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July housing starts were up 12 per cent in Quebec, year over year, but analysts are expecting a slowdown for the rest of the year in the construction of new homes.
 
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday promised more stimulus spending to help prop up an economic recovery it said slowed in recent months.
 
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Thousands of travellers could be stranded unless a labour agreement is reached this week to prevent a lockout of about 500 Greyhound Canada employees that would shut down the company's bus service in Quebec and most of Ontario.
 
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Royal Bank of Canada is shopping its U.S. insurance unit Liberty Life Insurance Co., analysts said Tuesday...
 
 
 
Laval drug developer Labopharm Inc. said Tuesday a joint-venture with Europe's Gruppo Angelini has launched...
 
 
 
Boosted by acquisitions, Genivar Income Fund, a Montreal-based engineering group, posted a second-quarter...
 
 
 
Quebec's venture capital market posted strong gains for the second quarter of 2010.
 
 
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Moment Factory's  partners (left to right) Dominic Audet, Sakchin Besette and Eric  Fournier sit amid a maquette of a future Pointe a Calliere show that  they're building in their Montreal loft studio.

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A scaled-down version of the ruins located inside the Pointe-a-Calliere museum sits in one corner ...


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If hockey were a drug, Jean-Yves Tremblay says, he would have overdosed on the sport long ago. "I'm...
 
 
 
Aerospace start-ups in Canada and around the world are rife with executives who cut their teeth at ...
 
 
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"We operate in a bad system"

Stewart Elgie was a Bay St. lawyer when he began litigating over the Exxon Valdez spill. It changed ...


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Capital investments and recruiting are in the cards for Canada’s small business owners, signalling a...
 
 
 
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Jay Bryan: Implausible stats skew July employment report

Looks more like evidence of our limited ability to measure jobs than a sign of real trouble in the job market.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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