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Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Bombardier Inc. plans to push harder into the military market, as the biggest global security crisis in decades has Western governments looking to boost their [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff In the labour-force wreckage wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's commercial airline pilots stand out as an anomaly. No other group of white-collar workers with [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Canadian convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says it is seeing an improving environment for mergers and acquisitions as it hunts for its next big [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Maine's highest court has sided with Hydro-Québec and its commercial partner, Avangrid Inc., in a high-profile dispute over a new electricity transmission line that would [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, NICOLAS VAN PRAET Roiling world markets have taken their toll on Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, as the pension giant lost $33.6billion in the first [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff WSP Global Inc. is eyeing more takeovers in the months and years ahead as the Canadian engineering giant pursues its relentless growth in a quest [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff BRP Inc. plans to bring its snowmobile factory in Valcourt, Que., back online in the coming days, but the rest of the company's operations remain [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Canadian engineering giant WSP Global Inc. is buying British environmental consulting firm RPS Group PLC in a deal worth almost a billion dollars, [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- BRP Inc. said it has been hit by a cyberattack and has suspended operations temporarily. The maker of Sea-Doo watercraft and Ski-Doo snowmobiles [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- BRP Inc. is pushing out from cottage country into the city. The maker of Sea-Doos and Ski-Doos said Friday it has bought an [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Bombardier Inc. says its business is generating more cash than previously expected as the Canadian luxury jet maker shakes off recession worries and [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is deepening its presence in Europe's rail transport industry with the purchase [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Earlier this year, Frédéric Arnault, the lanky twentysomething head of LVMH's Tag Heuer brand and potential heir to the Paris-based luxury empire, presented a novelty [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES, NICOLAS VAN PRAET Suncor Energy Inc. faces a companytransforming choice: Whether to garner billions of dollars in one-time proceeds from a sale of Petro-Canada or keep reaping [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Canadian and international companies continue to make record investments in the Montreal area this year as the region shakes off the effects of the continuing [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Via Rail has reached two tentative labour pacts with its workers after late night bargaining, allowing the passenger train service to dodge a [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Quebec's securities watchdog has filed insider-trading charges against a former executive at pension fund giant Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and two other [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Canada's big family-controlled companies appear to be coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic with more stock market momentum than widely held corporations as they maintain [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Workers in signals and communications have gone on strike at Canadian National Railway Co. in a development that threatens to exacerbate transport bottlenecks [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, SEAN SILCOFF Quebec's most sweeping language law overhaul in nearly half a century is raising alarm among the province's homegrown technology companies, whose executives say the [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Dubai's state-owned logistics giant DP World is selling stakes in the city's port and two other prized assets to Caisse de dépôt et placement du [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Canadian engineering giant WSP Global Inc. is buying John Wood Group PLC's environment business in a deal that cements its position as one of the [...]

Byline: Nicolas Van Praet; Staff (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.) 2,000+ employees 600,000 workers dressed worldwide, including 320,000+ Canadians When Canadian soldiers and their allies in countries like Australia and Germany suit up [...]

The trick for Transat will be to identify routes that are profitable but that Air Canada and WestJet care less about, so they don't defend them with the usual 'search [...]

Byline: Nicolas Van Praet; Staff (Montreal) 3,000 employees 120+ brands including Ray-Ban, Tom Ford and Cartier It's been roughly a year since New Look Vision went private in a bid [...]

Byline: Nicolas Van Praet; Staff (Schomberg, Ont.) 175 employees (plus 600 part-timers during peak season) 5 million plants sold annually What's the next big thing in Canadian gardening? Jeff Olsen [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Quebecor Inc. is poised to begin a wireless push outside its home market, either by buying Shaw Communications Inc.'s cellphone service or by [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Quebec prosecutors have received court approval for a deferred prosecution agreement with Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the first such deal since the new [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. says it is seeing exceptionally strong demand for its services, but an increase in work prospects means it is spending more on [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff One of Canada's most storied maple syrup companies has been taken over by U.S. private equity giant Bain Capital, in a sign the amber-coloured sweetener [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is stepping away from a proposed new $10-billion lightrail line in eastern Montreal after [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Aviation has always been a highly romanticized affair, with images of champagne-sipping travellers flying to exotic destinations anchored in a history of daredevil fighter pilots [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway Co. is coming under fire from shareholders and governance experts for failing to nominate any executives whose first language is [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Quebec's securities watchdog is building an insider-trading case against a former executive at pension fund giant Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and several [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, NICOLAS VAN PRAET Bombardier Inc. has a plan to boost its sagging stock price: a share consolidation that will take millions of its shares off the market. [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff A notorious ransomware gang known as Conti has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Rio Tinto PLC's Aluminerie Alouette Inc. smelter in Sept-Îles, Que., in [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest with US$1.3-trillion in assets, has put Bombardier Inc. on a watch list as it weighs whether to pull [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, CHRIS HANNAY MONTREAL, TORONTO -- Global convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is suspending operations in Russia after a nearly three-decade run, the latest Canadian company [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, JASON KIRBY, CHRIS HANNAY On a Thursday morning in early February, roughly three dozen Russia-based managers for some of the West's biggest blue chip multinationals gathered [...]

Byline: CHRIS HANNAY AND NICOLAS VAN PRAET Canadian luxury jet maker Bombardier Inc. is breaking off all dealings with Russian customers, including wealthy individuals who've already bought its jets and [...]

Byline: CHRIS HANNAY, NICOLAS VAN PRAET Magna International Inc., the Canadian auto-parts giant, says it is idling its Russian operations in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine. The assault [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, CHRIS HANNAY As the list of international companies pulling out of Russia grows longer by the day, Canadian corporations doing business there are grappling with difficult [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Canadian engineering company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. and U.S. energy technology specialist Holtec International are breaking off a four-year-old joint venture that works on cleaning up [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, NICOLAS VAN PRAET Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec posted a 13.5-per-cent, benchmark-beating return in 2021 - but the path forward is [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff MONTREAL -- Canadian luxury jet maker Bombardier Inc. says it is closely watching the situation in Ukraine and will cancel aircraft deals with Russian customers [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, NICOLAS VAN PRAET Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec says it recently sold hundreds of millions of dollars in stock of seven Russian companies that Canada [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated Quebec's labour crisis and profoundly changed the prospects for certain business sectors as some segments of the population retreat from [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, Staff Lead Hydro-Québec has struck a deal to buy electricity from Brookfield Renewable Partners LP unit Evolugen under a 40-year contract as the Quebec utility shores [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, Staff Lead Cascades Inc. is warning its latest quarterly profit will come in lower than previously expected because of increased disruptions related to COVID-19 - the [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, Staff Lead Questerre Energy Corp. has gained additional First Nations support for its push to develop what it calls a 'zero-emissions' natural gas hub in Quebec, [...]