National Business

OTTAWA — A pair of reports from the Bank of Canada pointed to declining business and consumer sentiment in the first quarter and increased worries about a recession even before the latest round of tariffs announced by U.S.

CALGARY — Parkland Corp. and its biggest shareholder have each proposed competing board slates as their dispute heats up ahead of the fuel refiner and retailer's annual general meeting next month. Simpson Oil Ltd.

TORONTO — Ontario businesses will see select provincial taxes deferred for six months, which Premier Doug Ford says will give them about $9 billion worth of relief amid global economic turmoil in the face of U.S. tariffs. As Canadian and U.S.

As four space tourists orbited the north and south poles earlier this month and marvelled at the views of Earth, a group of Canadians celebrated an X-ray image taken aboard the spacecraft using technology developed at the University of Waterloo.

BANGKOK (AP) — China on Monday accused the U.S. of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying with tariffs, while calling on representatives of American companies including Tesla, to “take concrete actions” to resolve the tariffs.

About 55,000 Ontarians are without power Monday as Hydro One's 4,800 crew members make efforts to get the lights back on after last week's ice storm.

For more than a century, Oshawa, Ont., has been the city of autoworkers.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Election campaign and trade The federal election heads into its third week with the party leaders trying to pitch themselves as the best person to stand up to Donal

TORONTO — Hudson's Bay insiders, including its head honcho Richard Baker, have until the end of Monday to declare whether they're interested in making a bid for any of the ailing company's assets or leases.

Rain and localized flooding complicated the weeklong effort to restore power to thousands of Ontario homes and businesses, officials said Saturday, as a series of punishing spring storms threatened to keep hard-hit communities in the dark into next w