4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (492+ words) Winnipeg 28° C, Sunny The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 90.8 in July from 92.2 in June. That’s essentially the same tepid range its been in since the beginning of the year. In late 2024 and early 2025 the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (905+ words) Winnipeg 19° C, Sunny For Canadians juggling multiple maxed-out credit cards, the instinct in a moment of panic is usually to try to fix everything at once. Yet financial experts say that instinct is not one to follow, and it’s often…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1592+ words) Winnipeg 29° C, Sunny What’s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale. Jack, 50, scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries. When she reaches the store, she looks in the weekly…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1377+ words) Winnipeg 16° C, Clear Economics has a term for what U.S. grocery prices have done in recent years: rockets and feathers. Rockets, because the cost of food eaten at home zoomed up in the aftermath of the pandemic. Feathers, because…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1083+ words) Winnipeg 26° C, Light rain with wind On Friday, he rolled out new double-digit tariffs on imports from 60 U.S. trading partners, ostensibly for failing to do enough to prevent imports produced by forced labor. But the breadth of the levies…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (328+ words) Winnipeg 19° C, Windy The central bank for the 21 countries that use the euro currency left its benchmark rate unchanged at 2.25% following a quarter-point hike at its previous meeting June 11. That increase was aimed at dampening the impact on consumer prices…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (168+ words) VANCOUVER – Lundin Mining Corp. says it has suspended operations at its Caserones mine complex due to heavy snowfall which has disrupted power at the site in Chile’s Atacama region. The company says it suspended operations at the large open pit…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (150+ words) OTTAWA – Statistics Canada is set to publish new inflation data for June this morning. A Reuters poll of economists expects inflation fell to 2.9 per cent last month from a recent high of 3.2 per cent in May. Motorists were paying less…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (625+ words) Winnipeg 24° C, Cloudy with wind OTTAWA – Falling gas prices in June are expected to pull the annual inflation rate back below three per cent when Statistics Canada reports fresh price data on Monday. A Reuters poll of economists expects inflation…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (294+ words) The tariffs, which were first proposed last month, will take effect July 22. The order exempts some goods that are not produced in the U.S. or that officials worry would disrupt supply chains. Exempted products include coffee, beef, oranges and orange juice,…...