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The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate on hold on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, as it said the country's economy won't fully recover what was lost to COVID-19 until 2022, with the road to there dependent on the path of the pandemic.

Oil-producing countries including those of the OPEC cartel and Russia are trying to strike a global deal to pump less crude in a bid to limit a crash in prices that, while welcome for consumers, has been straining government budgets and pushed energy companies toward bankruptcy.

The annual pace of inflation edged higher in February as gains in most spending categories offset lower gasoline prices, Statistics Canada said on Friday, March 22, 2019.

Canada and its allies are well down the road to crafting a long-term, post-Maduro recovery plan for Venezuela's disastrous economic decline, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday, February 25, 2019, night

A rise in the Canadian dollar helped keep food prices in check.