TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index opened lower on Friday, led by weaker financial and energy shares, as fears of an early end to the U.S.

Proposed changes to U.S. meat labelling laws are unsatisfactory and continue to discriminate against Canadian beef and hog producers, Ottawa says, raising the spectre of retaliatory action from the federal government.

TORONTO�National Bank of Canada, the sixth-largest bank in Canada, raised its quarterly dividend Friday after reporting a 22% decline in second-quarter earnings reflecting last year's sale of its asset management unit.

TransCanada Corp. (TRP) won another of the remaining Texas state-court challenges by landowners trying to block construction of the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline across their property.

Even today, walking onto the Toronto Carpet Factory lot, it is as if you step back in time. One full city block in size, the Toronto Carpet Factory in Liberty Village is a turn-of-the-century complex featuring several buildings clustered around internal courtyards and ...