While labour force survey figures suggest that Canada overall has recouped all of the jobs it lost in the last recession, a new analysis suggests that...

At the IMF-World Bank meetings this past week, there were plenty of assessments of the state of the global economy that described the post-2008 recovery as anemic. Only a few went so far as to claim that the global economy is comatose. Yet, despite general agreement on the diagnosis, there was little consensus on how to solve the problem.

Dad was once the ATM; he's less absent now, more engaged in family life. As women "lean in" to the workplace and assert themselves, as they should, men are leaning out. This wreaks uncertainty on the economy, but there is a star of brilliant light looming over the ocean, visible in the ever-rising storm.

The wrong approach to poverty reduction is to ignore the problem, letting the ideological conceit that a rising tide lifts all boats obscure the hard reality that many Canadians have no boat -- or access to anyone who has ever had a boat. The answer is automatic top-ups for those who fall beneath the poverty line.

OTTAWA - The loss of tens of thousands of youth jobs during the recession was not only painful for the young people involved but will impact them and ...

TORONTO - The looming U.S. fiscal cliff will weigh on markets again this week amid uncertainty that politicians can come together to defuse a potentia...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy may well be muddling through, but on a more personal level, Canadians generally are not, a new study of well-being suggests....

TORONTO - There is more than a 20 per cent risk of Canada falling into a second recession — and though much of that risk comes from outside our bord...

OTTAWA - Few are noting the occasion, but about now Canada and the rest of the world should be celebrating the third anniversary marking the end of th...

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper says Canadians can rest assured the government has a Plan B in place should another recession strike.But analysts warn a secon...

OTTAWA _ Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning that Europe is running out of time to fix its debt problems, but his government has prepared ``conti...

Good news: job creation in Canada is increasing. Bad news: employees who were holding on during the recession might now start looking for better offers. So how do you keep employees engaged, motivated and productive? Here are five tips on how!

From last weekend's elections in France and Germany, highlighting a shift in the populace away from fiscal austerity, to the gridlock in Greece's parliament (and more probable threat that the country will leave the euro), the region has created a conundrum for investors.

On top of the generalized global interest about Argentina's move to nationalize its largest energy company YPF, the majority owner of which had been the Spanish energy company Repsol, there is a special local twist as the Mexican President Felipe Calderón has been particularly critical of Argentina's move calling it "very regrettable."

OTTAWA - Is Canada in a recession? A majority of Canadians think so. The data and economists say otherwise.The issue arose when pollster Michael Marzo...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market cruises into the Christmas holiday period this week, a time that in most years has seen little movement in markets ...

Let 'em go. Let 'em make their own way until they change their minds and rejoin the club and adhere to existing rules. If that means another recession, or even a depression, better now than at some time in the future when damage will be even greater.