TORONTO - A new report suggests nearly half of Canadian homeowners intend to buy a property in the next five years, despite a cooling off in the housing market.

Pierre Cl�roux, the chief economist of the Business Development Bank of Canada, was channelling outgoing Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney in a presentation to Winnipeg bankers Tuesday.

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.

Corrupt civil servants, shady engineering bosses, a mayor who didn't see anything and another who allegedly acted as a gangster, although - and this is a redeeming factor - he does not smoke crack.

Since the start of the year, the S&P/TSX bank index is up just 3 per cent, leaving investors who rely on these institutions for returns incredibly underwhelmed.

Former Executive VP of Suncor's Oil Sands Business Unit and VP of Suncor's Sarnia Refinery, Kirk Bailey. Misrepresentation and misconstrued information about the Alberta oil sands has taken away the pride Canada should feel in the industry.

CALGARY - A subsidiary of a Spanish renewable energy company has received the go-ahead from the Alberta Utilities Commission for its proposed 120 MW wind farm near Medicine Hat.

(Reuters) - Department store chain Sears Canada Inc (SCC.TO: Quote) posted a loss in the first quarter compared with a profit last year, and named E.J.

Emergency crews have contained crude oil leaking from a damaged rail car, according to a Canadian Pacific Railway spokesman. The derailment happened early this morning about 150 kilometres east of Saskatoon.

Canada's banking regulator Julie Dickson says that her agency is a dark place, and that gives her comfort as she prepares to enter her final year on the job.