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A small claims court has ordered Air Canada to pay a couple $10,000, after an overbooked flight resulted in the two being sent to multiple Canadian airports under the promise of a replacement flight that never materialized, ruining a vacation that had been planned for years. 

Vancouver councillors passed a motion from Mayor Ken Sim on Wednesday that seeks to make the city "bitcoin-friendly," giving staff the thumbs up to explore holding cryptocurrency in reserve and accepting payments in the virtual currency.

The U.S. Department of Justice says a former TD Bank Group employee has been arrested and charged for allegedly facilitating money laundering at the bank.

Massachusetts-based AquaBounty has announced it is shutting down its genetically engineered salmon hatchery in Bay Fortune, P.E.I., with 'several senior management members' leaving the company in the face of a cash crisis.

Several batches of the popular granola bar brand MadeGood have been recalled by its parent company over concerns that the bars may contain metal fragments.

The Bank of Canada lowered its interest rate by 50-basis points to 3.25 per cent on Wednesday but signalled a slower pace of rate cuts moving forward.

TikTok is challenging the federal government's order to shut down its operations in Canada, claiming it will eliminate hundreds of jobs and could terminate a quarter of a million contracts it has with Canadian advertising clients.

The company reached the settlement agreement in October, but a Quebec Superior Court judge signed off on it Tuesday. 

The average asking price for rents hit a 15-month low in November, falling nationally on a year-over-year basis to $2,139, according to a new report.

CBC's Janyce McGregor explains what is expected in next week's fall economic statement and examines the latest remarks from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who declined to comment Tuesday on the expected size of the budget deficit.

A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges more than a dozen landlords and property managers have conspired to artificially inflate rents across Canada. The suit claims they did it by using a piece of software called YieldStar.

Michael Jarman, a Toronto financial modelling director, has become the undisputed world champion of managing spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. 

As the Canada Post strike involving more than 55,000 workers hit the 25-day mark, the union representing postal workers says it met with the Crown corporation and shared revisions to its latest proposal.

Canadian National Railway has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing its mechanical workers and clerks, the company announced on Monday, just two weeks after workers voted to authorize a strike.

Investors took geopolitical tumult in their stride on Monday, leaving oil and gold modestly higher while the U.S. dollar edged up ahead of inflation data this week that could cement a December rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table her much-anticipated fall economic update next week — a document that will give Canadians a look at the federal books at a time of great economic uncertainty.

Mayor Ken Sim wants Vancouver to become a bitcoin-friendly city, and that could include accepting payments for city services in cryptocurrency.

With the Canada Post strike now in its fourth week, some Canadians say they're frustrated with major courier companies like FedEx, UPS and Purolator that they've turned to as alternatives.

Calgary's unemployment rate is trending higher than the national average — but it's not about layoffs.

Last month, CBC News reported on a Quebec man who blamed the lane-centring technology in his car for causing an accident. Following the story, CBC received more than two dozen emails reporting similar concerns, including one about repeated braking issues out of Ontario.