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TORONTO — Roughly 200,000 small businesses took on new debt to access the forgivable portion of their pandemic relief loans from the federal government, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said Tuesday.

Updates to the provincial nominee program, which facilitates permanent residency, have unsettled students who say they built lives around the current policy and made considerable sacrifices.

Miners seek compensation for wrongful expropriation of mineral claims

Like many parts of Canada, B.C. needs to modernize its regulatory environment to better support food production and processing

Suburban retail vacancy is low, despite expansions at sites such as Amazing Brentwood, Richmond Centre.

HALIFAX — A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation may be more of a threat than in the past few decades.

The rental platform says new short-term rental restrictions could have negative implications on tax revenue.

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Ottawa's corporate-ethics watchdog says a Vancouver-based mining company has allowed forced labour at its gold mine in the Xinjiang region of China, even though the firm lost control of the project before the alleged slavery took place.

The province kicked in $17 million for the project, along with funding from the federal government.