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Canadian Tire acquired HBC's intellectual property, including the striped blanket design, earlier this year for $30 million as part of the wind down of the retailer.

Canadian housing starts rose 14 per cent in September compared with the previous month, a sharper increase than expected, data from the national housing agency showed on Thursday.

The drop in sales came despite an interest rate cut in September. But an economist says the figures aren't worrying when compared to recent years.

Several ads on Amazon for tank tops that use the term "wife beater," a phrase deemed offensive by Canada's advertising watchdog, have been pulled from the retail giant's Canadian website following a CBC News investigation. Amazon told CBC it has no . ...

The federal government is threatening automaker Stellantis with legal action if the company doesn't "respect its obligations" to Canadians, according to a letter obtained by CBC News, years after the company agreed to an auto pact promising billions ...

Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico's 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald was on hand for a ribbon cutting in ...

Canadian economist Peter Howitt is among a group of three researchers who won the Nobel memorial prize in economics this week. Their research and modelling looked at the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older . ...

CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI had made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive" to make sure it was being careful with mental health issues, though that made the chatbot "less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems."

Stellantis announced Tuesday it will invest $13 billion US over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the U.S. -- a move that will take production of one model out of Ontario and raises concerns about Canadian jobs.

Stellantis says it will invest $13 billion over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the United States, a move that the automaker says will increase its U.S. vehicle production by 50 per cent and add more than 5,000 jobs.