Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is standing firm on taking a voluntary approach with the food industry on trans fat, even though newly released documents show her department was ready to impose regulations in 2009.

Greece's coalition leaders have once again postponed a crucial meeting on new cutbacks, despite intense international pressure for Athens to bite the austerity bullet if it wants to avoid bankruptcy.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to China comes amid a renewed focus on Canada's natural resource exports, including oil and gas, forest products, minerals and agricultural products.

The Competition Bureau should look into price differences between goods sold in Canada and the U.S., a consumer group is suggesting, with many items selling for 20 or 30 per cent higher north of the border.

Partnerships are often a key ingredient to success in business. But when things turn bad, they ruin friendships as well as finances

Energy analysts expect the cost of gas to rise by between five and 20 cents per litre across the country in the spring and summer — although they're divided over whether these hikes will be as high as those expected in the U.S.

The CAW and Caterpillar Inc. are negotiating a severance package for the nearly 500 unionized Electro-Motive employees who are out of work, with the union threatening a plant occupation as a 'last resort.'

The Harper government has selected a strong proponent of supply management as the new CEO of the Crown corporation that oversees prices and production in the dairy sector.

Wal-Mart says it will spend $750 million to add 4.6 million square feet of retail space and 14,000 jobs in Canada this year.

The value of Canadian building permits issued in December totalled $6.8 billion in December, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday, up by 11.1 per cent from November.

A new report says immigrants are struggling in the job market more than ever, but Ottawa could easily fix the problem.

Mining company Xstrata and commodities dealer Glencore agree to a $90 billion US merger that will create the world's fourth-largest natural resources company, including control of former Falconbridge operations in Sudbury, Ont.

A Chinese state-owned corporation wants the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a ruling that would force it to stand trial in the deaths of two oilsands workers.

In another blow to troubled Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, energy drilling giant Halliburton Co. says it will replace its company-issued BlackBerrys with competitor Apple's iPhone.

BP PLC has raised its quarterly dividend by 14 percent after posting double-digit gains in profit and revenue in the last three months of 2011 despite further big payments to compensate for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.