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EDMONTON — Increased Indigenous participation in Alberta's labour market could boost the province's GDP by between two and three percentage points, the equivalent of $8 billion to $11 billion annually, according to the findings of a new report.

HALIFAX — Chorus Aviation Inc. says its shareholders have voted to approve the sale of the company's regional aircraft leasing business to HPS Investment Partners. The Halifax-based company says the $1.9-billion deal was greenlighted by 98.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is extending the provincial fuel-tax holiday until the end of the year. It's the second time the government has extended the temporary tax break since introducing it in January.

OTTAWA — Population growth in Canada slowed slightly in the last quarter of the year as the government made efforts to reduce temporary migration into the country, Statistics Canada revealed Wednesday.

Climate change is driving and intensifying extreme weather in the world’s major coffee-producing countries, jeopardizing future crops and putting pressure on global prices.

TORONTO — Anthem Sports & Entertainment has acquired independent Canadian broadcaster Hollywood Suite.

WENTWORTH, N.S. — A 17-turbine wind farm in central Nova Scotia is receiving a $118-million low-interest loan from a federal Crown corporation.

The carbon fiber hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process and behaved differently after a loud bang was heard on one of the dives the year before

TORONTO — AGF Management Ltd. says its net income attributable to equity owners totalled $20.3 million in its latest quarter, down from $23.0 million in the same quarter last year.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another and their governments.