Canada logged its first trade surplus in eight months in September as exports rebounded and domestic demand showed signs of softening, the Wall Street Journal reported. The country recorded a small merchandise-trade surplus of 153 million Canadian dollars, the equivalent of about $110.9 million, Statistics Canada said Thursday. That was essentially a balanced trade position, as exports jumped even as imports pulled back. The shift in the balance from a revised C$6.43 billion deficit in August was considerably stronger that the C$4.5 billion shortfall that economists expected.

Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem is trying to throw some cold water on signs showing that the country’s economy is suddenly heating up, the Wall Street Journal reported. The latest readings on the labor market show a steep drop in the unemployment rate and after three months of strong job growth. Revised data also now indicate the economy was healthier than previously believed before the U.S. trade conflict. Also, third-quarter growth blew past tepid expectations.

Newfoundland and Labrador's consumer insolvency rate saw slowed growth in the latest updates published by the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy on Tuesday, but still far outpaced the national average, CBC.ca reported. The province saw a 5.9 per cent increase in bankruptcies and proposals for the 12-month period ending on Oct. 31. That's down from 8.9 per cent the month before, but a far cry from the national average of 0.7 per cent in the latest update. Sean Stack, a licensed insolvency trustee in St.

A $1 million haul of cash and gold tied to QuadrigaCX's co-founder has been forfeited to the government of British Columbia, signaling the strongest test yet of the Province’s unexplained wealth order framework, CoinDesk.com reported. The Supreme Court of British Columbia granted the forfeiture after Michael Patryn did not contest the action, clearing the way for the Province to liquidate 45 gold bars, luxury watches, and more than $250,000 in cash seized during an earlier investigation, according to a Vancouver Sun report.

Canada’s government formally told the global automaker Stellantis on Thursday that its transfer of the production of its Jeep Compass from a suburban Toronto plant to Illinois meant that the company had defaulted on contracts covering hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance, the New York Times reported. “Stellantis is on the hook,” Mélanie Joly, the Canadian industry minister, told a parliamentary committee after announcing that the government had served the company with a “notice of default” on Thursday.

Canacol Energy Ltd., a Canadian natural gas exploration and production company with operations in Colombia, has formally requested that the Colombian Superintendencia de Sociedades (Superintendency of Corporations) recognize its ongoing Canadian insolvency proceedings, FinanceColombia.com reported. The objective of the petition is to suspend all execution processes and protective measures that could affect the continuity of its operations in Colombia. The request, submitted by KPMG INC.

As Canada turns to stablecoin regulation, Scotiabank argued that the move is unlikely to shake domestic markets, CoinDesk.com reported. Any framework is really about upgrading payment speed, efficiency and 24/7 settlement, rather than managing systemic risk, economist Derek Holt wrote in last week's report. In November, the government committed itself to legislation that will regulate stablecoins backed by the Canadian dollar. It follows in the footsteps of the U.S. which passed a law to govern stablecoin issuers in recent months.

Ireland wants to help Canadian tech companies scale up across the Atlantic Ocean, its enterprise minister told The Logic, as the country gets ready to shepherd new regulations on artificial intelligence through the European Union next year. Peter Burke, Ireland’s minister for enterprise, tourism and employment, was in Toronto and Ottawa last week on a mission to expand trade and investment with Canada—especially through greater connections in the tech sector.

Canacol Energy Ltd. announced that the it and certain subsidiaries filed for relief under chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, according to a press release. The petitions for relief seek recognition of the Company’s Canadian proceeding commenced under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, or CCAA, in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta as a foreign main proceeding. At a hearing held on November 20, 2025, the U.S.

Montauk Metals Inc. filed a corporate assignment into bankruptcy pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) (the “BIA”), according to a press release. The filing comes after the Board was unable to reach a settlement with its creditors. The Fuller Landau Group Inc. has been appointed as the Licensed Insolvency Trustee (the “Trustee”) under the bankruptcy proceedings.