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.

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.

Couche-Tard chief executive Alain Bouchard has not hesitated to make acquisitions to boost shareholder returns, but he has always maintained a certain caution in how much he will pay and how much he is willing to lever the balance sheet.