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QUEBEC: Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard on March 18 tabled a 2026-27 budget that projects an C$8.6 billion deficit and keeps the province’s pledge to return to a balanced budget by 2029-30, setting out a slower deficit reduction path while

OTTAWA: Canada lost 84,000 jobs in February, the largest monthly decline in employment in nearly 17 years outside pandemic disruptions, while the unemployment rate rose to 6.7% from 6.5% in January, according to Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey released Friday.

OTTAWA: Canada has reached an agreement with Mexico’s Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria that will allow shipments of Canadian fresh potatoes for consumption or processing to enter the Mexican market, opening a new export channel for a

OTTAWA: Canada’s steel sector is set to receive C$70 million in retraining and employment support as the federal government moves to cushion workers from tariff-related disruption that hit the industry in 2025 and continues to shape labour policy in 2026.

NEW DELHI: India and Canada issued a joint leaders’ statement on Monday after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during Carney’s official visit to India from Feb. 27 to March 2. The statement said

TORONTO: Canadians now say they need about C$1.7 million to retire comfortably, while a growing share doubt they will reach that mark, according to Bank of Montreal’s latest annual retirement survey released Feb. 24. The survey put the average retirement

VICTORIA: British Columbia’s government raised personal income taxes and widened the provincial sales tax base in its 2026 budget, pairing the measures with a multi year fiscal plan that projects larger deficits and rising debt as spending pressures and borrowing

MEXICO CITY: Canadian and Mexican officials held trade-focused meetings in Mexico City this week alongside one of Canada’s largest business delegations to Mexico in decades, as companies and industry groups seek to deepen commercial ties across North America. The visit

VAUGHAN: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Feb. 5 unveiled a new national automotive strategy in Vaughan, saying Canada will “build the cars of the future and sell them to the world” as the industry shifts toward lower-emission vehicles, advanced

OTTAWA: Canada’s federal government has moved to delay the start of its Electric Vehicle Availability Standard by waiving 2026 model year vehicles from the program and launching a review of the rule, as officials prepared to brief reporters on a