Canada's economy showed signs of rebounding by growing 0.5 per cent in April, reversing months of slow and negative economic growth. Real gross domestic product is up half a percentage point largely because of growth in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sectors, Statistics Canada said in its latest report , released Tuesday.

Is Canada's so-called "technical recession" already over? Canada's economy likely grew by 0.4 per cent in April.

The economy sprung back to life in April with solid enough growth to dismiss the spectres of a recession, according to economists weighing in on the latest data Tuesday.