By David Lawder TORONTO – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday, pledging cooperation on issues ranging from …
By Nichola Saminather TORONTO – Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is “comfortable” with the quality of its mortgage book, but is on the lookout for …
OTTAWA – Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland expressed confidence on Thursday in the Bank of Canada’s ability to rein in surging inflation and keep price …
OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said his government was watching rising interest rates “with concern,” when asked about the impact higher …
By Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO – Two sanitation companies are expected to break Brazil’s IPO drought in the coming months. The sector has been buoyed …
By Julie Gordon Canada’s budget deficit in fiscal 2021/22 shrank to C$95.57 billion ($75.02 billion) from C$314.00 billion in the previous year, as emergency spending …
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL – A sweeping law adopted by Quebec on Tuesday to promote French usage is elevating already simmering tensions with indigenous groups, …
By Fergal Smith TORONTO – Canada’s main stock index is expected to advance less than previously thought this year as economic growth slows and central …
(Reuters) – Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, will hold an election on June 2 with incumbent Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford favored in the polls. …
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA – Incumbent Progressive Conservative Doug Ford is leading the race to win a second term as Ontario premier with promises of …
By Emma-Victoria Farr and Sachin Ravikumar FRANKFURT -Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to buy British home repair services firm HomeServe for 4.08 billion pounds …
(Reuters) – Telus Corp said on Tuesday it would invest $17 billion in network infrastructure, operations and spectrum across Canada’s Alberta over the next four …
By Tom Balmforth KYIV – The world will do everything possible to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin loses his war in Ukraine, including keeping …
(Reuters) – Canada’s Commissioner of Competition intends to oppose Rogers Communications Inc’s proposed C$20 billion ($16 billion) merger with Shaw Communications Inc, the companies said …
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA – The Canadian government’s plan to ease runaway housing prices by rapidly ramping up the pace of home construction risks pushing …
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Canada’s most populous province of Ontario on Thursday forecast steadily declining deficits over the medium term helped by a strong …
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO – Canada is locking up more people in immigration detention without charge after the numbers fell during the pandemic, government …
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO – Canadians nearing retirement outnumbered those entering the workforce by a record margin in 2021, census data released on Wednesday …
(Reuters) – A Teamsters group, which represents roughly 7,000 Amazon.com Inc fulfillment center workers across Canada’s Alberta and the Northwest Territories, has filed an application …
By Fergal Smith TORONTO – As the Bank of Canada opens the door to hiking interest rates above a neutral setting for the first time …
(Reuters) – TD Bank Group will offer eligible employees a 3% increase to their base pay or a one-time cash reward effective July 1, Chief …
(Reuters) – Canada’s Shopify Inc, will change its compensation package to give employees the flexibility to choose between cash and stock, looking to attract and …
TORONTO – Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) Chief Executive Officer Victor Dodig on Thursday called on policy makers to focus on generating revenue by …
(Reuters) – Ontario’s ruling Progressive Conservative government said on Tuesday it plans to raise the hourly minimum wage by 50 Canadian cents beginning in October, …
(Reuters) – The oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) said on Friday it has appointed Tiff Macklem as its new chair, …
MONTREAL – DHL Express Division, an affiliate of Deutsche Post DHL Group, struck a deal with Cargojet Inc, which would give the German company an …
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY – Canadian indigenous peoples meet Pope Francis this week to ask him to apologise for the Catholic Church’s role in …
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO – Canada is increasingly relying on temporary residents to meet its labor force needs, according to a Reuters analysis of …
By Nichola Saminather and Julie Gordon TORONTO – Toronto realtor Nasma Ali has noted a marked slowdown in housing demand in the red-hot Greater Toronto …
By Rod Nickel and Ann Maria Shibu – Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) halted operations and locked out workers over a labor dispute early on Sunday, …
By Julie Gordon and Ismail Shakil -Canada’s annual inflation rate accelerated in February to hit a fresh 30-year high, with broad price gains hitting consumers …
LONDON – Russia said on Tuesday it had put U.S. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a dozen top U.S. officials on …
By Alexander Schummer and Fergal Smith TORONTO – As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupts the global economy and drives up oil, gold and industrial metal …
BUCHAREST – Western states will announce more sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Monday during a …
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO – A three-week occupation of the center of Canada’s capital last month resulted in part from police underestimating anti-government protesters …
By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta – Canada’s biggest oil-producing province Alberta is expecting its first budget surplus since 2014/15, Finance Minister Travis Toews said on …
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA – A three-week long protest in Canada against pandemic measures that snarled trade and shuttered Ottawa’s core likely cost billions in …
– Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades in an attempt to restore normalcy in Ottawa, parts of which have been paralyzed …
By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON – Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stepped well beyond economic policy at a G20 finance meeting on Friday …
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s support of vaccine mandates in fighting COVID-19 helped him win re-election five months ago, but …
By Steve Scherer, David Ljunggren and Nichola Saminather OTTAWA -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to …
– Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said the government had invoked rarely used special measures allowing him to tackle protests that have shut …
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA – Faced with truckers’ protests popping up across the nation, and hampering cross border trade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday …
An Olympian who left team Canada’s bobsledding team after filing harassment allegations won the gold medal Sunday for the U.S., multiple sources reported. Kaillie Humphries, …
OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday plans to invoke rarely used emergency measures to tackle ongoing protests that have shut border crossings, …
By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta – The Canadian province of Alberta on Wednesday formally initiated a trade challenge to recover its investment in the Keystone …
By Nichola Saminather TORONTO – Canada’s largest stock market operator, TMX Group, plans to launch its first cryptocurrency futures product in response to institutional investors’ …
(Drops inaccurate reference to Crescent Point being an oil sands company in last paragraph) By Shariq Khan – Canadian oil and gas producer Crescent Point …
When donors pledged money to support the protesting truckers in Canada’s Freedom Convoy, they believed their hard-earned money would be given to truckers who are …
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA -Canada’s economy climbed to above pre-pandemic levels for the first time in November, bolstering a strong fourth quarter even as activity …