Wind Mobile's foreign owner may be pulling out of a deal to gain full control of the company but the prospects for consolidation of Canada's small wireless providers remain more or less the same - that is to say, up in the air.

The new Governor of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz, makes his first public appearance at an Oakville Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. unemployment benefit applications rose by 18,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 354,000. Despite the gain, the level remains consistent with moderate job gains.

TORONTO - An anticipated financial recovery south of the border is likely to help economic growth in Canada, economists said Wednesday, although the U.S.

Imperial Oil Ltd. will close its 95-year-old Dartmouth, N.S., oil refinery and eliminate most of the 400 high-paying jobs it provides in the Halifax area - victims of too much refining capacity in the Atlantic basin and the high cost of imported crude.