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Scams related to parcels and deliveries typically increase this time of year, but the work stoppage at Canada Post has led to even more fraud attempts, says Equifax Canada.

The Canada Emergency Business Account program lent 898,000 small businesses $49.1 billion to help cover expenses such as rent and payroll during the pandemic.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index moved lower Monday, weighed down by weakness in energy stocks, while U.S. stock markets were mixed on the first trading day of December.

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Securities Commission has imposed more than $18 million in sanctions on a cryptocurrency trading platform and its owner who it says diverted customers' assets to gambling and personal accounts.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are kicking off December by drifting around their record heights. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in early trading Monday after closing its best month of the year at an all-time high.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has demanded the federal government present a plan before Parliament to beef up border security as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatens to impose stiff tariffs on Canada.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said its negotiators are reviewing the documents, and noted the union and Canada Post have both adjusted their demands in the hope of restarting talks.

The in-person meeting came at the end of a rocky week in which Trump threatened to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico, unless the two countries stop illegal border crossings and prevent illicit drugs from entering the United States.

Trudeau's plane landed in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday evening, not far from where Trump's transition team is based at his Mar-a-Lago estate.