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.

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.

Kinder Morgan Canada expects to need roughly 150 kilometres of new route for the expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline, whose current path travels directly through dense urban areas in Edmonton and the B.C.

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 ...

Warburg Pincus LLC would reap more than a threefold return on its $1.7 billion equity investment in Bausch & Lomb Inc. if talks to sell the eye-care company for $9 billion bear fruit, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

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.

OLD MASSETT, B.C. - The California businessman behind a controversial ocean fertilization project off B.C.'s west coast has been fired, but the group behind the project says it still supports the concept.