd.
- Another Canadian grocery store and pharmacy chain conglomerate could be on the horizon as Metro Inc.
- An agreement that Netflix will invest at least $500 million in original productions in Canada is set to be part of a long-awaited reboot of Canada's cultural policy.
- WestJet says that its new no-frills, lower-fare airline will be named Swoop. The Calgary-based company (TSX:WJA) has been gradually revealing details of its new carrier since April.
- Ontario's plan to hike minimum wage to $15 an hour will cost the province's economy as many as 90,000 jobs by 2020, according to a new report from TD Bank.
- Bombardier's hopes for breaking into the U.S. commercial aviation market took a massive blow on Tuesday, as the U.S.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on Canada's small-and-medium sized businesses to embrace globalization and help deepen what he termed the "Canada-China friendship" by exploring the market pote
- Published reports say ride-hailing company Uber could be about to cease operations in Quebec.
- Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:
- As Transcontinental sells off its weekly newspaper portfolio, many of its former employees are jumping at the chance to get into the publishing business by snapping up the publications.
- Jon Levy's favourite playthings as a Toronto child growing up in the 1960s and 1970s included Lego blocks and fort-building kits – classics that still fly off the shelves of his Mastermind Toy stor
- Defence companies and shipbuilders competing to design Canada's new fleet of warships have been given until Nov. 17 to submit their proposals.
- Canadian companies have much greater access to one of the world's largest markets starting Thursday, as a major trade deal between Canada and the European Union enters into force.
- Simons department store chain is launching a new app as part of its plan to grow its e-commerce business.
- A Gatineau medical marijuana producer says its processed products have been certified as kosher, just in time for one of the High Holidays on the Jewish calendar.
- Air Canada is seeking a credit card partner for its new loyalty program which it says will help improve the bond with passengers and drive increased profits.
- Labatt Breweries of Canada says it is investing $460 million between 2017 and 2020 to enhance its operations and help boost growth.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped the gloves Monday in his fight with Boeing, saying the government won't do business with a company that he's accusing of attacking Canadian industry and trying
- Toys "R" Us has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and says it intends to follow suit in Canada.
- Stats Can pumping out data from July, Canadian consumer rights conference and CETA comes into effect.
- Researchers and newspaper entrepreneurs are seeing opportunities for upstart media outlets to thrive in Ontario communities.
- City subsidies for professional sports teams can be justified in the name of civic planning, pride or politics, but suggestions that they result in net growth to the overall economy don't
- Another Canadian clothing retailer, Roots Corp., wants to take its company public as it plans a massive North American and international expansion over the next several years.
- Equifax Canada is facing intensifying calls for transparency on its massive cyberhack as the Canadian Automobile Association informs thousands of its members that their data may have been
- Workers at Postmedia's National Post newspaper have announced plans to try to form a union.
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- Air Canada (TSX:AC) says it has reached an agreement to expand the number of aircraft in its discount brand Rouge.
- Carissa, a Ottawa single mom on welfare six years ago, has a full-time job today and more money to show for it – along with a number of other Canadians, suggest fresh census numbers released Wednes
- More than 50,000 people could lose their jobs if the Ontario government goes ahead with its plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019, the province's financial watchdog said i
- Evacuating customers from areas in the path of the deadly Hurricane Irma has frustrated some passengers but Air Canada says it was perhaps the most complex manoeuvre since the Sept.
- Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth Corp.
- Ontario's plan to sell and distribute recreational pot exclusively through a network of government-operated stores could lock in the dominance of the country's large-scale licensed mariju
- Poker face: The online gambling company formerly known as Amaya Inc.
- Ontario is the first province out of the gate with a detailed plan to sell and distribute recreational marijuana when the federal government legalizes it next summer.
- Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk believes less could mean more.
- Airlines scurrying to evacuate customers from Caribbean islands in the destructive path of hurricane Irma say it's not yet clear if the storm will have lasting impact on next winter's sun
- The Bank of Canada's second interest rate increase this summer has financial experts warning that more could be on the way, and now is the time for Canadians to take a serious look at the
- An activist investor in Hudson's Bay Co.
- Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau says income-tax reforms are needed because small business owners have an unfair advantage that cou
- The Bank of Canada has raised its interest rate for the second time in less than two months in an effort to adjust to the unexpected force of the country's economic momentum.
- Canadian companies could be serious contenders in the global self-driving vehicle race, experts have suggested after Magna International Inc.
- Canada's construction industry may soon have a better idea of how attractive it is to the increasingly globalized building sector as one of its biggest catches sits on the auction block a
- Up, up and don't go away: Canadian gas prices, which tend to rise ahead of long weekends like Labour Day, have faced additional pressure from Hurricane Harvey, which has
- Ground crews working two Air Transat flights that faced high-profile tarmac delays this summer say the pilots didn't tell them, nor were they aware, of imminent fuel needs aboard one of t
- Bill Morneau is scrambling to calm the fears of nervous Liberal backbenchers who've been inundated with complaints about the finance minister's plan to eliminate loopholes that give some
- Canada's biggest five banks had a better-than-expected combined third-quarter profit of $10.15 billion helped by a strong economy, but a potential interest rate hike from the Bank of Cana
- The economy surged past expectations with across-the-board growth in the second quarter, giving the country its best start to a calendar year since 2002, Statistics Canada said Thursday.
- Passengers who were trapped aboard two Air Transat jets earlier this summer described hours on end of sweltering heat, a lack of water and the stench of vomit in the cabin as a federal ag
- Scotiabank's $800-million deal for the naming rights to the Air Canada Centre, home of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, is the latest move by a corporation to corner the sponsorship market
- Two of Canada's major banks are mighty optimistic about the prospects for North America's economic climate after talking to the companies they lend money to.
