The Bank of Canada left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday as it signalled the 2.25 per cent level is about right to balance keeping inflation in check with helping the economy grow.
Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate remained stable at 7.4 per cent in November, even as the number of unemployed people started to rise in August to levels unseen since 2021.
Prime Minister Mark Carney told a business crowd in Montreal recently that the federal government got a bit of outside help on a major piece of innovation policy in the recently passed federal budget.