The next few months promise to be turbulent ones for financial markets, as investors adjust to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's insistence that they judge the course of monetary policy for themselves.

Almost a year after the federal government's latest tightening of the rules for insured mortgages, the association that represents mortgage brokers has come out with a dire assessment of the effect of those changes.

By John Tilak. TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index climbed on Wednesday, led by gold miners, after a day of choppy trading as optimism that the U.S.

Most Montrealers are being told they must boil their water before drinking it, a precaution after sediment was found in the water following renovations to a city reservoir.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the eighth time congressional Republicans have advanced a measure promoting the project.

A council committee has accepted a plan to base inner-city parking rates on how popular parking is on any given street. The two-hour parking rates would also vary depending on the time of day.

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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has been hit with a downgrade from Standard & Poor's Corp., which warned of the risk of weaker profits in the wake of the engineering firm's corruption scandals.

If you said (a) when it's not really zero growth at all and (b) when it's accompanied by a drop in fuel prices, then you're finding all the right answers in Canada's March retail sales report.

(Reuters) - Department store chain Sears Canada Inc (SCC.TO: Quote) posted a loss in the first quarter compared with a profit last year, as demand for its home products and major appliances fell.