- Canada's two largest airlines have cancelled scores of flights, affecting thousands of passengers, due to the massive hurricane that has flooded parts of Texas.
- Walmart Canada is looking to strengthen its online presence by adding third-party sellers to its website.
- The federal government is rolling out millions in new spending to help thousands of students heading back to campus find work placements during their studies.
- Problems with the federal government's public service pay system got worse over the last month as pay system employees struggled to process changes to civil service contracts, the department respon
- The head of Quebec-based department store chain Simons is feeling vindicated as it completes the first phase of a five-year, $200 million national expansion even as the empires built by t
- The banks are doing just fine, thanks: Investors got a first look last week at how Canadian banks are faring amid a housing market slowdown and record consumer debt levels.
- Three months into the fiscal year, the public books are on track to meet the Trudeau government's deficit projection of $28.5 billion, an update on federal finances said Friday.
- Locally, Cominar owns the Vanguard Building at 171 Slater St., three lowrise office buildings at 700, 750 and 770 Palladium Dr. in Kanata and the 184,000-square-foot office building at 400 Cooper St…
- Soaring home prices have been a boon to mortgage businesses, but recent government efforts to cool the housing market could impact lenders if the economy falters, CIBC said Thursday.
- The Ontario Real Estate Association says fines should be doubled for realtors who break the rules, at a time when agents are collecting big commissions in the province's inflated housing
- From vacation cash to luxury cars, some technology companies in British Columbia are offering big perks to woo prospective employees.
- A major Ontario labour reform bill is being tweaked but so far is seeing no significant changes to key parts, including a controversial phase-in of a $15 minimum wage, leaving concerned b
- Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) is reporting nearly $2.8 billion of net income for its fiscal third quarter and an unexpectedly large increase to its quarterly dividend.
- The federal government will consider what to do with admission fees for national parks beyond Canada's 150th birthday after this year's free parks program has proven to be exceptionally popular.
- Another divorce in Canada's loyalty card sector has consumers stuck in the middle asking questions about the future of an industry still bruised by the actions of some of its largest prov
- Shares of Transat A.T.
- The Liberal government is thinking about using its massive purchasing power to support women in business.
- Inside the banks: Royal Bank will kick off the latest earnings season for the Big Five Canadian banks on Wednesday, followed by CIBC on Thursday.
- Consumers in the National Capital Region caught a modest break last month as local prices for household goods and services climbed at a slower rate than the rest of the country, Statistic
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says its Canadian stores gained market share against rivals during its fiscal second quarter.
- Ali Van Orman is still looking for specialized glasses to protect her family's eyes during Monday's solar eclipse because she never counted on demand totally eclipsing supply.
- Listing your home for sale in Canada could soon mean you not only have to tell people how much it costs to buy it, but also how much it costs to run it.
- The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is taking over President's Choice Financial bank accounts with a new online brand as it responds to the continuing trend towards digital banking.
- A preliminary list of 44 potential host cities, including seven in Canada, have been released by the joint North American bid for the 2026 World Cup.
- Ontario's third-largest grocery chain will accelerate its study of automation as it looks to cut costs to offset the provincial government's plan to raise the minimum wage next year, the
- Lawyers representing workers at Sears Canada and the company have reached a deal to create a hardship fund for former employees who were denied severance payments when they lost their job
- The Ontario government's plan for major labour reforms would have significant side effects that would put 185,000 jobs at risk, a coalition of business groups said Monday in releasing par
- WSP Global is moving to expand its engineering consulting business Down Under in a deal to acquire Opus International Consultants Ltd. valued at $280.5 million including debt.
- Chrystia Freeland has given Canadians a peek at their government's strategy as it prepares to go nose-to-nose with the country's biggest trading partner in crucial NAFTA talks.
- Boardrooms, a wine-storage centre, an on-site sommelier, a lounge – those are just some of the perks an Ottawa-based company is promising as it builds a massive self-storage facility in T
- Bryan Murray, an NHL coaching giant known for his rapier wit, acute hockey sense and, ultimately, courage in his fight against cancer, has died. He was 74.
- Sold Below Asking? The Canadian Real Estate Association releases its latest monthly home sales data on Tuesday.
- The competition to become one of up to five government-designated technology "superclusters" and draw from a federal funding purse of $950 million has attracted more than 50 proposals.
- Watching your favourite shows on Netflix Canada just got a little more expensive.
- Air Transat's president has taken aim at the Liberal government's proposed passenger bill of rights, writing that the legislation may unfairly punish airlines for delays that spiral out o
- The sexism displayed in a controversial missive written by a now-fired male Google engineer is alive and well in Canada's tech sector, says one of the country's most prominent media bosse
- The Canadian online storytelling platform Wattpad has proven to be a popular hangout for passionate readers eager to embrace the work of new writers, particularly when it comes to fan fic
- New research suggests a small number of large commercial property owners are the most successful on Airbnb and are eating up the local supply of housing in Canada's three largest cities.
- In a tree-nestled First Nation community on Vancouver Island, forestry and farming used to be the major industries that kept the economy humming and put food on families' tables.
- The bottom line: Corporate earnings to take note of this week include Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Quebecor, Canadian Tire, Manulife and Sun Life.
- Things may be perking up at the Second Cup Ltd. (TSX:SCU).
- Index-tracking exchange-traded funds have become one of the fastest growing ways for Canadian investors to gain diverse exposure to the stock market at a low price.
- Tim Hortons plans to expand to Spain, its fourth venture abroad in recent months, as it tries to overcome lagging sales and an internal revolt from disgruntled franchisees in Canada.
- The Ottawa International Airport Authority says it was prepared to distribute food and water to passengers who were stuck on the tarmac for six hours following a transatlantic flight, but
- Walmart Canada is eliminating the pickup fee from its online grocery service as it braces for increasing competition in a business where profit margins are already razor thin.
