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TORONTO — Energy and base metals stocks led Canada's main stock index higher on the first trading day of 2025, while U.S. stock markets started the year in the red.

Vancouver’s ultra-wealthy property owners prefer Point Grey, Kitsilano neighbourhoods

Independent studio among the largest games developers based in B.C.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is said to be reflecting on his future over the holidays after the resignation of his top cabinet minister, Chrystia Freeland, in mid-December.

Stable fundamentals face ‘giant orange question mark’

Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs earned $13.2 million on average in 2023 from salaries, bonuses and other compensation, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

The financial institution began as the North Shore Credit Union in 1941 with $10 in capital from local fishermen, clerks and shipyards workers.

VICTORIA — A maximum 20-per-cent home-flipping tax is among new regulations taking effect in British Columbia as of Jan. 1, with a promised middle-income tax cut arriving in the coming months as well as a spring carbon tax increase.

Canada's main stock index ticked higher on the final day of 2024, putting a bow on a year that saw impressive gains for North American markets. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 107.35 points at 24,727.

Most voters who supported the party in 2021 are now looking elsewhere, says the poll results.