Illustrative stock photo: Franki Chamaki via Unsplash, under the Unsplash License. Resized; not a photograph of a Sobeys or Empire store or property.
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The Competition Bureau says Empire’s commitments to stop restrictive covenants and limit exclusivity clauses are now legally binding and enforceable.
Illustrative stock photo: John Matychuk via Unsplash, under the Unsplash License. Resized; not a photograph of the reported registry data.
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Canadian road-vehicle registrations rose 3.1% to 27.6 million in 2025, while electric vehicles represented 6.5% of the light-duty fleet.
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Canada’s 23 largest air carriers reported $9.0 billion in operating revenue and carried 21.9 million passengers in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Illustrative stock photo: Briana Tozour via Unsplash, under the Unsplash License. Resized; not a photograph of July 2026 travel activity.
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Canadian residents made 2.8 million return trips from the United States in July, up 10.1% from a year earlier but still well below July 2024.
Illustrative image: project planning. Photo by Daniel McCullough via Unsplash; resized.
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Bill C-39 proposes one-year federal project reviews, designated trade corridors and changes to federally regulated labour rules.
Illustrative image: industrial storage tanks, not the Tilbury facility. Photo by JGC Indonesia via Unsplash; resized.
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The federal environment minister has found the Tilbury Phase 2 LNG project’s adverse federal effects justified, subject to binding conditions.
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Building-construction investment increased to $23.6 billion in July, led by non-residential work, while multi-unit residential investment declined.
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Statistics Canada says 23.2% of households spent at least 30% of before-tax income on shelter in 2024, up from 22.0% in 2022.
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Canada’s trade tribunal will examine whether dumped wheat gluten from Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom has harmed or threatens domestic producers.
Illustrative commercial solar-rooftop photo by Bernd Dittrich via Unsplash; cropped/resized.
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The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has ended an expiry review, so anti-dumping and countervailing duties on certain Chinese photovoltaic modules will no longer continue.
Illustrative laboratory photo by Julia Koblitz via Unsplash; cropped/resized.
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The federal Life Sciences Fund will direct $67 million to manufacturing, research and health-security projects across Canada.
Illustrative shipping view near Singapore by Shawn via Unsplash; cropped/resized.
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Canada and Singapore say they will negotiate a non-binding economic cooperation framework covering technology, energy, food security, investment and supply chains.
