Canada Financial News

After years of delays and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns, a Montreal rail system planned, built and largely financed by Canada’s second-largest pension manager is finally rolling.

Canada’s foreign homebuyer ban is discouraging non-Canadian athletes and executives from investing in the country, which is one reason for the current sluggish pace of luxury home sales in Toronto, according to Engel & Völkers Canada.

Australia surged into the Women's World Cup last 16 on Monday with Hayley Raso scoring twice in a 4-0 battering of Canada as Nigeria joined them in the knockout phase. Olympic champions Canada were dumped out at the hands of a fired-up Australian team who knew they had to win in Melbourne to progress. They did it in style, their big victory putting them through as Group B winners, meaning they will probably avoid European champions England in the next round.

FIFA Women’s World Cup after losing 4-0 to Australia in their last group match.Co-host Australia finished at the top of group B followed by Nigeria – both sides advancing to the round of 16 on Monday.It was a disappointing end for seventh-ranked Canada, who drew their first match against Nigeria and won 2-1 against debutant Ireland.Overall, they finished third in their group.It was an uphill battle for the Olympic champions against the 10th-ranked Australian side, as they went down a goal early in the first half.Hayley Raso scored twice for Australia at the 9th and 39th minute mark.

The Matildas have hauled themselves off the canvas to thump Canada 4-0 and reach the Women’s World Cup round of 16.

Canada has pleaded guilty to smuggling several Indian nationals from Canada into the US for profit. Simranjit 'Shally' Singh admitted to six counts of alien smuggling and three counts of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling during an appearance in Albany, New York on Friday. At the request of the US government, Singh was taken into custody on June 28, 2022, in Ontario, Canada. He was extradited from Canada to the US on March 30 this year, the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of New York stated in a release. From March of 2020 through March of 2021, Singh admitted to facilitating the smuggling of several Indian nationals from Canada into the US, via Cornwall Island and the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation in the St Lawrence River region.

Pugh will report into James Stoddart, head of distribution at CLAM.

The US Department of State issued over 411,000 student visas during the 2022 fiscal year (October 2021 to September 2022), up 15% from 2021. Not only was this a 15% increase from the previous fiscal year, the largest non-pandemic year-over-year increase since 2010, but it was also the highest recorded total seen in six years, data from the State Department shows. Compared to the US, Canada issued over 420,000 student visas in 2022, a 27% increase over 2021. In the UK, annual growth was 34% in the year ending March 2023. «The US international education sector is on its way to a full recovery. The combination of a six-year high in F-1 visas issued, the largest annual increase in a decade (outside of the pandemic), and the emergence of several high-potential source markets build the foundation for an optimistic outlook,» according to ApplyBoard's latest report.

B.C. port and dock workers could soon have a deal with their employer after a joint statement Sunday night.

The Matildas have their backs to the wall and their Women’s World Cup on the line. But defender Ellie Carpenter reckons that’s just how they like it.

By Nicholas P. Brown

MLC) has made a resounding debut on the international cricketing stage, with most matches seeing record turnout even though the US is not a traditional cricket-playing country. The grand finale — to be played at 6 am Indian Standard Time on Monday — pits Seattle Orcas, co-owned by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, against Mukesh Ambani's MI New York at the Grand Prairie Stadium near Dallas.

KKR, has acquired four road assets from Macquarie India in a deal worth ₹3,000 crore. Earlier, Adani Road Transport had agreed to acquire these road assets for ₹3,100 crore, but terminated the deal last month citing «unsatisfactory conditions». Highways Infrastructure Trust (HIT) will acquire Gujarat Road & Infrastructure (GRICL) and Swarna Tollway (STPL), the InvIT said in a filing with stock exchanges.

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) fetched five gold and one silver medal for India on the opening day of the World Police and Fire Games in Winnipeg, Canada. Luwangthem Gunao and M Dhiren Singh won two gold medals each in men's physique and body building, while Ritu Rani added another yellow metal in women's 59kg wrestling.

Borax, a versatile household cleaner, finds its place as a laundry detergent, a pesticide for ants and cockroaches and even a weed killer. But some social media users are also trying to promote it for questionable and potentially harmful uses, such as adding it to water or coffee and bathing in it.

By Jesse Winter

Due to an out-of-control wildfire that has crossed the border from the US stae of Washington, authorities have issued an evacuation order for the Canadian town of Osoyoos and its surrounding district. According to the British Columbia Wildfire Service, the wildfire, called Eagle Bluff, is approximately 4 kilometres (2.49 miles) from Osoyoos.

For Nadia Harlow, the owner of Spice of Life, produce runs have become a bit of a shot in the dark. She is never sure she’ll find the right peppers she needs to make her hot sauce in Pefferlaw, Ont.

By Steve Scherer

Koppal and Belgavi — have emerged as hubs for contract manufacturing of toys and aircraft components over the past decade.Aequs, a contract manufacturer of aerospace components, toys and consumer durable goods, is now venturing into the aircraft interiors sector — so far the domain of China. «Till now, it has been happening mostly out of China, and today we have an opportunity to start doing it out of India because we are able to compete on a high volume,» Aequs Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Aravind Melligeri told PTI in an interview. «It is a whole another opportunity.

Port workers in the province of British Columbia have voted to reject a mediated contract offer meant to end a labor dispute that stopped goods moving in and out of harbors, including at Canada’s busiest port in Vancouver