- WestJet (TSX:WJA) says the launch of its new no-frills, low-cost airline won't be until next summer after initially announcing plans it would start offering flights later this year.
- The United States wants to maintain – and even expand – the Buy America provisions that restrict government procurement to companies using materials from within its borders, while making
- Over the next year and a half, Alan Bekerman plans to grow his Toronto healthy fast-food chain Iq Food Co. from five to up to 11 locations and not a single one will accept cash.
- The bottom line: It's high earnings season this week, with a number of corporate heavyweights releasing their latest results.
- About 700 ground crew workers at Canada's busiest airport went on strike Thursday night after they rejected a contract offer from their employer.
- Gatineau-based Agrisoma Biosciences said this week that it’s signed a long-term agreement with biorefiner UPM of Finland to produce renewable fuels in South America.
- Malaysian national energy giant Petronas and its partners scrapped the Pacific NorthWest LNG megaproject Tuesday, ending months of anticipation on the fate of what would have been one of
- The International Monetary Fund expects Canada to lead the G7 for economic growth this year. The IMF raised its outlook for Canada as part of its latest world economic outlook update.
- The loonie was trading at an average price of 79.96 cents US, up. 0.04 of a U.S.
- Sixteen of Canada's licensed marijuana producers have enlisted the help of Advertising Standards Canada to develop guidelines on how the drug should be branded and promoted before its rec
- John, meet Justin: John Horgan is expected to head to Ottawa this week to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the first time since he became British Columbia's premier
- The annual pace of inflation slowed once again last month as lower gasoline and electricity prices helped offset higher costs in most other categories, Statistics Canada said Friday.
- The federal government will find a way to create 15,000 green jobs over three years, even after falling well short of a smaller goal last year, Canada's labour minister says.
- Rogers Communications is reporting a 35 per cent increase in second-quarter net income, beating analyst estimates.
- The federal government is on the cusp of launching an overhaul of the computer systems running key social safety net programs, and hoping to avoid seeing another IT project become mired i
- The federal government is facing calls, including warnings from BlackBerry's co-founder, to be particularly vigilant when the upcoming NAFTA talks shift to intellectual property.
- The federal government is proposing measures to tighten what it calls "unfair" loopholes for private corporations that enable many wealthy Canadians, including professionals like some doc
- Canadian measures to protect the dairy industry came under the microscope at a U.S.
- The Trudeau government is extending public consultations to find out what Canadians want to see in a new North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Canada's spy agency is facing questions about its workplace culture amid allegations that senior officials foster a prejudice and distrust for Muslims employees, who are seen as "essentia
- Sears Canada's plan to pay out millions in bonuses to keep execs and key staff on board while not paying severance to laid-off workers is being met with shock and disbelief.
- Inflation figures, a meeting of Canada's premiers and several key corporate earning reports are among the events expected to make headlines in the days ahead.
- An Ontario judge has given Sears Canada the green light to immediately proceed with reaching out to potential buyers while it's under creditor protection.
- The International Monetary Fund has given the Trudeau government a passing mark for its handling of the economy since coming to power, but warns that "more difficult challenges lie ahead.
- The head of WestJet has stepped up his fight against the growing push to unionize the airline's staff, telling them to resist organized labour's pitch because it will chomp into their pay
- Tarek Mnaimne has been considering dipping his toes into the Canadian real estate market, particularly in Toronto or Montreal, but the rate hike from the central bank is giving him pause.
- The Canadian dollar is soaring to levels not seen in nearly a year after the Bank of Canada announced it was hiking its key lending rate for the first time since 2010.
- The Bank of Canada has hiked its benchmark interest rate to 0.75 per cent from 0.5 per cent, its first increase in nearly seven years, amid expectations of stronger economic growth this year.
- For anyone hoping the Liberal government plans to blow up Canada's much-maligned military procurement system, Patrick Finn has some advice: Don't hold your breath.
- Cogeco Communications inked the biggest acquisition in its 60-year history on Monday with a $1.4-billion deal to buy the MetroCast cable systems and expand its U.S. presence.
- During peak tourist season, thousands of people stream into Canada's national museums each day – and this summer is already shaping up to be even stronger than usual in Ottawa, thanks to
- Ontario's bid to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour – a move that is feared by businesses but has the support of some prominent economists – is being put to the public this week.
- Talking drugs and politics: The Jean Coutu Group holds its annual meeting Tuesday after reporting its first-quarter results.
- Postmedia Network Canada Corp. is reporting a $13-million net profit in its fiscal third quarter, as cost savings more than offset an 11.1 per cent decline in overall revenue.
- Canadians are starting to take note that the key number determining how much they pay for a mortgage is very likely going to soon go up.
- China fears cyberattacks because it is creating cutting-edge technology that others will want to steal, says its envoy to Canada, a rebuttal of the widely held view that the country is a
- Despite slumping passenger car sales, for the first time more than one million new vehicles have been sold in Canada by the midway mark of the year.
- PwC says the initial public offering market in Canada has bounced back, posting a steady recovery through the first half of the year after a dismal 2016.
- Paper Maple Leaf flags soaked by an early morning downpour quickly turned into makeshift fans to ward off sticky afternoon warmth Saturday as thousands of people squelched and squished th
- Sturdy economic growth and a central bank survey showing renewed business optimism reinforced expectations that Canada's first interest rate hike since 2010 could be less than two weeks a
- Trading hours: North American markets will likely be quieter than usual because of national holidays.
- It's a great time for Canadian startups to attract top talent from south of the border as the U.S.
- Ontario is proposing banning the practice of double ending, in which a real estate agent represents both a buyer and a seller in a transaction.
