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By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. There were no changes to the Bank of Canada’s key interest rates on Wednesday. The BoC opted to freeze its rates at 2.25 per cent as economic trends improved, In October, the central […] Read more

By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. United States President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to slap “very severe tariffs” on imports of Canadian-made fertilizer as a means to bolster domestic production. Trump’s comments came a day after he alluded […] Read more

By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. United States President Donald Trump was coy when asked by the media on Sunday if trade talks with Canada would soon resume. Trump responded with “we’ll see,” adding that he and Prime Minister […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.      – Statistics Canada reported that the Canadian economy added 54,000 new jobs in November, lowering unemployment by 0.4 of a point at 6.5 per cent. Economists had previously projected slight job losses. StatCan also said there were […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.      – Statistics Canada reported record large crops for canola and all wheat in its principal field crop estimates released on Thursday. Canola production for 2025-26 was pegged at 21.80 million tonnes, about 1.77 million more than the […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.      – Canada’s foreign affairs minister Anita Anand announced on Wednesday the federal government will spend more than C$200 million on military equipment for Ukraine through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List set up by NATO and the United […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.      – Prime Minister Mark Carney shuffled his cabinet on Monday, adding Marc Miller as the new minister of Canadian identity, culture and official languages. Miller was previously a cabinet minister under the Justin Trudeau government. In addition, […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.      – Torrential rains and flooding over the past week have taken the lives of more than 1,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand with thousands more missing. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto visited the island of Sumatra […] Read more

By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Economic growth in Canada during the third quarter of 2025 averted a recession, while far exceeding analysts’ expectations reports said on Friday. Statistics Canada said the real gross domestic product increased 2.6 per […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Firefighters continued to battle the deadly fires at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday. At least 65 people were confirmed dead from the fires that were believed to have started in […] Read more