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Grocery store shelves are full of maple leaf stickers and shelf talkers indicating products are, in some way, Canadian. But they don't always tell the whole story.

Even though Canada and the United States are in the midst of a trade war, officials from north of the border are looking past it, in hopes of getting a piece of the energy pie.

Data released by Statistics Canada on Monday shows that the number of return trips among Canadians travelling by car to the U.S. declined significantly in February, down 23 per cent compared with a year earlier.

Hours after a series of outages Monday left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a "massive cyberattack."

The gift card industry is estimated to be worth more than $11 billion dollars in Canada, and it’s growing. But critics say there’s little oversight when things go wrong, setting up consumers to become the victims of possible international fraud.

In a world where online job applications appear to be the norm, it still takes in-person networking to reveal a significant portion of the opportunities in the "hidden job market."

Canada's oldest retailer, which operates the Hudson's Bay department stores, announced it is seeking creditor protection on Friday, but that it intends to hold onto many of its prominent locations. Retail strategist David Ian Gray said scaling down and exploring their own product lines could be options for the ailing department store chain.

Millions of dollars — and thousands of jobs — are in flux as seemingly daily changes to tariffs mean Canada-based businesses feel they can't make any financial decisions.

Canada's oldest retailer, Hudson's Bay Co., has filed for creditor protection and intends to restructure the business.

The federal government is launching a more than $6-billion aid package for businesses impacted by President Donald Trump's tariffs and relaxing some employment insurance rules to help workers.

Canada's unemployment rate was unchanged in February, holding steady at 6.6 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday, as population growth loses steam and tariff uncertainty shakes the labour market.

Several Sunwing passengers say the airline needs to be held accountable after many flight cancellations and delays last month, including cases where it abruptly cancelled vacations with no rebooking offers or delayed return flights for days.

A Marketplace investigation has pulled back the curtain on how some mobile games, which seem to attract children, use loopholes in rules protecting kids’ data — allowing marketers to build advertising profiles tailored to them, which can then be more effective at influencing their behaviour.