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CBC's Janyce McGregor explains what is expected in next week's fall economic statement and examines the latest remarks from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who declined to comment Tuesday on the expected size of the budget deficit.

A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges more than a dozen landlords and property managers have conspired to artificially inflate rents across Canada. The suit claims they did it by using a piece of software called YieldStar.

Michael Jarman, a Toronto financial modelling director, has become the undisputed world champion of managing spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. 

As the Canada Post strike involving more than 55,000 workers hit the 25-day mark, the union representing postal workers says it met with the Crown corporation and shared revisions to its latest proposal.

Canadian National Railway has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing its mechanical workers and clerks, the company announced on Monday, just two weeks after workers voted to authorize a strike.

Investors took geopolitical tumult in their stride on Monday, leaving oil and gold modestly higher while the U.S. dollar edged up ahead of inflation data this week that could cement a December rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table her much-anticipated fall economic update next week — a document that will give Canadians a look at the federal books at a time of great economic uncertainty.

Mayor Ken Sim wants Vancouver to become a bitcoin-friendly city, and that could include accepting payments for city services in cryptocurrency.

With the Canada Post strike now in its fourth week, some Canadians say they're frustrated with major courier companies like FedEx, UPS and Purolator that they've turned to as alternatives.

Calgary's unemployment rate is trending higher than the national average — but it's not about layoffs.

Last month, CBC News reported on a Quebec man who blamed the lane-centring technology in his car for causing an accident. Following the story, CBC received more than two dozen emails reporting similar concerns, including one about repeated braking issues out of Ontario.

A new poll provides fresh numbers to illustrate what many exhausted working women have been reporting for decades — work-life balance isn't exactly working out for them. The U.S. report that mirrors Canadian data suggests competing demands of work and home are part of the problem. 

After a massive cyberattack on U.S. telecom firms and dozens of countries by a hacker group backed by China, security experts are worried about communication networks and even the privacy of text messaging for individual citizens.