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A new poll provides fresh numbers to illustrate what many exhausted working women have been reporting for decades — work-life balance isn't exactly working out for them. The U.S. report that mirrors Canadian data suggests competing demands of work and home are part of the problem. 

After a massive cyberattack on U.S. telecom firms and dozens of countries by a hacker group backed by China, security experts are worried about communication networks and even the privacy of text messaging for individual citizens.

With Canada Post employees are on strike, some Canadians have started side hustles making deliveries to supplement income.

Canada's unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent last month as more people looked for work in a weak job market, shifting expectations toward a jumbo interest rate cut next week.

Amid an influx of packages that would normally be sent through Canada Post, Purolator and UPS have paused shipments from some courier companies in order to catch up. 

The world's most popular cryptocurrency hit another high as the election of Donald Trump for U.S. president continues to provide a massive boost for bitcoin.

An annual report on food prices in Canada is predicting more pressure on grocery costs in the coming year — but also noted that some increases in 2024 weren't as bad as previously predicted.

Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could plunge Canada into a recession. Experts say opening up inter-jurisdictional trade within the country could boost growth enough to offset that damage.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, has sold all of its shares in Israel's Bezeq, which provides telecommunications services to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

E-One Moli says it is focusing on Taiwanese production before any expansion abroad.

Canada's biggest Asian grocery chain is expanding into the U.S., hoping to bring its patented array of food, skin care and more to a new market.

A new Dollarama distribution centre and a lot more of the chain's stores are headed for Canada over the next decade.

Police are still searching for the gunman who killed the head of a major American health insurance company in New York on Wednesday in what the city's top officer described as a "brazen targeted attack."

Months after WestJet added a controversial ultrabasic ticket that didn’t allow travellers to bring a carry-on bag, Air Canada is following suit by stripping carry-on baggage from its cheapest tickets on some routes. 

The poor performance of the Detroit automaker's Chinese joint ventures is forcing the company to write down assets and take a restructuring charge totalling more than $5 billion USD in the fourth quarter of this year.

The company, which operates in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario, plans to cut five per cent of its global workforce.

A Delaware judge ruled on Monday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk still is not entitled to receive a $56 billion US compensation package despite shareholders of the electric vehicle company voting in June to reinstate it.

Rogers Communications CEO Tony Staffieri was summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee to defend contracts with clauses that allow monthly prices to increase while customers are locked in.

Negotiations between Canada Post and the union for postal workers are still on hold as of Monday afternoon, though both sides have said they're working to get back to the table.

Phil Verster is out as CEO and president of Metrolinx, the province says.