U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestion that the U.S. annex its northern neighbor prompted new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to invite Charles to give the speech from the throne on Tuesday where he will lay out the Canadian government’s agenda when Parliament reopens.

Canadian retail sales grew by 0.8% in March from February, more than analysts had forecast, and looked set to have increased by 0.5% in April, Statistics Canada data indicated on Friday. The largest increase was the 4.

The country is just emerging from a period of political turmoil. But now Alberta, a conservative Western province, is planning a referendum to break away.

Each morning, travellers and cargo take off from Montreal’s Trudeau airport for a 1,600-kilometre flight to Puvirnituq in northern Quebec aboard a nearly 50-year-old Air Inuit plane.

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem on Thursday said he expected second quarter growth to be "quite a bit weaker" than the first quarter, citing sluggish investment and the effect of U.S. tariffs.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Canadian Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne met on the sidelines of the G-7 as the two countries try to tamp down trade tensions that have roiled the bilateral relationship for months.

Top oil and gas executives in Canada and the United States confirmed Alberta's top industry companies would love to get past any tariff issues and begin building pipelines.

TD Bank on Thursday said it would lay off 2% of its workforce to cut costs and scale up its digital and AI investments, as the bank restructures following its historic anti-money laundering settlement under new CEO Ray Chun.