Business

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says immigration is a significant reason why Canada’s technology sector has been thriving. The prime minister was the first keynote speaker at a technology conference in Toronto. This is the first time the event, called Collision, is being held in Canada and organizers are calling it North ...

If there is a single reason why Canada’s real estate industry has been complaining so loudly about the country’s mortgage “stress test,” new research from economists at TD Bank points straight to it. The test for uninsured mortgages, introduced in January of 2018, “sidelined” 40,000 potential home purchases in its ...

Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Quadriga is due in court Tuesday as it seeks creditor protection in the wake of the sudden death of its founder and chief executive in December and missing cryptocurrency worth roughly $190-million. The Vancouver-based exchange filed an application for creditor protection on Jan. 31 and the Nova ...

Warren Buffett has for years championed a strategy of buying shares of companies that are made to last, a strategy he put to work in some of his most famous investments, such as See’s Candies and Coca Cola. Traditionally, Canadian investors have been told to do the same when deciding which stocks to put in ...

Nearly half of all non-retired Canadians don’t have a plan to build retirement savings, and nearly 2 in 5 (39 per cent) don’t believe they’ll ever have enough to stop working, according to a new poll. The poll conducted by Ipsos for Royal Bank of Canada showed 45 per cent ...