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Canada’s unemployment rate  rose to 6.7 per cent in February as the economy shed 84,000 jobs in both services-producing and goods-producing industries,  Statistics Canada said Friday. Economists had been expecting a gain of 10,000 jobs. Wholesale and retail trade suffered the most job losses, with 18,000 fewer people working in the sector, while “other services” such as personal and repair services lost…

Taking on a United States stock ticker will make Canada’s largest space technology company more accessible to American investors and put it in a strong position to pursue acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe, the company’s chief executive said.   MDA Space Ltd. made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday with a US$300- million initial public…

Canada’s Opposition leader is launching his trip to the U.S. with a stop in Detroit to talk about the automotive industry and cross-border trade, per a press release.

There’s now a case to be made for an interest rate hike this year, says one economist, as the Bank of Canada gets set to announce its next rate decision on March 18. Governor Tiff Macklem, during the last Bank of Canada rate announcement on Jan. 28, said interest rates were at about the right…

After a months-long fight with his landlord, Shannon Lucas accepted a $40,000 payout to move out of the North Bay, Ont., townhouse where he lived for eight years, but says he would give it all back if he could stay.

Environment Canada says winds could reach as high as 90 km/h Friday.

Pierre Poilievre visits Windsor-Detroit on Friday and is expected to focus on the auto sector. Kingsville’s Corbin Watson, who’s Canada’s men’s goalie, looks to backstop the Paralympian hockey team into the Gold Medal game.

Thousands of Canadians who pirated a copy of the movie Hellboy: The Crooked Man can no longer count on internet anonymity to download and share movies for free with impunity. Hellboy Productions, Inc., has argued successfully in Federal Court that Cogeco Connexion Inc., a Canadian broadband business, must hand over the names associated with over…

U.S. President Donald Trump has developed a penchant for Florsheim shoes, turning the 134-year-old Chicago brand into an unexpected status symbol inside the White House. Trump ‘s fixation on the American men’s shoe brand began late last year, according to Esquire Magazine . And he apparently likes one of their cap-toe Oxford models so much…

Because Canada is a net exporter of oil, it doesn’t need to keep reserves. But some say that rule is outdated, and our at-capacity oil industry can’t do much to help fill the gap created by stalled tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.