Canada sees modest employment growth in March, jobless rate unchanged at 6.7%

Canada’s job growth remained subdued in March while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.7 per cent from the prior month, data showed on Friday, signalling continued slack, or underutilized ...

MTY Food Group reports $36.9-million first-quarter profit, sales down from year ago

MTY Food Group Inc. MTY-T -2.59% reported a first-quarter profit attributable to owners of $36.9-million, boosted by a foreign exchange gain related to the revaluation of U.S.-dollar denominated ...

Pitch perfect: Inside the massive effort to grow World Cup grass

Millions of dollars and years of research have gone into ensuring uniformity across 16 playing fields for FIFA’s tournament ...

Corus Entertainment posts $6.1-million loss in second quarter, revenue down 15%

Corus Entertainment Inc. CJR-B-T reported a loss attributable to shareholders of $6.1-million in its latest quarter as its revenue fell 15 per cent compared with a year earlier. The television and ...

Melania Trump denies relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

U.S. first lady says she never had relationship with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell and claims to the contrary are defaming her ...

Italy’s Eni to take stake in Canada’s Nouveau Monde Graphite in $70-million investment

Minority interest gives it access to a critical material used in battery storage and other energy transition technologies ...

U.S. and Iran prepare for ceasefire talks as Kuwait comes under attack

Negotiators from Iran and the United States prepared on Friday for high-level talks planned to start a day later in Islamabad, seeking to steady a ceasefire teetering over Israel and Hezbollah ...

Premarket: U.S. stock futures steady ahead of inflation data, Mideast truce in focus

U.S. stock index futures were flat on Friday as investors awaited a key inflation report and monitored geopolitical developments surrounding an uneasy truce in the Middle East. The announcement ⁠of a ...

China’s Xi talks peace, denounces independence as he meets Taiwan opposition leader

Taiwan’s future lies with China, President Xi Jinping said Friday, as he hosted Taiwanese opposition leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing, his first summit with a high-level politician from the self-ruled ...

U.S. trade court weighs legality of Trump’s 10% global tariff

Several states and small businesses say it sidesteps a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated most of U.S. President’s previous tariffs ...

Oil sees modest gains but set for largest weekly loss in 10 months after ceasefire

“The Strait of ‌Hormuz remains effectively constrained and operation of the global oil system is ​far from normal,” said Saxo Bank analyst Ole ⁠Hansen, adding that futures markets have priced in a ...

Shippers weigh unusual routes amid persistently high air cargo rates, ocean gridlock

Cost to ship air cargo has soared due to strong demand and high jet fuel prices in the wake of Iran’s continued blockage of the Strait of Hormuz ...