- With the Bank of Canada nearing its next policy decision, expectations of an interest-rate hike increased Wednesday after governor Stephen Poloz reiterated that his 2015 cuts appeared to
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought Tuesday to assuage public fears and political complaints that the Liberal government's decision to allow the Chinese takeover of a Canadian satellite
- Beer drinkers in two Ontario communities can now have their brew of choice brought straight to their door.
- The largest marijuana producer in the Ottawa area said Tuesday that it significantly raised its revenues, product volumes, expenses and patient base in its fiscal 2017 year as the high-growth compa
- The Trailer Park Boys, Nova Scotia's supposedly dopey mockumentary stars, are amassing a business empire spanning an online comedy network, production studio, beverage deals, marijuana br
- It's been said that Canadians are not brash about their patriotism, but you wouldn't know it from the variety of merchandise, big and small, being snapped up in advance of Canada's 150th
- Climate confab: Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has a busy week ahead.
- Air Canada's plans to develop its own frequent flyer program are one of several digitization initiatives the airline is pursuing to meet the varying needs of its 45 million passengers a y
- BlackBerry CEO John Chen defended his plan to grow the software business as its shares tumbled Friday after reporting revenue that fell short of expectations.
- The success of bitcoin has spurred the launch of hundreds of copycat digital payment systems looking to cash in on the popularity of the cryptocurrency.
- Sears Canada (TSX:SCC) said it plans to close 59 locations, including two in the National Capital Region, and cut about 2,900 jobs under a court-supervised restructuring after it was granted protec
- Provincial subsidies to encourage the use of electric vehicles are the most expensive, least effective way to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, the Montreal Economic Institute says in a
- The Source is staging a transformation to turn its stores into electronics playgrounds in an effort to boost sales as the consumer technology industry faces pressure on multiple fronts, i
- Sears Canada's stock plunged more than 20 per cent Wednesday following a report that it's preparing to seek court protection from creditors.
- The Bank of Canada is embarking on a new mission with its soon-to-be-opened museum to show people just how much fun monetary policy can be.
- The Trudeau government is sticking with its deadline to legalize recreational marijuana by July 2018, despite provincial fears that there's not enough time to address the legal, social an
- A Tim Hortons franchisee is seeking a class-action lawsuit against parent company Restaurant Brands International (TSX:QSR), alleging it improperly used money from a national advertising
- Robert Campeau, the former real estate mogul who once controlled the Bloomingdale's and Macy's department store chains in the United States, has died at 93.
- Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods gives the e-commerce giant a foothold in Canada's grocery industry and could pressure supermarket chains to step up their game in an already competitive e
- At the table: Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau hosts his provincial and territorial counterparts Monday in Ottawa.
- Cellphone companies will soon no longer be allowed to charge customers to unlock their devices, Canada's telecom regulator said Thursday as it unveiled sweeping changes to the wireless co
- U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated a big-money political donor and philanthropist with personal ties to the coal industry as the next American ambassador to Canada.
- Canadian merchants may soon start charging customers extra to pay with certain credit cards thanks to a settlement agreement in a class action suit.
- Back in 2009, Sobeys found itself at a crossroads.
- A Montreal startup said Thursday it is getting US$102 million from Microsoft, Intel and several other investors to fund the company's goal of becoming a leader in artificial intelligence,
- Sears Canada, known for its catalogues that were a household staple for generations, says there is "significant doubt" about its future and it could sell or restructure itself.
- The Bank of Canada is encouraged by a broadening of economic strength, which includes gains across 70 per cent of industries, a top official said Monday, in what was widely seen as a "haw
- Canada's interconnected banks are vulnerable to a cascading series of cyberattacks that could undermine broad confidence in the financial system, the Bank of Canada warns.
- Marijuana industry insiders say they have met with the operators of Canada's largest stock exchange to devise a policy on investing in the U.S., where growing and selling cannabis violate
- Welcome, Texas: The mayors of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, will be in Toronto and Montreal throughout the week to promote trade, tourism and other business opportunities
- Hudson's Bay Co.
- The Bank of Montreal's CEO is downplaying the consequences that would come from a possible correction in house prices, saying the real estate market "essentially heals itself."
- Canada's financial system is becoming increasingly exposed to economic shocks as household debt levels continue to climb and major housing markets remain red hot, the Bank of Canada said Thursday.
- The Trudeau government committed Wednesday to spend $62 billion more over the next two decades for a major expansion of the Canadian Armed Forces, aimed at ensuring it can properly defend
- Since co-founding the Green Organic Dutchman, a medical cannabis producer based in Ancaster, Ont., Jeannette VanderMarel says she has often found herself the only woman in a room full of
- Canada's new foreign policy will involve spending billions on "hard power" military capability because the country can't rely on an American ally that has turned inward, says Foreign Affa
- Nearly one in five first-time homebuyers received help with a down payment from a family member, according to a survey conducted by the federal housing agency released Tuesday.
- A government source says the former U.S. embassy across from Parliament Hill is set to become a space dedicated to First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.
- Ontario businesses with at least 20 employees should do their part to tackle unemployment rates among the disabled community by committing to hire at least one person from that demographi
- Canada's capital will do everything it can to prevent an attack when it hosts the country's 150th birthday next month but no amount of preparation can guarantee 100 per cent safety, Ottaw
- Hot house: The most widely watched housing market these days will make news Monday, when the Toronto Real Estate Board releases the property sales figures for May on Mond
- The federal government's bug-addled public service pay system saw a fresh spike in problems last month, the result of new labour contracts and summer hiring, officials said Friday.
- BlackBerry Ltd. shares surged nearly 11 per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange after a research report identified the company as a likely target for an acquisition.
