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Business Canada’s banking regulator says real estate secured lending and mortgages are among the top risks the country’s financial system is facing, as higher interest rates pressure borrowers. Mortgage holders could potentially face payment shock due to higher interest ratesThe Canadian Press · Posted: May 22, 2024 3:27 PM EDTContinue Reading

Business Canada’s consumer price index cooled to 2.7 per cent in April, down from 2.9 per cent in March, led by a decline in the growth of food prices, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. Consumer price index was down from 2.9 per cent in March Jenna Benchetrit · CBC News ·Continue Reading

Business Company said it had “heard questions” about how it selects the lifelike audio options available for its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot and wanted to address them. Actor played an AI assistant in Spike Jonze’s dystopian 2013 romance filmThe Associated Press · Posted: May 20, 2024 9:13 PM EDT |Continue Reading

Business Large and often international companies have been snapping up local clinics around Canada, raising questions come about who’s in control of animal care, costs and the future of the independent vet. ‘The public’s going to have less choice,’ says one independent vet James Dunne · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Business·Marketplace CBC’s Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week. Consumer and health news you need from the week Jenny Cowley · CBC News · Posted: May 19, 2024 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 19 TD offers customer compensation after dispute only ifContinue Reading

Business Canadian fans are tallying up the cost of a flight, hotel and ticket, and are finding that travelling to Europe to see Taylor Swift in concert may be better bang for their buck than seeing the show on Canadian soil. Resale seats to shows in Sweden spotted for lessContinue Reading

Business Loblaw Companies Ltd. says it’s ready to sign on to the grocery code of conduct as long as other industry players do, too, paving the way for an agreement that’s been years in the making. Move is a shift for Canada’s largest food retailer, which previously said a codeContinue Reading

Customers fed up with anti-theft measures in storesCustomers say enhanced security measures at some Loblaw-owned grocery stores cross the line can be distressing for shoppers, but the company says it’s trying to fight a surge in organized retail crime. Susan Dennison recently had an unsettling experience at her local groceryContinue Reading

Business Shoppers may find themselves doing a double take in the olive oil section of their local grocery stores these days as industry analysts say prices have reached a record high. Average price per litre of extra virgin oil has more than doubled over the past 3 years Natalie Stechyson · CBC NewsContinue Reading