ESKASONI, N.S. — Shara Poulette shared her anticipation of working in her home community of Eskasoni. A continuing-care assistant who previously worked at Harbourstone Enhanced Care in Sydney, Poulette says the impact Kiknu — a new long-term care ...

There are numerous metrics to gauge a nation’s wealth, and one revealing measure is how much its citizens spend on food relative to their disposable income. The Trudeau government has expressed a commitment to aid the impoverished and disadvantaged.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Petz said on Friday it had agreed to merge with rival Cobasi in a cash and share swap deal that would create the country's largest pet product retailer. Shares in Petz jumped as much as 47% in Friday morning trade, ...

By Echo Wang and Abigail Summerville NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's North America head of consumer and retail equity capital markets (ECM) Tilli Dias Passi will leave the bank, according to people familiar with the matter. Passi is taking ...

(Reuters) - Progress on bringing down inflation has "stalled" this year, Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said on Friday, becoming the latest U.S. central banker to retreat from an earlier focus on the coming need for interest ...

By Abigail Summerville NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adam Taetle, a senior managing director at Evercore who advised on several transactions in the consumer & retail industry, will be leaving the investment bank, according to people familiar with the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank of England Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said on Friday that inflation could hold around the central bank's 2% target for the next three years rather than rise higher as set out in the BoE's most recent forecasts. "For ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) -Top oilfield services firm SLB reported a 14% rise in first-quarter profit on Friday, in line with analysts' estimates, as strong oil and gas drilling demand in the Middle East and Africa helped offset weakness in North American ...

By Francesco Canepa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Italy and France should cut spending faster than they currently plan to keep debt under control while Germany should loosen its own purse strings to revive growth, the International Monetary Fund said on ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China published measures on Friday aimed at promoting overseas investment in its technology sector, in a latest bid to attract foreign investors amid signs some are considering shifting away from the world's second-largest ...