National Business

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as employers continue to retain workers despite resurgent inflation and elevated interest rates.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as employers continue to retain workers despite resurgent inflation and elevated interest rates.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale prices came in hotter than expected last month at a time when progress against inflation appears to have stalled , undercutting expectations for lower interest rates this year.

While playing soccer in Europe, Charlie Trafford found himself disappointed during trips to the grocery store on visits home to Calgary for Christmas. "You'd eat the tomatoes or something and there's just no flavour in them, no taste," he said.

MONTREAL — Children in Canada are exposed to more than 4,000 ads for food on their mobile devices every year, with the vast majority promoting unhealthy products, according to a new report.

MONTREAL — After a choppy couple of years for Canada's largest ports, a new paper argues that automation can provide a path to higher productivity.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automakers Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi said Thursday they are dropping their talks for a business integration.

After British Columbia Premier David Eby and fellow premiers emerged from a White House meeting with advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, he wanted to make something clear — Canada would not become the 51st state.

The first trailers to house displaced locals rolled into Jasper, Alta., this week, about seven months after a third of the town was ravaged by a runaway wildfire.

MONTREAL — Quebec dairy giant Agropur is warning that the threat of a tariff war with the United States may force it to delay or rethink some of its planned investments.