- Canada's economy picked up steam in the first three months of this year, driven by consumer spending, a turnaround in business investment, and the housing market, the national statistics
- Internet and mobile providers must invest in infrastructure to keep up with a booming consumer appetite for entertainment both at home and on the go, Bell Canada Enterprises CEO George Co
- Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) reported a 30 per cent surge in profits Tuesday, closing out a quarter that saw Canada's five biggest banks beat expectations, largely thanks to lower than anticipate
- The Canadian government says it expects negotiations to start this summer for a new North American Free Trade Agreement: "NAFTA negotiations will start in August – not September," Foreign
- One year before a general election, Ontario's Liberal government is promising sweeping changes to labour laws that would benefit millions of workers, including raising the minimum wage to
- Nortel Canada's long-suffering creditors will finally begin to receive their share of more than US$4 billion to be distributed under a plan approved in January, eight years after the form
- Canada's Ocean Playground votes: It could be a close call Tuesday night in Nova Scotia's provincial election.
- An Ottawa hair stylist whose scissors tended to the tresses of some of the country's biggest political players has died.
- Canada is planning to champion the benefits of free trade and action on climate change at the G7 Summit in Taormina, Sicily, even as U.S.
- Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says he will begin the process of adopting back-to-work legislation Monday if there is no agreement in the province's construction strike.
- The Bank of Montreal saw second-quarter profits from its U.S.
- Uncertainties continue to obscure the economy's stronger-than-expected start to the year, the Bank of Canada said Wednesday as it stuck with its trendsetting interest rate of 0.5 per cent.
- Quebec construction sites fell idle Wednesday after a union alliance representing about 175,000 workers launched an unlimited general strike, crippling activity on major projects such as the Champl
- Paint the books red: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the former Wall Street trader turned author and academic, is reported to have said: ``Deficits are like putting dynamite in th
- The country's annual inflation rate once again rang in at 1.6 per cent last month as higher energy costs offset a seventh consecutive decline in grocery store prices, Statistics Canada said Friday.
- The federal government hinted Thursday that Boeing should not take future military contracts with Canada for granted, a veiled threat that coincided with a spat between the aerospace giant and riva
- The Canadian craft beer market still has room to expand even as growth in the United States begins to run out of steam, the head of Molson Coors Canada said Wednesday.
- Airlines won't be allowed to bump passengers from a flight against their will under a new passenger bill of rights introduced Tuesday by Transportation Minister Marc Garneau.
- Ontario is planning to scrap the independent tribunal that adjudicates planning and development disputes and set up a new one that will give municipalities more power.
- Governments from across the country will meet next month to debate a key question about Canada's eventual recreational-marijuana market: How much should users pay for their pot?
- The number of gasoline stations in Canada grew for the second consecutive year in 2016 after a 10-year decline that resulted in the loss of one in five outlets.
- Lobbying on lumber: Brace for another round of arm-twisting on softwood lumber.
- Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Canada's six big banks in another worrying sign about growing consumer debt and housing prices.
- The increasing number and intensity of natural disasters in Canada pushed the federal government's bills for federal help to $360 million a year since 2011 – three times what the annual cost was in
- The federal government is hoping to find strength in numbers as it tries to stamp out the illicit marijuana market.
- Bombardier says Pierre Beaudoin is planning to relinquish his executive role with the company as of June 30 but remain chairman of the board of directors and continue to work with the company's man
- The Ottawa RedBlacks say tickets for the 2017 Grey Cup are moving at a brisk pace, which is welcome news for the CFL after organizers of the 2016 league championship in Toronto struggled to fill th
- The recreational marijuana industry is expected to take a sip of less than one per cent initially out of annual Canadian alcohol sales once it becomes legal, a new analysis says.
- A regulation requiring restaurants in Ontario to display calorie counts on menus is "overly simplistic," Freshii said Tuesday after inspectors were dispatched to ensure the company was co
- The Ontario government is selling what it expects to be its final offering of shares in Hydro One, a move it says could raise more than $3 billion for the province.
- The Senate defence committee released a report Monday blasting the Trudeau government's "political decision" to purchase Super Hornet fighter jets, while all but endorsing the F-35 stealth fighter.
- The federal government says a new research lab that aims to get the most of out the country's finite wireless spectrum will eventually help Canadians avoid more dropped calls, spotty rece
- Marijuana industry trailblazer Chuck Rifici is turning to streaming – a business model often used in mining – to tackle what he says are growing pains facing the rapidly expanding sector.
- The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons is brushing off skepticism that the British will embrace its double-doubles and Timbits as it readies to open its first location in the United Kingdom n
- ABCs - Anger, Bombardier, Compensation: There could be fireworks at Bombardier's annual meeting Thursday in Montreal.
- The Ontario government says it is prepared to lower corporate taxes, if necessary, in order to keep the province competitive with the U.S.
- Air Canada (TSX:AC) says a 16 per cent increase in operating costs due to higher fuel prices and other items has resulted in a $37-million loss for the first quarter.
- The CEO and chairman of Loblaw Companies says he hasn't ruled out the possibility of selling recreational marijuana, a slight shift in position for Canada's largest grocery and drugstore
- The company that operates most of Ontario's power grid is reporting a 20 per cent drop in first-quarter profit.
- After nearly four decades in the workforce, 64-year-old Louise Plouffe is looking ahead to retirement. But Tristan Plummer, 23, is looking for work.
- The National Energy Board says two-thirds of Canada's electricity supply now comes from renewable sources such as hydro, wind power and solar energy.
- Canada's free-trade pact with Europe is poised to produce "modest" economic gains that work out to an average annual income boost of $220 per Canadian, the federal budget watchdog says in
- Shareholders in Valeant Pharmaceuticals (TSX:VRX) used the company's annual general meeting Tuesday as a forum to vent their gripes with the struggling drugmaker.
