Canadian economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter

OTTAWA -- The economy expanded at an annualized pace of 0.4 per cent over the final three months of 2018 as the country posted its weakest quarterly growth since the middle of 2016, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency's latest figures for real gross domestic product show that for all of last year the economy grew 1.8 per cent, compared with the three per cent expansion in 2017. The fourth-quarter reading of 0.4 per cent came in lower than Canada's two per cent growth in the previous quarte