If Hudson’s Bay was still kicking, today would have been its 356th birthday. When it died last year, it lost the title of Canada’s oldest company. This is the story of how I searched for its successor. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/tra...

Buyers have been found for four properties that used to be home to Hudson's Bay department stores. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/buy...

The war in the Middle East will soon make your kid's favourite toys more expensive to produce and deliver to store shelves. Spin Master says a blockage of one of the region's key shipping routes is pushing up its freight, resin and packaging costs. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/toy...

Blue Jay Davis Schneider’s brother died of an opioid overdose. Now, he’s rallying to save others. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/davis... by Nicole Ireland

FIFA's marketplace for resale World Cup tickets no longer has seats listed for Toronto matches after a new price cap law came into effect. Meanwhile, StubHub is selling seats above face value because it has “outstanding questions” about legislation. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/tor...

Lululemon has named another new board member as the company continues to face criticism over its recent performance. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...

McDonald’s Canada is reimagining the drink menu you grew up with. Its new, permanent cornerstones will be dirty sodas, fruity refreshers and foamy iced coffees. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/mov...

Fashion brands like Lululemon have recently been suing companies that copy their designs, but experts and a designer who has seen their work imitated say it won't do much to tamp down on the phenomenon. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cop...

Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere has signed a deal with Germany's Aleph Alpha in a bid to create an independent alternative to global tech giants dominating the field. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/cohe...

Ticketmaster Canada is delisting some resale tickets that customers have posted for Ontario events. StubHub says it needs more guidance on Ontario's new regulations. How companies are coping with the resale cap: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/tic...

Lululemon is putting its trust in former Nike executive Heidi O’Neill, naming her CEO after facing months of backlash about its current management and performance. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Phone keep telling you you’re out of space for photos and files? I asked the pros how to find more room — affordably www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/runn...

A new partnership Wealthsimple has struck with social media platform X could greatly expand the finance company's reach — but some critics are raising concerns about the risk for investors. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/wea...

Breaking: Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing markets, a federal jury finds

AI Minister Evan Solomon will meet with Anthropic leadership tomorrow over cyber risks posed by Mythos. The LLM can find & exploit weaknesses in all major operating systems & web browsers, putting computers — including those used by Canadian banks & government agencies — at risk

The CEO of Hootsuite stepped down after spending the last several months defending a contract with a controversial U.S. government department. Replacing her on an interim basis is the firm’s founder. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/hoo...

The brass signs that adorned Hudson's Bay's Toronto flagship location are up for sale. The last one to be auctioned off sold for $55,250. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/bra...

Come be my new colleague. The Canadian Press is looking for an experienced business reporter with a strong grip on finances and an ability to break big stories. apply.workable.com/the-canadian...

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Saskatchewan has ended mandatory movie ratings, potentially paving the way for more independent films to make it to the big screen. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/it-... by @jeremysimes.bsky.social

MTY Food Group, the restaurant conglomerate behind Thai Express, Manchu Wok and Mr. Sub, is seeing expenses rise as tensions flare in the Middle East, but the added costs aren't holding up a rebound for the business. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/ira...

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

The CEO of Roots highlighted today the retailer's progress in improving its profitability as the business pushes on with its strategic review. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/roo...

One of the joys — and learning curves — with covering the fall of Canada’s oldest company has been learning about the art world. This is the story of how a Canadian auction house unravelled the mystery behind who painted one of HBC’s oldest portraits www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/how...

Canoes, outdoor furniture, a pickleball set and towels are among the first products Canadian Tire has designed with the iconic Hudson's Bay stripes. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/can...

Toys “R” Us Canada is battling tech giant Acer, a Calgary swingers club and a Russian business over trademarks the struggling retailer says will cause confusion with its own branding. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/toy...

Seemingly all of Silicon Valley is convinced that A.I. will bring on the end of work, or at the very least massive job losses. Economists have been skeptical, bordering on dismissive. But lately that has begun to change. Economists are starting to take A.I. seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

A new survey suggests many Canadians prefer hybrid or fully remote work, but women are less likely than men to work at places that offer such flexibility. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/wom...

Clothing brands Garage and Dynamite are so far seeing "really nominal" cost increases, driven by strife in the Middle East, but that burden could grow the longer the conflict drags on. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/gro... #$GRGD

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Liberal government proposes making it easier for federal agencies to share and reuse the personal data of Canadians through a major overhaul of the Privacy Act. Our story: tinyurl.com/4hy8d2hb #cdnpoli #cdnfoi

Toys "R" Us Canada has received court permission to put itself up for sale. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/toy...

Masai Ujiri is becoming a principal owner of the WNBA's Toronto Tempo. I spoke with Ujiri and Tempo team president Teresa Resch about him joining the ownership group www.cbc.ca/sports/baske...

Sunshine List of $100,000 earners in public sector tops 400,000 for first time

Xanadu, the Toronto-based quantum computing darling, made its stock exchange debut Friday. I caught up with CEO Christian Weedbrook just after he opened the Nasdaq www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/qua...

Rose had exacting standards but also a huge heart. This is such sad news. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/pil...

As Toys "R" Us Canada prepares to ask a court for permission to put the business up for sale, it's closing at least two more stores. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/toy...

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As conflict in the Middle East drives up the cost of many daily essentials, the head of Dollarama says the company will try to resist hiking its own prices as much as possible. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/dol...

Google is arguing it shouldn't have to pay about $370,000 in legal fees and other costs the Competition Commissioner is seeking after the tech giant lost a constitutional challenge. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/goo...

DoorDash Canada is giving couriers some extra cash for the next month to help with increasing gas prices, but one expert says the money is not enough to cover the rise in fuel costs and is really just a way to convince drivers not to log off. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/doo...

The Ford government’s push to cap resale ticket prices in Ontario is unenforceable, will drive up the original price of tickets and will lure people into riskier transactions, experts tell me. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/entertainmen...

An Ontario court has extended the reprieve Hudson’s Bay has from creditors. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/ont...

Instagram worse for mental health than WhatsApp, global study finds

Canadian computer scientist Gilles Beassard is one of this year's recipients of the A.M Turing Award. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/can...

Lululemon’s founder says the announcement that a longtime board member won't stand for re-election is "a step in the right direction," but his replacement is "underwhelming." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...

Higher gas prices may be rattling consumers, but the head of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard isn't worried about it causing a dramatic hit to his business. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/ali...

Fewer logos, more focus on colour and a more thoughtful selection of small accessories. Lululemon says change is taking shape at the brand, which has been battered with criticism from its estranged founder since the holidays. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...