By Alastair Sharp. TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index reversed earlier losses on Friday after several stocks jumped on takeover moves, helping the TSX shrug off uncertainty over U.S.

Responding to a public backlash over its outsourcing practices, Royal Bank of Canada has released a new code of conduct that favours hiring Canadian workers and limits what jobs it outsources to other countries.

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. filed a preliminary prospectus Friday aimed at creating one of Canada's largest commercial real estate trusts including some 75 per cent of the company's real estate assets.

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris's deal to buy Allstream, sealed after a two-year pursuit, is likely the first step in a larger plan to create a new telecommunications competitor.

EDMONTON - Kinder Morgan Canada has taken the next step in its plan to almost triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, B.C.. The corporation has filed a formal description of the proposed $5.4 billion, 1,150 ...

A trade war may be brewing between the Canadian and U.S. governments over meat packaging regulations. The Manitoba government issued a press release saying it supports the possible use of retaliatory measures by the federal government in response ...

Canada ranks third last among economically advanced countries in the amount of paid vacation time it guarantees its workers, a new U.S.

MONTREAL - When SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. chief executive Jacques Lamarre met a hot-shot engineer named Sami Bebawi for dinner in mid-1998, he was looking for someone who could help turn around the company's money-losing construction unit after ...

KKR & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Management LLC are vying with Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) to acquire Hulu LLC, escalating a bidding war that has attracted cable and satellite TV, private equity, a talent agency and media mogul Peter Chernin.

Update: Repairs to the Champlain Bridge scheduled to take place this weekend have been postponed due to the rainy weather. Repairs will take place the weekend of June 29-30.