Economy, Law & Politics

Canada's main stock index fell more than one per cent Tuesday as it played catch-up while U.S. stock markets regained some of the ground lost in a big plunge Monday when the Toronto market was closed.

OTTAWA — Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault says the federal government is considering new regulations that could make fewer employers eligible to hire temporary foreign workers.

The Canadian men's basketball team will face host France — with NBA rookie-of-the-year Victor Wembanyama and NBA veterans Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, Nicolas Batum and Bilal Coulibaly — in Tuesday's quarter-final game.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country posted a merchandise trade surplus of $638 million in June as exports of crude oil and gold rose sharply. The agency says the result compared with a revised trade deficit of $1.6 billion in May.

The country’s youngest adults are more likely to have paid for missing a restaurant booking or dentist appointment

HINTON, Alta. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Hinton, Alta., to get a briefing on the status of the Jasper wildfire, as well as meet with the province's premier and evacuees who fled the blaze that destroyed a third of the town.

The province recently committed $250 million to 21 northern B.C. communities

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Sky Global distributor Herdman was previously denied bail and lost his appeal, and remains in a French prison