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Winnipeg gold retailers are unusually busy as customers sell off or invest in gold amid rising prices, but businesses are also wrestling with ways to make their goods more attainable.  “It is a roller-coaster,” said Paul Szurlej, co-owner of Golden Hand Jewellery in Winnipeg. “People are selling, people are trading, …

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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Cassandra Shedden has sometimes had to rummage around her home, looking for things to hawk, just to pay for baby formula.  The 33-year-old mother of three in …

There’s growing interest among U.S. investors in the Canadian oilpatch, a trend driven by friendlier rhetoric from the federal government and a belief that the industry north of the border will more reliably return cash to them in the years ahead. Jeremy McCrea, a Calgary-based managing director at BMO Capital …

Some Canadian jewelry brands are raising their prices as a surge in demand for gold — incited by investors’ fears of a shaky economic outlook — pushes the market for this precious metal to record highs. With confidence in the U.S. dollar eroding, and uncertainty weighing on the global economy, more …

U.S. inflation moved higher last month as the price of gas, groceries, hotel rooms and airfare rose, along with the cost of clothes and used cars. Consumer prices rose 2.9 per cent in August from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Tuesday, up from 2.7 per cent the previous month. It …

Canada’s inflation rate eased to 1.7 per cent in April, driven by a drop in prices after the federal government removed the consumer carbon tax, according to Statistics Canada. The slowdown came after the inflation rate hit 2.3 per cent in March. Lower crude oil prices were also a factor in …

A trip to the store is about to become more expensive for shoppers on both sides of the 49th parallel, as pre-tariff inventory runs out at Loblaw stores and Walmart is set to raise prices in the U.S. Loblaw Cos. Ltd. chief executive Per Bank said Wednesday in a LinkedIn …

Cattle prices have soared to what producers are calling record highs in 2025, offering long-awaited financial relief to Manitoba ranchers after years of stagnant returns and rising operational costs. Barry Lowes, a producer from McAuley in southwestern Manitoba, watched the Livestock Markets Association of Canada auction in Virden Friday, marking down prices in amazement …

A steep drop in oil prices in the first months of the year has undermined any plans for oil companies to “drill, baby drill.” But reaction to the plunging price of crude has played out differently in Canada versus the U.S, with companies south of the border eyeing production cuts while …