Bank of Canada holds interest rate, views oil slump as temporary soft patch
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
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Shoppers Drug Mart lights up medical cannabis e-commerce sales portal
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. Product information
Small business and the tax revolt
The dust has settled: Where do we stand?
Five Canadian business stories to watch this week
Bank conference The RBC Capital Markets Bank CEO Conference kicks off in Toronto on Tuesday. The event will feature presentations from the CEOs of Canada’s
Tech CEOs say Liberal innovation agenda does little to help firms scale up: poll
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
Gender pay gap widest at top of the corporate ladder, new report says
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
Federal tax changes come into effect as new year begins
The new year brings with it tax changes at the federal level that will affect just about every Canadian, as well as small businesses. One
Liberals look to infrastructure bank to finance rural, remote broadband internet
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
Hello, proptech: Real estate industry poised for a tech disruption in 2019
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
Royal Bank of Canada denies report it had access to users’ Facebook messages
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.
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