Business

Innovative companies across the globe that have been able to adapt, be sustainable and embrace a forward-looking view are thriving and creating jobs, writes Jim Payne.

“This concept that we’ve had about things being waste, and no longer of any use, is completely artificial," says the founder and executive director of Vancouver non-profit Canopy.

The young founders of BIPOC Capital are pushing for Ottawa to allocate funds to an interest-free loan program for small- and medium-sized businesses owned by Black, Indigenous and other people of colour, plus mentorship and other support to help them thrive.

They’ve been closed or reduced to serving the odd overpriced takeout beer for most of 2020, but bar owners are still paying liability insurance as though drunken patrons are stumbling downstairs to the bathrooms, if they can retain coverage at all.

The latest monthly jobs data shows tens of thousands of teens lost work in January as part-time retail jobs disappeared, especially in Ontario and Quebec as second wave lockdown tightened.

The Paris Agreement calls on all countries to strengthen their initial targets this year. What should Canada aim for? Here are four charts illustrating the current situation and the choices ahead.

Forthcoming regulator will be able to impose "financial penalties" on digital platforms, minister confirmed.

Ontario sisters Jenny and Clarissa Vasquez opened a tamale pop-up sales business, joining the legions of young people innovating in tough times.

Two Canadian investment leaders endorsed a transition to clean energy at a virtual Davos World Economic Forum on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, as more investors worldwide push for concrete sustainability commitments.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. is winning praise from a coalition of environmental, health and labour groups for its commitment to stop using receipt paper that contains a potentially dangerous chemical.

“Any regulation needs to reflect the inherent complexity of the issue and the scale at which online platforms operate,” argues Google Canada.

Some Alberta rivers and streams have already been heavily contaminated by coal mining, unreported government data suggests.

There is more than enough oil to go around without the TC Energy Corp. pipeline project, writes former oil industry executive Ross Belot.