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TORONTO — The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board earned a net return of 3.8 per cent in its latest quarter. The result came as CPP Investments' net assets grew to $699.6 billion at Dec. 31, up from $675.1 billion at the end of the previous quarter.

NEW YORK (AP) — The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of Ameri

Amid a "buy Canadian" push inspired by trade tensions with the U.S., some multinational food and beverage companies are working hard to highlight their Canadian-made products.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday, several U.S. officials said.

British Columbia's aluminum sector will find new markets beyond the United States, provincial Mines Minister Jagrup Brar said, after the prospect of American tariffs as high as 50 per cent on Canadian metal exports emerged. U.S.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can’t get private coverage needs $1 billion more to pay out claims related to the Los Angeles wildfires , the state Insurance Department said Tuesday.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can’t get private coverage needs $1 billion more to pay out claims related to the Los Angeles wildfires, the state Insurance Department said Tuesday.

TORONTO — Intact Financial Corp. says it earned $667 million in the fourth quarter. That's up 26 per cent from the $531 million it earned during the same quarter last year. The Toronto-based firm says earnings per share were $3.58, up from $2.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is launching a public inquiry into a construction project by Winnipeg City Hall that ran over budget and led to a police probe and lawsuits.

DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel imports this week could wreak havoc on American auto manufacturing, industry leaders say.