Montreal is bringing back its
controversial 2.99 per cent five-year fixed-rate mortgages. BMO
sparked a mortgage price war among the banks early last year
when it first introduced the rate, one that angered Finance
Minister Jim Flaherty, who has been worrying that Canadians are
taking on too much mortgage debt. The bank stopped offering the
rate later in 2012.

* Lawyers for Bell Mobility Inc will appear in a Yellowknife
courtroom on Monday, facing off in a class-action lawsuit
launched on behalf of Northern residents who were charged for
911 service on their cellphone bills despite not being able to
dial it in an emergency.

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* Canada's newest have-not region, southern Ontario, got its
own billion dollar bailout fund from Ottawa in 2009, after
recession devastated the province's manufacturing sector. Four
years later, the first report card on how the money wasa source of cautious optimism for
shell-shocked companies and investors. The industry's largest
event, expected to draw more than 30,000 people, kicked off
Sunday in Toronto. And while none of the speakers pretended that
these are pleasant times for mining companies, they tried to
remind everyone that some positive fundamentals are still in
place.