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OTTAWA — Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says the central bank will be deciding whether to exert patience at its next rate meeting or hike rates further.

A new report by Rentals.ca and Urbanation says the average asking price for a rental unit in Canada reached $2,149 last month, marking an 11.1 per cent jump from the same period a year ago. The data, which analyzes monthly listings from the Rentals.

When Abi Roach thinks about the 20 years she spent fighting for Canada to legalize cannabis, she says pot legislation is like a clenched fist.

MONTREAL — Air Canada says it's cancelling all direct flights to and from Tel Aviv through the end of the month. The suspension, which extends one in place since Oct.

Unions representing 75,000 health care workers who recently held a strike against industry giant Kaiser Permanente over wages and staffing shortages have reached a tentative agreement with the company.

CALGARY — Most of Canada's small and mid-sized publicly traded companies are not at all prepared for potentially forthcoming new requirements that could force them to disclose their climate impacts, the CEO of the company that operates the Toronto St

DETROIT (AP) — A top Ford executive says the company has reached the limit of how much money it will spend to get a contract agreement with the striking United Auto Workers union.

TORONTO — Intact Financial Corp. estimates its catastrophe losses for the second quarter were approximately $611 million on a pre-tax basis. The property and casualty insurer says in a news release that the losses amounted to $2.

MONTREAL — For Artzi Korostelev, the professional is now tragically personal.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,500.24, down 163.60 points): Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ). Energy. Up 91 cents, or 1.03 per cent, to $89.48 on 8.