Chinese tariffs on canola oil, meal would be disastrous for Saskatchewan
China is planning to impose 100 per cent tariffs on canola oil, meal and peas in response to Canada putting levies on Chinese-made electric vehicles, steel and aluminum. “The people that will be ...
New Brunswick premier says cutting power to Maine still an option
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says it’s unlikely the province will cut off the electricity NB Power supplies to northern ...
Variable-rate mortgages continue to lure borrowers, despite the risks
For uninsured borrowers, there’s less competition and lenders incur more costs: no insurance protection from defaults, less access to cheap securitization, higher regulatory capital costs, etc. As a ...
Tools, electronics, sports equipment from the U.S. hit with Canadian counter-tariffs
Canada’s extensive counter-tariff list focuses on American steel and aluminum products, including a wide variety of ...
BC Hydro bans Tesla from charger rebate program
BC Hydro says Tesla products have been removed from its electric vehicle rebate program as part of the province’s fight back against United States tariff threats. It says on its website that the move ...
Canadians get wealthier again, hitting a new high of $17.5 trillion — but trade storm clouds loom
Total household net worth rose in all four quarters of 2024, hitting $17.495 trillion in the latest quarter, according to Statistics Canada. This means households ended the year with a bang — with ...
Time to 'pass the baton': CIBC CEO's retirement leaves some analysts surprised
CEOs of Canadian banks tend to retire after a decade and Dodig is the second Big Six CEO to retire this year, following Toronto-Dominion Bank’s Bharat Masrani, who left his post in February. Royal ...
Forget tariffs, Trump may be targeting the Great Lakes and Canada’s freshwater next
The Great Lakes are safeguarded by diplomatic agreements and subject to strict protections about water use, which, for ...
Top Canadian Grocer Says Sales of US Products 'Rapidly' Dropping
The Stellarton, Nova Scotia-based company typically sourced 12% of products from the US by dollar value, Medline said on the company’s fiscal third quarter earnings call Thursday — but that number is ...
Lutnick praises U.K. and Mexico, blasts Canada on trade retaliation
United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick praised the United Kingdom and Mexico for refraining from engaging in tit-for-tat tariff hikes with the U.S., warning that those trading partners that ...
New Cohere AI model rivals latest versions of DeepSeek, ChatGPT
The performance of Command A puts Cohere in the same league as OpenAI, which sparked a race to advance AI when it released its chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022, and DeepSeek, the Chinese chatbot whose ...
Sales of U.S. products 'dropping' at Empire-owned grocers amid tariff threats
Empire Co. Ltd.’s chief executive says the grocer is seeing sales of products from the United States “rapidly dropping” as ...