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TORONTO — Strength in the industrial and utility sectors helped lead Canada's main stock index higher, while U.S. stock markets fell in late-morning trading to start the year. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 89.50 points at 19,474.42.

Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs made an average of $14.3 million in 2021, smashing the previous record of $11.8 million set in 2018, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

TORONTO — Canadian investors who made it through a tumultuous 2022 face further uncertainty in the year ahead amid increased recession risk, higher interest rates, persistent inflation, a jittery stock market and a plummeting real estate market.

OTTAWA — There will be no new books or plays added to the public domain in Canada until 2043 after the government squeezed in a change to copyright laws just before the end of 2022. Until Dec.

VANCOUVER — In a year when pharmacists have stickhandled children's drug shortages and an extra-busy flu shot season, you'd think they might balk at the news in Ontario and B.C. that their prescriptive powers are being expanded.

VANCOUVER — Premiers across the country used their New Year's messages to emphasize everything from housing and affordability to healthy lifestyles.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Holiday Monday Before the first week of trading in 2023 gets underway, the Toronto Stock Exchange will be closed for trading Monday in lieu of New Year's Day.

Premier David Eby says he isn’t planning to call an early provincial election in 2023. Instead, he says he’ll keep working toward the scheduled October 2024 vote.

VICTORIA — Premier David Eby took office in B.C. amid a whirlwind of spending announcements and he's not making any resolutions of frugality in the new year.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was down in late-morning trading, with mild losses in most sectors partially offset by gains in telecom on news that the Competition Tribunal has dismissed a challenge to Rogers Communications Inc.