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. has placed a firm order for 10 Boeing Dreamliners, which will have the range and fuel efficiency to serve new destinations in Asia, South America and expand the airline's…
- The U.S. government is investigating whether General Motors should add about 312,000 vehicles to a 2015 recall for headlights that can suddenly go dark.
- Growing optimism: Farm and fertilizer supplier Agrium releases financial results on Monday and holds its annual meeting on Tuesday in Calgary.
- Bombardier is rejecting Boeing's claim in a complaint filed with the U.S. government that it has dumped its new CSeries commercial jet into the United States at below cost.
- Ontario's Liberal government delivered its first balanced budget in a decade on Thursday. Here are five things you need to know about the financial plan:
- Ontario's Liberal government is promising to inject billions of new dollars into health care in its first balanced budget in a decade, a fiscal plan designed to appeal to nearly everyone
- Members of a Canadian class-action lawsuit against Volkswagen can submit claims for reimbursement starting on Friday after an Ontario judge ordered the car manufacturer to pay $2.1 billion to affec
- Canada's science minister says universities aren't doing the heavy lifting to appoint more female research chairs, so she wants to force their hands.
- A boom in craft distilling in the United States and increasing demand from curious millennials acquiring a palate for well-made spirits have inspired a burgeoning microdistillery scene in Canada, w
- Celebrity investor and reality-TV star Kevin O'Leary is quitting the federal Conservative leadership race and throwing his support behind Quebec rival Maxime Bernier.
- Bell Canada says it's on the cusp of launching a new streaming product to attract customers who prefer to watch video such as Netflix through the Internet instead of traditional TV services.
- The owner of Tim Hortons and Burger King is reporting flat sales at its established locations in the first quarter but a nine per cent increase in revenue, which was above analyst estimat
- President Donald Trump's surprisingly caustic complaints about trade with Canada in recent days could be setting the stage for a broader renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agr
- Metro Inc. was able to increase its profit and beat analyst estimates for the second quarter, despite an overall decline in Canadian food prices.
- The United States has fired the opening shot in a latest softwood-lumber war against Canada, with the Trump administration announcing its first batch of duties on imported wood in the nei
- Statistics Canada says wholesale sales fell 0.2 per cent to $58.9 billion in February, led by lower sales in the personal and household goods and the food, beverage and tobacco subsectors
- Closing curtain: Ontario's securities regulator hears closing submissions Monday in the case against Garth Drabinsky for his role in the Livent Entertainment fraud scandal nearly t
- The country's annual inflation rate slowed to an unexpectedly weak 1.6 per cent last month as the continued decline in food prices played a big role in offsetting the higher cost of gasol
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX:WJA) will launch a new discount carrier later this year in a bid to offer travellers a no-frills, low-cost option, the company said on Thursday.
- Ontario is following British Columbia's lead, promising to introduce a tax on foreign homebuyers that the province hopes will help cool the frantic housing market, easing concerns about a
- Canada's clean technology sector, once pegged as a growth industry with the potential to be worth $50 billion by the year 2022, is bleeding money and falling behind international competit
- The federal government's plans for legalizing recreational marijuana has many would-be players looking to carve out a role for themselves in the emerging market, including pharmaceutical
- Rogers Communications Inc. reported a nearly 28 per cent jump in net income for its first quarter, a day before new CEO Joe Natale formally takes the helm of the company.
- Indochino is mulling over the idea of an initial public offering following the recent splash Canadian retailers Aritzia and Canada Goose made in their trading debuts, says the CEO of the
- A senior Bank of Canada official says while the country's poised to reap economic benefits from technological progress, it must also brace for potentially painful side effects like job losses and g
- Sarah Blakely recalls feeling some trepidation when she and her husband shelled out more than $300,000 for a modest 1 1/2-storey house in a less-desirable part of Toronto.
- Ottawa may have a reputation as a quiet government city, but there are a number of ways the capital is loosening its collar and transforming ahead of Canada's 150th birthday – a time when 1.75 mill
- Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa is giving strong hints that the government's much-anticipated house affordability package will include measures targeting real estate speculators, o
- Humans need not apply? Carolyn Wilkins, the senior deputy governor at the Bank of Canada, will deliver a speech Tuesday on issues that have gained more attention lately.
- Adults 18 and older will be able to legally buy and cultivate small amounts of marijuana for personal use, while selling the drug to a minor will become a serious new criminal offence under the fed
- Loblaw said Thursday that it plans to open 30 new stores and renovate more than 500 existing stores as it continues to adapt to changes in the food retail sector.
- The Bank of Canada held its trendsetting interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, despite a recent run of stronger-than-expected data, saying it believes the economy has yet to show it can stick to th
- Moody's Investors Service has released a report that identifies Canada as one of four Aaa-rated countries that are exposed to a potential housing market corre
- A new analysis says governments can wrestle recreational-pot proceeds away from criminals – just so long as they're not
- Canada will introduce new legislation this spring that will address the problem of travellers being bumped from flights, the federal government said Monday, as the violent dragging of a passenger o
- Bombardier appears unable to shake off public anger over hefty pay packages to its senior executives.
- Charm offensive: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne heads to Illinois on Monday to meet with business leaders and Gov. Bruce Rauner to deliver a pro-trade message.
- A new internal-trade deal that will remove domestic trade barriers is expected to add billions of dollars to the economy, but an agreement on booze will have to wait.
- After recent rounds of mass layoffs, Postmedia is warning that it still needs to cut costs after revenue plummeted by 13.5 per cent in its latest quarter.
- Hudson's Bay Co. says it's focused on cutting costs as it faces a challenging retail environment in Canada and abroad, but that doesn't mean it has completely shut the door on acquisitions.
- What a difference a year makes.
