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WSP Inc., Canada’s biggest engineering company by market value, is boosting its environmental consulting capability with a deal to buy geosciences specialist Golder as it pushes on with its relentless expansion.

Shopify is trying to make inroads in a market where shoppers’ habits favour major online marketplaces and small, local brick-and-mortar stores

Toronto-Dominion Bank reported fourth-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates on Thursday, on lower-than-expected provisions for credit losses and as its Canadian retail business and wholesale banking income grew from a year earlier.

International analyses suggest Canadian banks oiling the wheels of fossil fuel industry at far greater rate than peers

It has fended off the epidemic and is welcoming back firms that had decamped to China

3M Co said on Thursday it would cut about 2,900 jobs globally and scale back on investments in slower-growing markets as part of a restructuring that is expected to lead to pre-tax savings of up to $350 million.

The European Union plans to introduce in coming weeks new proposals aimed at changing behavior—and, in some cases, business models—at large online platforms, reasserting the bloc’s role as global tech cop.

A recent study from the Rainforest Action Network placed RBC, TD and Scotiabank in the global Top 10 for financing fossil fuels, providing more than $89 billion to oil and gas companies in 2019 alone. The Bank of Montreal and CIBC are in 16th and 21st spots with a total of nearly $42 billion.

Critics claim it will be dominated by China; but that is only part of the story

Lightspeed POS Inc., announced its second $400-million-plus U.S. acquisition in less than a month on Tuesday as it continues its efforts to consolidate the fragmented market for internet-based point-of-sale and payments products for retail and hospitality companies.

New Zealand promised its public sector would become carbon neutral by 2025 as it declared a climate emergency on Wednesday, a symbolic move that critics said needed to be backed with greater actions to reduce emissions.

JD.com is offering a timely reminder of why big technology firms are valuable to Beijing. The e-commerce giant’s healthcare arm has priced shares in its initial public offering at a reasonable 13 times sales. The $3.5 billion deal is set to be the biggest IPO in Hong Kong this year after an abrupt regulatory halt to the debut of Ant, the Alibaba payments affiliate, in November

Canada’s second-biggest life insurer Sun Life Financial Inc said on Wednesday Chief Executive Officer Dean Connor would retire in August next year after a decade at the helm.

Toronto-Dominion Bank’s core quarterly earnings edged higher in the fourth quarter, as provisions for loan losses eased and the bank’s wholesale division rebounded strongly from unusually weak results in the same quarter last year.

Canadian consumers are likely to end up forking out more for U.S. streaming services such as Netflix and short-term rentals on Airbnb once a new federal regime forcing tech platforms to charge sales tax comes into effect, but it isn’t clear that the new taxes will have a significant impact on consumption patterns, industry watchers say.

Deloitte Canada Chief Economist Craig Alexander speaks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about the key takeaways from the fall fiscal update.

ESG and stakeholder relationships have vaulted to the top of board agendas. Yet, current studies still show a commitment gap between institutional investors and sitting corporate directors. How can current and new board members close the gap and engage reluctant directors?

The company said the trial would involve children ages 12 through 17.

Europe seems set to end 2020 as a weak spot for the global economy, as business surveys indicate that service providers saw another decline in activity during November, while their Asian counterparts reported a continued pickup.

The plan to separate transportation and logistics operations comes after strategic review that also considered selling off parts of the company

A United Nations commission voted to remove marijuana for medical use from a list of the most risky narcotics, such as heroin.

Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday that five companies, including Uber Technologies Inc and JetBlue Airways Corp, have joined its fund that invests in companies developing environmentally friendly technologies.

Canadian business leaders are warning the country risks falling behind other industrialized nations because of what they consider the federal government’s failure to lay out a clear pandemic recovery plan, while many of the hardest-hit companies can’t absorb more debt.

The federal Liberals have defended their record-busting deficit spending during the pandemic with the rationale that the government is taking on debt so that Canadians won’t have to, a line of reasoning that again surfaced in Monday’s economic update.

Royal Bank of Canada and National Bank of Canada both announced better-than-expected earnings on Wednesday, keeping an end-of-year winning streak alive for Canada’s Big Six lenders.