Canadian Press NewsAlert: Economy advances by 1.2 per cent in first quarter

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The Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa are pictured on May 1, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA – Canada’s economy grew by 1.2 per cent annualized in the first quarter of this year, after posting a 2.7 per cent expansion in the last three months of 2013. For the last month of the quarter, March, the economy edged ahead by 0.1 per cent over February.

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