- Homegrown artists from the worlds of music, dance and theatre, visual and media arts will converge for the National Arts Centre's Canada Scene festivals which coincide with Canada 150 commemoration
- Allegations of aggressive, and in some cases illegal, sales practices at several of Canada's biggest banks have put top
- Two of Canada's friendliest provinces are in a polite tug of war over which can claim bragging rights as the catalyst of
- Canada's economy hit a pothole in February, as an unexpected trade deficit broke up a series of recent positive surprises.
- Upstart Conservative and New Democrat candidates gave their heavily favoured Liberal rivals a bit of a scare Monday in a
- Ontario's first cap-and-trade auction sold out all current allowances, giving the new market a strong start, but the pro
- A company that lost a $428-million federal contract in 2007 is calling on Canada's top court to weigh in on the long-run
- Bombardier further retreated Sunday on a hefty pay increase to six senior executives, announcing they would defer receiv
- Positive economics: The week will kick off Monday with the release of the Bank of Canada's business out
- The economy kicked off the year with a bang, rising faster than expected in January, providing further evidence of robust growth but not enough to alter expectations that the central bank will main
- BlackBerry's shares jumped Friday after it reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results and said it would be expanding its software licensing business following its decision last year to stop
- Producers want permission to brand their products and provide medical cannabis on a tax-free basis.
- The Ontario government will be setting up a stand-alone regulator to oversee the province's home builders.
- As governments across Canada fund services with billions in deficit spending, Quebec announced a third consecutive balanced budget Tuesday containing modest personal income-tax cuts.
- BlackBerry says it's opening its current smartphone operating system to competitors such as IBM, AirWatch and Citrix, allowing them to manage BlackBerry 10 devices in corporate workplaces.
- A new report is urging the Trudeau Liberals to make their new, experimental infrastructure bank a centre for helping cities and provinces sell off existing assets, rather than just helping to build
- The Trudeau government is still wrestling with how to tax recreational pot, even as it indicates it's poised to introduce long-awaited legalization legislation next month in advance of April 20 – t
- Citing senior federal sources, CBC News and the Globe and Mail reported that the Liberal government is planning to table legislation ahead of April 20, a symbolic date on which festivals are held…
- Fewer Canadians are being turned away at the land border in recent months despite mounting concerns that Donald Trump's immigration policies are making it much harder to cross
- Here are some of the events that are expected to make headlines in the days ahead:
- The annual pace of inflation in Canada ticked lower in February as higher prices for gasoline were offset in part by declining costs for fresh fruit and vegetables.
- The Trudeau government unveiled a budgetary crystal ball Wednesday that foresees slightly smaller deficits and a growth-lifting plan that places "big bets" on what the feds predict will be high-pot
- The future is coming at you, fast, and the Liberal government says it knows you're getting anxious – and potentially angry.
- The amount Canadians owe compared with how much they earn hit another record high last year.
- An Ottawa vibrator maker accused of secretly tracking the intimate habits of thousands of its customers through a smartphone app has agreed to spend $5 million to settle a privacy lawsuit in the Un
- A Halifax-based law firm has launched a class-action lawsuit against Ottawa-area pot firm Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) and i
- Ontario's top court will not hear an appeal from two former Nortel Networks Corp.
- Canopy Growth Corp.
- A security breach at Statistics Canada's main website prompted the government to shut down a number of services over the
- An $800-million commitment central to the Trudeau government's economic growth strategy is expected to be divvied up wit
- Corporate ledger: Just a smattering of earnings this week. Some notables include Quebecor, HNZ Group and Spin Master.
- A foreign buyers' tax is back on the table in Ontario, with the finance minister saying Thursday it's one possible option he's looking at to cool the housing market.
- If the Trudeau government plans to take steps to address the economic risks of the Donald Trump presidency, they won't be in the upcoming federal budget.
- Government officials say they've turned the corner in trying to fix the troubled Phoenix civil service pay system.
- The federal government unveiled a two-pronged effort Thursday aimed at improving Canada's ability to foster growth at a time when a rising tide of protectionism threatens to hurt the country's econ
- Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the federal government's latest budget on March 22, his first amid the econ
- Mining for money: The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada holds its annual convention in Toronto from Sunday until Wednesday.
- Blackberry's shift from smartphone maker to a software company is complete but branding remains challenging for the company with a legacy in hardware design, says one of its top executives.
- Mitel Networks Corp. (TSX:MNW) says it will sell its mobile division in a deal worth more than $385 million.
- Self-driving vehicles are hitting Ontario streets, after the province became the first in Canada to open a pilot project to test the automated vehicles on public roads.
- The Business Development Bank of Canada is launching a $135 million fund that will invest in entrepreneurial startup companies in the energy and clean technology sector.
- A settlement has been reached to end a lengthy battle over divvying up the US$7.3 billion raised in Nortel Networks Corp.'s bankruptcy liquidation.
- A nearly eight-year legal battle over how to divide what remains of Nortel Networks Corp.
- BlackBerry will stop making its signature smartphones, the company said Wednesday after facing repeated calls to leave the hardware business that was once the basis of its reputation as a global te
- Business software company OpenText Corp. (TSX:OTC) says it has signed a deal to buy Dell EMC's enterprise content division for US$1.62 billion.
- For 55 years, Giant Tiger's smiling feline mascot has beckoned shoppers in small towns and those driving up to the cottage.
- The 2017 Grey Cup will take place at TD Place Stadium in Ottawa.
- Shoppers in Ottawa have headed to Farm Boy grocery stores for years, fans of its high-quality fruits and vegetables, locally produced artisanal cheeses and private-label soups and tourtieres.
- The association representing Canada's defence industry is defending the controversial $15-billion sale of light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia by an Ontario company.
