Tag Archives: Economy

Alberta's oil-based economy, already reeling by reduced demand due to the novel coronavirus, is now getting a gut punch from global prices. The spiral of oil prices has accelerated due ...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling for spending cuts and waste reduction in the coming federal budget to unleash the economy and create jobs. The Tories say reckle...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau was told weeks into the Liberals' second mandate that Canadians are most worried about affordability in areas where governments have a lot of power over prices -...

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says the novel cornonavirus outbreak is hammering Alberta's economy and may force his government to abandon its core election promise to balance the books by 2023....

TORONTO - The federal government is preparing to undertake measures designed to protect Canadians and the country's economy from the outbreak of a novel form of coronavirus. Finance Minister Bill Morn...

OTTAWA - The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent as the economy added 30,300 net new jobs in February, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said th...

TORONTO - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the federal government will soon announce support for Canadians who have to be quarantined in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. He also s...

VIENNA - The OPEC oil cartel is calling for a deep production cut to keep crude prices from falling further as disruption to global business from the coronavirus slashes demand from air travel and ind...

OTTAWA - A federal push to get more Indigenous-owned businesses to bid on government contracts has been slowed by issues over how the data is collected since before last summer, according to internal ...

WINNIPEG - The leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party has written to the prime minister to ask for a debt relief program for individuals and governments across Canada - a request that one economist...