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The U.S. president says there is "nothing" Canada can do to delay tariffs that are expected to begin on Saturday. "No, nothing. Not right now, no," Donald Trump said in response to a question during a...

Ottawa is delaying its controversial capital gains tax changes until Jan. 1, 2026. The federal government made the announcement in a news release on Friday morning. All capital gains are currently tax...

Even if Donald Trump puts tariffs on several Canadian exports, the country should not go into an economic recession. That's according to economist Pierre Clroux, who spoke at a panel by the Halifax Ch...

Our country's economy saw its largest contraction in nearly a year in November, according to Statistics Canada. Real gross domestic product fell by 0.2 per cent after a 0.3 per cent increase recorded ...

Mark Carney is promising to get rid of the federal carbon tax. The candidate for the federal Liberal party leader, and former governor of the Bank of Canada, spoke at Pier 21 in Halifax Friday morning...

Nova Scotia Liberal MP Jaime Battiste is dropping out of the federal Liberal leadership race. The member for Sydney-Victoria says in a statement he will endorse former Bank of Canada governor, Mark Ca...

More than two dozen bodies have been recovered and officials say no survivors are expected after a midair collision just outside of the U.S. capitol. An American Airlines plane with 64 people collided...

Canada's nurses' union is about to send a very strong message to the government as many struggle to find a family physician. President Linda Silas, of the Canadian Federation of Nurses' Unions tells o...

As the tariff threat looms, the Bank of Canada lowered its interest rate again. The 25 basis point reduction is the sixth straight decrease, and brings it to three percent. Governor Tiff Macklem says ...

Donald Trump's tariffs could happen as early as Saturday. The U.S. president previously said he would put a 25 per cent tax on Canadian and Mexican exports, if the two countries do not tighten up bord...