- Clothing retailer Aeropostale is shuttering all its stores in Canada, as it files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S.
- The UFC's first show in Ottawa wasted little time selling out.
- Canada is investing in a new tool for the International Space Station that will help astronauts take a closer look at the many dings and dents all over its hull.
- QNX Software Systems, BlackBerry's Ottawa-based automotive division, has lifted the hood on a slate of new software for the rapidly evolving driverless car market.
- Nova Scotia's business lending agency is giving a payroll rebate worth up to $520,000 over five years to a Ottawa-based tech firm that specializes in mobile app development.
- The Ottawa Senators' value dropped seven per cent in the past year, according to the annual Forbes valuation of National Hockey League teams.
- Shopify and Uber are working together to offer same-day local delivery starting today in three major U.S. cities.
- Shopify Inc.
- Shopify Inc. is raising its profile in Waterloo with plans to hire more people for a larger office in the city.
- Twitter users soon will be able to shop with a new "Buy Now" button from the e-commerce company Shopify.
- Shares of e-commerce startup Shopify Inc. surged Thursday after the Ottawa-based company announced it was teaming with Amazon to help online merchants grow.
- The head of BlackBerry subsidiary QNX is retiring from the company he helped found by the end of this year.
- IBM says it will pay $1 billion to acquire medical imaging and software company Merge Healthcare, part of an effort to boost the health care capabilities of Watson, its cognitive computing system b
- Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has been discharged from a Toronto hospital after undergoing a successful liver transplant last month.
- Canada will break a record without kicking a ball at the Women's World Cup.
- Has Chris Knight bitten off more than he can chew?
- Corruption allegations against senior FIFA officials have put sponsors of the upcoming Women's World Cup in Canada in a tight spot, says a sports marketing expert.
- Doctors say Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk is recovering well after his liver transplant earlier this week at a Toronto hospital, as is the anonymous donor who made the life-saving sur
- Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk underwent a successful liver transplant, the team announced Tuesday night.
- Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk urgently needs a liver transplant and the NHL club has put out a call for a potential "live donor."
- Newly minted CFL commissioner Jeffrey Orridge says once younger Canadians are exposed to his league, they'll be hooked.
- Whether celebrating happy hour, going on a date or indulging in a liquid lunch, Ottawa's cocktail scene has plenty on tap.
- Rockstar Consortium – a group of companies that includes Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Microsoft and Sony – has agreed to sell roughly 4,000 of the patents it bought from Nortel during its bankruptc
- The Ontario Securities Commission has closed its investigation into three former Nortel Networks executives who were acquitted of fraud last year.
- A U.S. court has approved a settlement that would make Nortel Networks' U.S.
- Two Ottawa companies were bursting with pride Wednesday after playing small but important roles in the historic landing of a spacecraft on the surface of a comet.
- The Canadian Soccer Association is already turning its attention to next year's FIFA Women's World Cup, and is setting some lofty attendance goals.
- An Ontario judge overseeing the Canadian portion of the Nortel Networks bankruptcy has approved a settlement on one of the side issues that involves creditors of an international division o
- A settlement has been reached with one of the international divisions of Nortel Networks over their piece of the former technology giant's remaining assets.
- A settlement over how to divide up a portion of the US$7.3 billion made from the sale of certain Nortel Networks assets may be nearing completion.
- Trips to your local mechanic might become less frequent as new technology develops that could make it possible for cars to essentially fix minor glitches themselves.
- BlackBerry has struck a three-year mobile payment agreement with EnStream, a joint venture between Canada's three biggest telecom companies - Bell (TSX:BCE), Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.
- BlackBerry chief executive John Chen says the chances of the struggling smartphone maker surviving have improved and he now puts the odds at 80 per cent.
- Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel.
- Microsoft bills its new Surface tablet computer as a laptop replacement -- and it means it this time.
- A complex trial to determine how billions of dollars in Nortel Networks Corp.'s remaining assets are to be divided begins Monday in a pricey cross-border hearing that's considered the first
- The Canadian Space Agency has awarded communications giant MDA two contracts to assess possible Canadian contributions to future space missions beyond low-Earth orbit.
- Wi-LAN Inc. (TSX:WIN) has filed an appeal against a jury decision that went against it involving a patent dispute with Apple Inc.
- Japanese officials say they believed they were also negotiating with Canada and Mexico when they struck a controversial side agreement with the United States on automobiles last year during the Tra
- The federal government is closely studying recommendations on how to help Canadian tech startups grow into global success stories – transformations that could eventually provide a boost for the ail
- Smiths Falls-based Tweed Marijuana is pairing up with weed-smoking, gin-and-juice sipping Snoop Dogg in a deal that will grant the company exclusive rights to use certain content and brands owned b
- The CEO of Ford's Canadian operations says risks posed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the automotive manufacturing sector are among the topics she plans to raise in a meeting with federal gove
- Canada needs to avoid becoming complacent on the innovation front if it hopes to reverse a brain drain that has top researchers heading south of the border and overseas to complete their work, the
- The Lowe's home improvement chain is aiming to buy Quebec-based Rona Inc. for $3.2 billion cash in a friendly deal supported by the directors and management of both companies.
- An independent report has produced a number of prescriptions for Canada's ailing military procurement system, but stops short of suggesting how the Harper government should administer the cures.
- If Canada abandons the purchase of F-35 fighter jets it could have negative consequences for companies that currently supply components for the costly aircraft, the head of landing gear company Her
- The cascading multibillion-dollar cost of the celebrated F-35 stealth aircraft has prompted the federal government to "hit the reset button" on its controversial effort to replace Canada's aging fi
- Amid the avalanche of figures, statistics, estimates and soothing political assurances coming this week on the Conservative government's troubled stealth fighter program, one report will warn about
