bernake Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee in Washington in this May 22, 2013 file photo.

Stephen Poloz is preaching patience. Which is a good thing, because his first speech to the Canadian public as Bank of Canada boss has left us still waiting to hear most of the things we need to know.

Verizon Communications Inc. is looking at a move into Canada's cellular telephone business, one of several possible new entrants whose arrival would salvage the federal government's ambitions for a fourth wireless player across the country.

Canada's largest grocer is trying out a new discount small-store format in a bid to attract more customers in urban areas. Loblaw said it opened the new 10,000-square foot store a few weeks ago in Calgary.

Canada's growth outlook appears to be stronger than previously thought, thanks to an improving trade picture and the strength of corporate balance sheets, economists at the Royal Bank of Canada said Wednesday.

HALIFAX -- The Imperial Oil refinery in Halifax is being closed and converted to a terminal, in a move that deals the latest blow to Nova Scotia's manufacturing sector.

TORONTO - The Bank of Canada is likely to start raising its benchmark interest rate in July 2014, a full year before the U.S. Federal Reserve, BMO's chief economist Douglas Porter said Wednesday.

tim-hortons A row of Tim Hortons coffee cups are lined up for customers at Penn Station in New York in this July 13, 2009 file photo.

PARIS - A�roports de Montr�al said Wednesday at the Paris air show that it will build an 80,000-square-foot facility in Mirabel in the next six months for $9.5 million and will lease it to French-based firm Aerolia Canada Inc. for up to 30 years.

Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA said Wednesday it made a big discovery of light oil offshore Newfoundland, the latest find in Canada's Atlantic region--a big and fast-growing petroleum play that's often overshadowed by the country's western oil-sands ...