Stocks to Watch: BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) Up +1.24%

At close of market on Wednesday, BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) stock finished trading at +1.24%, bringing the stock price to $61.98 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock price saw a low of $61.40 and a high of $62.04. The company’s stock was traded 7,146 times with a total of 2,319,088 shares traded. BCE Inc. has […]

More mills cut production

Western Forest Products Inc. is the latest lumber producer to announce temporary production curtailments to deal with challenging market conditions. The Vancouver-based company says it will reduce output at three of its sawmills to align volumes with customer demand. The Duke Point facility will be affected for two weeks and its Saltair sawmill for one […]

Inuit take on climate change

Climate change affects all parts of life in the North and any plan to deal with it must be just as wide-ranging, says a strategy document to be released today by Canada’s Inuit. “This is something that isn’t just a policy area for us,” said Natan Obed, head of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which wrote the […]

Quebec business owners say Groupon owes them cash as its northern presence fades

Company shuttered its Montreal sales office in March, and local businesses say it’s been hard to get in touch Some small business owners in Quebec say Groupon Inc. has left them in the lurch amid signs the company is scaling back its operations in the province. Éloïse Lafrenière, who owns the Davélo Beauty Institute in […]

Unemployment record low

Statistics Canada says the economy added 27,700 jobs in May, while the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since comparable data become available in 1976. The unemployment rate fell to 5.4 per cent compared with 5.7 per cent in April as the number of people looking for work fell sharply. Economists on average had […]

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