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Quebec to cut taxes for small, medium-sized businesses in next budget: Couillard
SHANGHAI – The Quebec Liberals are planning to cut taxes for small- and medium-sized businesses…
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock…
Competition Bureau takes on Ticketmaster, Live Nation over alleged deceptive pricing
Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. allegedly used a deceptive practice known…
Hydro-Quebec awarded major, 20-year electricity deal from Massachusetts
MONTREAL – Quebec’s hydro utility has been awarded the biggest export contract in its history…
Canadian arm of U.K. construction giant Carillion files for creditor protection
Carillion Canada has been granted protection from creditors by the Ontario Superior Court under the…
Germany unit of Canadian lithium battery company Electrovaya declares insolvency
TORONTO – Electrovaya Inc. says its Litarion subsidiary in Germany has begun insolvency proceedings as…
Gordon Ramsay opening steakhouse in Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Gordon Ramsay will open a steakhouse this summer at Harrah’s casino…
Top male BBC earners agree to pay cut after gender gap furor
LONDON – The BBC reported Friday that six of its highest-paid male broadcasters have agreed…
Annual pace of inflation slows, consumer price index up 1.9 per cent in December
OTTAWA – The overall annual pace of inflation slowed to 1.9 per cent in December…
Privacy commissioner: it should be easier to remove, de-index online information
OTTAWA – The federal privacy commissioner says Canadians need better tools to protect their online…
US hits Ukraine separatists, Russia officials with sanctions
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration said Friday it will punish 21 people and nine companies…
Apotex president and CEO steps down amid allegations of trade secret leaks
TORONTO – Apotex Inc. president and CEO Jeremy Desai resigned from the generic drug giant…
American farmers in favour of free trade push for NAFTA deal in Montreal
MONTREAL – A group of pro-NAFTA American farmers descended on Montreal on Friday and expressed…
Mail, Japan and Canadian-style populism: how politics touched us this week
OTTAWA – First Nova Scotia’s Jamie Baillie, then Ontario’s Patrick Brown, and finally Ottawa’s Kent…
Ottawa poised to help newspapers in coming federal budget
OTTAWA – The federal government is signalling that the country’s newspaper industry is set to…
Report: Dutch spies caught Russian hackers on tape
AMSTERDAM – The Netherlands’ spy service broke into the computers used by a powerful Russian…
Mail, Japan and Canadian-style populism: how politics touched us this week
OTTAWA – First Nova Scotia’s Jamie Baillie, then Ontario’s Patrick Brown, and finally Ottawa’s Kent…
NAFTA talks ‘more positive’: Signs point to emerging back-and-forth negotiation
MONTREAL – The single biggest question looming over the current round of NAFTA negotiations was…
Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week
TORONTO – Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming…
Canada, Mexico tell U.S. on NAFTA investor-state protection: Get in, or get out
MONTREAL – Canada and Mexico are applying pressure on the United States to decide whether…
Ingvar Kamprad, who founded furniture giant IKEA, dies at 91
STOCKHOLM – IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, who turned a small-scale mail order business started on…
‘Energy hunters’: Bitcoin miners search for cheap, innovative energy sources
CALGARY – For most Canadians, Drumheller conjures up images of dinosaur bones and ancient fossils,…
Copyright board boosts songwriters’ music streaming fees
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal copyright board has raised the music streaming royalties for songwriters…
Shares of Ballard Power Systems up after responding to short seller’s report
VANCOUVER – Shares of Ballard Power Systems Inc. shot up in early trading after the…