National Business

MONTREAL — Quebec wants to cut its share of international students to ease housing pressure and protect the French language, but a recent uptick in study permits has mostly gone to people from francophone countries where the province has explicitly s

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 2.8% annual rate from July through September, with consumers helping drive growth despite the weight of still-high interest rates.

OTTAWA — Canada Post has presented its latest contract offer to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in a bid to reach a new deal without a labour disruption. The new proposal includes annual wage increases amounting to 11.5 per cent over four years.

TORONTO — In a nook of the gleaming new Arc'teryx store on Toronto's Bloor Street West, Jesse Chan and Yamel Zacarias rifled through a rack of jackets most would consider misfits one October afternoon.

TORONTO — Artificial intelligence will be able to beat humans at cyber offence by the end of the decade, predicted the keynote speaker at a series of lectures hosted by computer science luminary Geoffrey Hinton this week.

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta has applied for a judicial review of Ottawa's exemption of the carbon levy on home heating oil.

CALGARY — Precision Drilling Corp. says it earned $39 million in the third quarter of 2024, nearly double what it earned in the same time period last year. Canada's largest oil-and-gas drilling rig company says the profit works out to $2.

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a potential budget deficit next year is not off the table as oil prices sit below what was projected.

According to the commission, which manages trade disputes on behalf of the 27 EU member countries, sales of Chinese-built electric cars jumped from 3.9% of the EV market in 2020 to 25% by September 2023, in part by unfairly undercutting EU industry prices.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index ticked lower Tuesday, weighed down by losses in telecom, utilities and energy, while the Nasdaq hit a new record thanks to gains in technology stocks. However, U.S.