Contributor ReportsCanada approves $6.1B in projects in month
Source: United Press International
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Dec 08 06:35:06 -0800 2009 | business-news
Statistics Canada said Monday that the value of building permits issued in October rose 18 percent from September to $6.1 billion. The value of residential building projects issued permits in the month rose 3.8 percent to $3.4 billion, the third...
Canada bank rate stays at quarter percent
Source: United Press International
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Dec 08 14:19:41 -0800 2009 | business-news
The Bank of Canada said Tuesday it was maintaining its one-quarter percent interest rate and said it plans to leave it there until the second quarter of 2010. In its statement from Ottawa, bank Governor Mark Carney and advisors said...
Canadian jobless claims up 7.1 percent
Source: United Press International
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 07:51:57 -0800 2009 | business-news
The number of Canadians receiving federal jobless benefits rose 7.1 percent on a monthly basis in September to 818,000, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. Disbursements of Employment Insurance increased by 54,300 after two months of declines, the report said.
Strollers can cause finger damage
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 10 06:08:01 -0800 2009 | business-news
A Maple Leaf Foods plant that was scrubbed from top to bottom after a deadly listeriosis outbreak continued to have problems in the months that followed, newly released documents show. More than one million Maclaren strollers have been recalled in...
Canada sees first inflation in five months
Source: United Press International
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Wed Nov 18 06:51:38 -0800 2009 | business-news
Canada experienced it first increase in the cost of living in five months in October compared with a year earlier, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. "Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in October compared with October 2008, following a 0.9 percent decline...
Canada's economy back in the black -- just
Source: United Press International
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Dec 01 06:01:20 -0800 2009 | business-news
The agency said the gross domestic product rose 0.4 percent in September, but 0.1 percent for the whole third quarter. "Final domestic demand was bolstered by a second consecutive quarterly gain in personal expenditures and the first expansion in business...
Consumer bankruptcies continue to soar
Source: Canada.com
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Sat Nov 21 03:47:01 -0800 2009 | business-news
The recession continues to exact a heavy toll on financially strapped Canadians, sending 12,305 more individuals over the brink of bankruptcy in September. The number has soared 47.4 per cent from a year ago and adds to a continuing series...
October U.S. deficit hit $176.4 billion
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Fri Nov 13 04:37:13 -0800 2009 | business-news
Jobs disappeared much faster at the beginning of the latest recession than at the start of the slumps of 1981 and 1990, Statistics Canada reports. New housing prices were 2.7 per cent lower in September 2009 than they were 12...
Consumers less confident about jobs, personal finance: survey
Source: Macleans
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Thu Nov 26 12:44:25 -0800 2009 | business-news
Canadians are becoming more pessimistic over the strength of the economic recovery and what it will mean for their finances and job security, a new consumer confidence survey shows. The monthly Conference Board of Canada survey shows even as economists...
American team wins Calgary rebranding bid
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Sat Oct 17 14:53:28 -0700 2009 | business-news
Calgary Transit has rejected an advertising campaign for a new Glenbow Museum exhibit showing a sculpture of a naked newborn baby. An international company with no offices in Canada has won a bid to rebrand Calgary, and replace the city's...
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