Economy

The artificial-intelligence boom is straining environmental and infrastructural limits

Canada must make smart investments in these stupid times

Great high-speed rail, Ottawa. Let’s make sure we can actually build it

Wonks often predict that economic upstarts will outstrip the U.S. – but it hasn’t happened yet

Canada’s free-trade agreement with the U.S. has no free trade, nor is it an agreement

The war against DEI will cost us all

Saga of New Brunswick bridge highlights cost of interprovincial trade barriers

Decision to pause a $2-billion investment in canola rattles Saskatchewan growers

Canada’s next PM faces big economic risks that could worsen deficit

Beware the big bucks from venture capital. They aren’t for every startup

Higher energy prices offset GST break as Canada’s annual inflation rate rises to 1.9%

Canadian home sales dented by tariff worries in January as listings surge, CREA says

Canada’s annual inflation rate in January rises slightly to 1.9%, core measures also up

BDC commits $950-million in growth capital to offset economic uncertainty for young companies

How Canada must face its winter of reckoning

Meet the flavour engineers working to make plant-based food taste more like meat

To address Canada’s talent shortage, hire more neurodivergent workers

Trump was right to kill the penny. Now, onto the nickel

Is it really a good idea to designate Mexican cartels as terrorists?

Just what can stop the all-powerful Donald Trump? The stock market, our last hope

Do trade deficits matter? How economists think about Trump’s obsession

Canadian manufacturing sales up for third straight month in December

Toronto housing market nervous after tariff threats, the Home of the Week and more top real estate stories

Why does Elon Musk want to buy OpenAI from his arch-nemesis? Take our business and investing news quiz

How Trump is waging war through tariffs

Finance Department confirms legislation needed to make carbon rebate tax-free for small businesses

Let’s make the GST holiday permanent

Canadians cut back on trips to the U.S. in January amid boycott calls

Cirque du Soleil cuts 110 jobs globally as company refines growth strategy

Trump ramps up global trade war with plan for reciprocal tariffs, including on Canada

Let’s not get too excited about pipelines. Canadians can’t afford another

If we’re willing to cut U.S. goods, why aren’t we willing to cut carbon emissions?

The U.S. actually has a huge trade surplus in services – that’s where Canada should hit

Trump’s 2018 steel tariffs brought higher prices, did little to boost jobs

Canadian dollar steadies near 8-week high as tariff risk lingers

Potential trade war with U.S. weighed on Bank of Canada when it cut rates in January, minutes show