The Canadian government said Friday it would provide extraordinary financing to Canada Post to avoid insolvency at the state-owned mail service, the Wall Street Journal reported. The bridge financing totals 1.03 billion Canadian dollars, or the equivalent of $720 million, and will be provided on an as-needed basis to pay obligations. The government said Canada Post will fall below its necessary operating cash requirements this year. “Providing this cash injection will prevent insolvency and ensure the continuity of postal services,” the government said.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is looking to sell about $9 billion of residential mortgage loans as the Canadian lender adjusts its balance sheet to comply with a new cap imposed by US regulators, part of a plea agreement reached last year for its role in failing to prevent money laundering, Bloomberg News reported. The portfolio for sale consists of so-called jumbo mortgages taken out by US homeowners with relatively high credit scores, according to people familiar with the matter. Bids on the pool are due next week, the people added, asking not to be named because the details are confidential.

For the first time since 2019, Canadian inflation stayed within the central bank’s target range for a full year, a mark of achievement for policymakers ahead of a potential tariff war that threatens to derail their progress, Bloomberg News reported. The consumer price index ended 2024 with a second consecutive monthly deceleration, rising 1.8% on a yearly basis in December, down from 1.9% previously, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists was for a 1.9% gain.

The Bank of Canada says the bar for using exceptional monetary policy tools like quantitative easing and extraordinary forward guidance “should remain very high,” after reviewing its response to the Covid-19 pandemic to inform how it reacts to future crises, Bloomberg News reported. In a suite of documents released Friday, the central bank offered a wide-ranging review of its handling of the economic shock brought on by the novel coronavirus in early 2020. The report comes as US President-elect Donald Trump threatens tariffs that would likely tip Canada into a recession if enacted.

As Christmas holiday bills arrive, nearly half of surveyed British Columbians are "teetering on the edge of financial insolvency," with 31 per cent saying they're already unable to pay their bills, TodayinBC.com reported. These figures appear in the latest MNP Consumer Debt Index, which finds a "sharp increase" of nine per cent to 46 per cent among British Columbians, who are less than $200 from not being able to pay their bills and debt payments each month. This increase wipes out the nine percent improvement from the last report.

The beverage maker linked to Canada’s deadly listeria outbreak in plant-based milks last summer has filed for protection from creditors as it attempts to restructure, according to documents filed by its licensed insolvency trustee, the Globe and Mail reported. Joriki Inc., which operated a production facility in Pickering, Ont., that produced certain types of plant-based milks recalled in July, is seeking protection to restructure under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation, telling the nation that “internal battles” mean he “cannot be the best option” in the next election, the Associated Press reported. Trudeau said Monday he has asked the president of his Liberal Party to begin the process to select a new leader. He has faced rising discontent over his leadership, and the abrupt departure of his finance minister late last year signaled growing turmoil within his government. Parliament will be suspended until March 24. It had been due to resume Jan. 27.