MONTREAL -- Almost a third of Canadian households report never or almost never having any money left to save after paying their bills, according to a new study issued Wednesday.

The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals is warning that new-home construction will drop dramatically within the next two years, resulting in a loss of about 80,000 construction and related jobs by mid-2015.

CALGARY - Fewer Calgary homeowners intend to buy a property in the next five years, according to the BMO Housing Confidence Report released on Wednesday.

Zoocasa, an online service for home seekers, is aiming to win market share with rebates to buyers and sellers that will refund roughly 15 per cent of the commission they pay their real estate agents.

Retail sales stayed flat at $39.5 billion in March, as sales increased in volume terms despite lower prices for gasoline. Statistics Canada said in volume terms, retail sales were up 0.7 per cent.

Wed May 22, 2013 8:36am EDT. * First-quarter loss C$0.31/shr vs profit C$0.91/share last yr. * Revenue falls 6.6 pct, same-store sales dip 2.6 pct.

Wed May 22, 2013 9:40am EDT. * Saks rallies on report it could sell itself. * Bernanke seen hitting dovish note in testimony. * Dow, S&P, Nasdaq up 0.1 pct.

The Canadian Boreal Forest agreement, CBFA, took yet another bizarre turn on Tuesday when one of its largest corporate signatories, Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products, withdrew, citing �unbalanced� demands from environmental NGOs.

An apple orchard in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley has been quarantined after a critical plant pest was discovered for the first time in North America.

The Federal Court of Canada has dismissed a challenge by two unions over a Vancouver-based company's hiring of 201 temporary foreign workers from China for a coal project in northern British Columbia.