TORONTO -- The Toronto Stock Exchange dipped slightly Friday, pulled down by declines in most sectors, particularly gold, but balanced by a 13 per cent boost in shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

TORONTO - The Royal Bank, which faced fierce backlash earlier this year over an outsourcing arrangement with a supplier that used temporary foreign workers, said Friday it won't send work offshore just to save on salaries.

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has agreed to sell its Allstream business telecommunications arm to an Egyptian investment group and use about half of the $405 million in proceeds to reduce its pension obligations and debt.

The federal government is threatening "retaliatory measures" against the United States in a dispute over meat-labelling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.

TORONTO�National Bank of Canada, the sixth-largest bank in Canada, raised its quarterly dividend Friday after reporting a 22% decline in second-quarter earnings reflecting last year's sale of its asset management unit.

The world's first carbon capture and storage facility is set to start testing in Saskatchewan and it's already creating international buzz.

A new study puts Canada near the bottom of the list of developed countries when it comes to laws governing vacation and holiday time.

Loblaw Cos. (L), Canada's largest grocery chain by market value, filed documents for an initial public offering of Choice Real Estate Investment Trust in a bid to unlock shareholder value.

Clement Gignac was so bullish on the Canadian dollar in 2006 that he went out on a limb that April and forecast it would reach parity with the U.S.

Kinder Morgan Canada has again declined to make public the intended path for its Trans Mountain expansion project, as pipeline companies face the wrath of landowners angered by routes that look good on a map but less so in a backyard.