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OTTAWA — Retail sales dropped 0.4 per cent to $69.3 billion in February as sales fell at new car dealers, Statistics Canada said Friday. However, the agency said its early estimate for March suggested an increase of 0.

TORONTO — Hudson's Bay can now prepare to auction off 4,400 artifacts and art pieces along with the 355-year-old royal charter that launched the now-ailing company.

OTTAWA — A forecast from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business estimates the economy saw muted growth in the first three months of the year and predicts a significant contraction for the second quarter.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ trust in President Donald Trump to bolster the U.S.

TORONTO — Medical researchers and lawyers say our rocky relationship with the U.S. creates an urgent need to protect a critical Canadian resource: patient health information that can be used to train artificial intelligence.

MONTREAL — The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered Air Canada to pay passengers more than $10 million in damages in a class-action lawsuit that alleged they charged more than the ticket price advertised.

TORONTO — A Toronto lawyer is hoping to find a way to preserve war memorials at two Hudson's Bay stores. E.

LONDON (AP) — European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules .

MONTREAL — National Bank of Canada has signed a deal to buy PGM Global Holdings Inc., the parent company of PGM Global Inc. which is a Montreal-based provider of institutional trading services.

It was a long seven years for the Ottawa Senators and their fans, having to sit on the sidelines each spring since 2017 when the club last made the playoffs.