Telus says it has a $380-million deal to buy Mobilicity after it was approached by the indebted small telecom player looking for relief from its financial struggles.

But it remains unclear whether the government, which has sought to foster more competition in the wireless sector, will allow the sale...

Netflix Canada’s booming subscription rates are driving Canada’s cable providers into the online video market in an attempt to remain relevant to viewers who are increasingly cutting their cords, the company’s CEO told a Toronto digital media conference Tuesday.

Reed Hastings believes cable companies such as Rogers Communications...

Young Canadians have little to cheer about in the latest jobs report, which showed youth unemployment rising to its highest level in six months even as the overall labour market bounced back slightly from the previous month's slide.

Statistics Canada’s April Labour Force Survey revealed employment among youth...

Job cuts, outsourcing, and a paywall push in the face of plunging advertising sales at Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper epitomize the latest tactics employed by publishers in the battle to survive a predicted industry shakeout that could see some papers shutter and others thrive.

Following a particularly tumultuous decade for newspapers,...

“Pre-retirement” Canadians aged 50 to 59 are taking on an alarming amount of debt and are most at risk of bankruptcy, according to a new study that examined some 7,000 insolvency filings.

Bankruptcy trustees Hoyes, Michalos & Associates reviewed filings from 2011 and 2012 and found the average...

An innovative health clinic for new immigrants sees few patients trickle through its doors. Community health advisers scratch their heads. A state-of-the-art new Roman Catholic school is built in the wrong neighbourhood and shutters its doors. The local school board faces ratepayer anger over the misspent money.

These are some...

Joe Fresh’s owner, Loblaw Co., held an emergency meeting with the Retail Council of Canada Monday to discuss how the company will address a deadly collapse at a Bangladesh factory that made clothes for the Canadian chain of cheap chic fashions.

“We are committed to finding an approach that...

As the world continues to warm at an alarming pace, concerned citizens are growing increasingly frustrated at the lack of political will for action on climate change.

But some Canadian startups aren't waiting for the government to come around, and are pursuing innovations that could -- with luck and...

Angie Li is about to graduate from university and has already landed a job in her field. It’s a feat she feels is thanks to experience gained at three overlapping unpaid internships that she also balanced with her regular academic workload.

Li, a 21-year-old marketing student at Ottawa's Carleton University,...

A group of university students has called on Ontario’s Minister of Labour to end unpaid internships, just as two prominent Canadian employers become the latest focal points for growing controversy over the practice that critics say illegally exploits young people.

The University of Toronto Students’ Union (UTSU) contends that more...

Rob Watson’s first Boston Marathon will be forever etched in his memory, but the elation he felt as the top Canadian racer was soon overcome by frustration and grief at bombings that rocked the finish line of the storied race.

Watson, who finished in 11th place with a time of...

The public’s visceral response to RBC’s foreign worker scandal is about more than the sullied reputation of Canada’s largest bank. It could well be a cautionary tale for Corporate Canada on the volatile mood of Canadians grown weary of post-recession cost-cutting and job losses at companies that are still turning...

Canada's nascent public debate over union privileges and "right-to-work" laws has found an unlikely testing ground in Saskatchewan, which is about to pass sweeping legislation that could influence the dynamic of labour relations across the country.

The Saskatchewan Employment Act, also known as Bill 85, appears to contain only the...

Amid a flood of controversy over two proposed pipelines that would ship crude from Alberta’s oilsands to markets overseas, progress is picking up on plans to construct a third pipeline that would bring oil across the country to the East Coast.

The TransCanada Corp. project, the Energy East Pipeline, would...

Nearly half of Canadians plan to crunch their own numbers this tax season, according to a new survey that suggests the do-it-yourself approach to tax filing is growing in popularity.

BMO Nesbitt Burns’ latest tax study, released Wednesday, found that 46 per cent of respondents said they will prepare their...

The passage of right-to-work legislation in this country would pose “the biggest blow” yet to Canadian unions after a years-long erosion of labour laws and would result in rising income inequality, a prominent labour rights group argues in a new paper.

The research report called “Unions Matter,” released Wednesday...

Major U.S. wireless carriers may be eyeing a purchase of Wind Mobile, spurred to action by recent changes to foreign ownership rules that for the first time allow them to own and operate in Canada, according to a source familiar with the small Canadian player.

Speculation about who might buy...

Stay the course, snoozer, unsurprising: Canadians hoping for more support or even excitement in Thursday’s federal budget found many words to describe the government’s 2013 fiscal plan. What they didn’t find were convincing details behind its hallmark initiatives.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has been vocal about his government’s priority to...

Wind Mobile, the most prominent and controversial new wireless carrier in Canada, is on the auction block, and any sale of the small player would likely reduce competition in Canada’s telecom market as the most likely bidders are the big three behemoths.

A report by Dvai Ghose, head of...

As an economic slowdown bites into government revenue, the anti-tax hike Conservatives will resort to slashing more programs in Thursday’s budget to balance the books by 2015.

But why are the Tories so bent on that goal at any cost?

There is no pressing economic need for a balanced budget...