Pete Evans
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Toronto, ON, Canada
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China's crackdown on Canadian canola expands as 2nd company, Viterra, has licence revoked
A second Canadian company has has its licence to sell canola to China revoked, as the country's crackdown continues on one of the most Canadian crops in the world. → Read More
China has stopped buying Canadian canola seed
Chinese importers are unwilling to purchase Canadian canola seed at the moment, according to the group that represents the industry in Canada. → Read More
Buying a home? CMHC could soon kick in 10% of the cost — for a price
The 2019 federal budget includes a tantalizing pitch for prospective first-time homebuyers — one that could see Canada's housing agency contribute up to 10 per cent of the purchase price of a home and bring down the mortgage load for borrowers. → Read More
Here's everything you need to know about today's wireless spectrum auction — and why you should care
A dozen Canadian companies will bid on Tuesday for a slice of newly released wireless spectrum. While the new spectrum has the potential to make internet-connected devices such as cellphones work better, don't expect faster and cheaper cellphones any time soon. → Read More
Trade deficits surge to record highs in U.S., Canada
The respective trade deficits of U.S. and Canada surged to their highest levels on record to close out 2018, according to figures released Wednesday. → Read More
Owner of Pyrex, CorningWare cooks up takeover of Instant Pot maker
The Canadian company that invented one of the most popular kitchen appliances in recent years is being bought by a U.S. company that has been making food storage and cooking containers for more than a century. → Read More
Canada's economy shrank by 0.1% in December
Canada's economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in December and got smaller in three of the previous four months. → Read More
Inflation rate eases to 1.4% in January as gas prices plunge
The cost of living in Canada went up at its slowest pace in more than a year in January, as gas prices plunged by 14 per cent compared to the same month a year earlier. → Read More
Canada needs to toughen short selling rules to weed out abuse, market watchers say
Canada needs to crack down on a certain type of short selling, because a growing number of bad apples are abusing the system for everyone, market watchers say. → Read More
Canadian stock exchanges' lottery awards POT ticker symbol — but to whom?
A Canadian-listed company has won the right to use the most coveted ticker symbol in the cannabis world — but the winner hasn't been announced. → Read More
Royal Bank cuts 5-year fixed mortgage rate, others likely to follow suit
Canada's biggest bank has cut its five-year fixed-term mortgage rate, a move other banks are likely to try to match in short order. → Read More
Home Capital shares sell off after Berkshire Hathaways discloses it's sold most of its stake
Shares in Canadian mortgage company Home Capital fell as much as 18 per cent on Wednesday after Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway had sold most of its stake in the company. → Read More
Canada Goose caught in Huawei crossfire as Chinese pitch Canadian product boycott
Canada Goose shares have fallen for five days in a row after the outdoor apparel maker became a target of Chinese consumers upset by the arrest of a high-ranking technology executive in Canada. → Read More
Bank of Canada holds key interest rate steady at 1.75%
The Bank of Canada has decided to keep its benchmark interest rate right where it is while it digests the impact of its previous policy decisions and the cooling economy. → Read More
Trump's 'tariff man' talk spooks investors, sends stock markets plunging
Stock markets fell precipitously on Tuesday as weekend optimism that the U.S. and China could de-escalate their trade war fell by the wayside. → Read More
Lack of romaine lettuce recall leaves grocers in a lurch
Grocery chains across Canada moved quickly to take possibly E. coli contaminated romaine lettuce off their shelves on Wednesday, but the lack of a formal recall notice for the product has made things more difficult for them by muddying the waters of who will pay for it. → Read More
Money for change: Sustainable investing hits the big time
New numbers in Canada and the United States show that sustainable investing is no longer a niche trend, but rather has become a powerful force in money management that won't be ignored. → Read More
Bank of Canada raises interest rate to 1.75%
The Bank of Canada has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point for the fifth time since last summer, pushing up the cost of borrowing for Canadians. → Read More
How Iran is using 'ghost ships' to flout Donald Trump's oil sanctions
It sounds like something out of a pirate story, but the normally staid world of international trade has been beset by a flotilla of ghost ships in recent weeks, and they're weighed down by several million barrels of trouble for U.S. foreign policy. → Read More
Shares of most pot companies sell off on 1st day of legalization
On the first day that Canadians are legally allowed to get high, stocks in Canadian marijuana companies did something perhaps unexpected: they went low. → Read More