Netflix gains new ground in Europe - but faces competition, regulation in...
PARIS - Netflix is tapping into six new markets Monday hoping to gain a big subscriber base around Europe, but is facing a frosty welcome in France. Well-established French competitors are trying to...
View ArticleLook Who's Paying Canada's Highest Tuitions
Tuition fees for undergraduates in Canadian universities jumped an average of 3.3 per cent over the past year, StatsCan reported this week, marking yet another year that post-secondary costs...
View ArticleTrans Mountain Pipeline: Kinder Morgan Terminal Locked Down By Activists
A handful of activists locked themselves to the main gate of Kinder Morgan's Westridge Terminal Saturday morning vowing to remain for 13 hours or one hour for every tree the company cut doing survey...
View ArticleNetflix France May Face A 40% French-Content Rule
PARIS - Netflix is tapping into six new markets Monday hoping to gain a big subscriber base around Europe, but is facing a frosty welcome in France. Well-established French competitors are trying to...
View ArticleWhat next? If Scotland votes for independence, prepare for intense talks and...
LONDON - How do you divorce after a 300-year union? It's complicated, and there is a deadline.If Scots vote yes to separation on Thursday, a clock starts ticking down to March 24, 2016 — the...
View ArticleScottish Referendum Promises A Volatile Week On The Markets
Stock markets are in for a volatile time this week as traders look to the U.S. Federal Reserve for hints about whether the central bank will hike interest rates before the middle of next year and a...
View ArticleFederal Ministers Lobby For Share Of Surplus Money As House Of Commons Returns
OTTAWA - Like a fresh-baked pie on the window sill, the sweet smell of a surplus has mouths watering — but which ministers will get a piece in this critical pre-election period, and how will it trickle...
View ArticleChinese city creates cellphone sidewalk lane, inspired by Washington experiment
BEIJING, China - Taking a cue from an American TV program, the Chinese city of Chongqing has created a smartphone sidewalk lane, offering a path for those too engrossed in messaging and tweeting to...
View ArticleNeil Young And Daryl Hannah Dated 'For Months': Sources
News of Neil Young and his longtime wife Pegi Young divorcing shocked many recently. Now it appears that part of the explanation behind the dissolution is evident. According to reports from People...
View ArticleApp would help women in New York City find taxis with female drivers
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Sometimes a woman can be hard to find — if you're looking for one behind the wheel of a taxi in New York City.Less than 3 per cent of the city's about 115,000 licensed taxi, livery and...
View ArticleAir Canada, Pilots To Enter Contract Negotiations, Hoping To Avoid Previous...
MONTREAL - Air Canada is moving to begin contract negotiations with its pilots union early in hopes of avoiding the acrimony that marked the last round talks that ended up being eventually settled by a...
View ArticleNetflix Launches In France In Hopes Of Tapping New Markets
PARIS - Video-streaming giant Netflix has launched in France as part of a push to tap six new European markets.Founder and CEO Reed Hastings formally inaugurated the Gallic wing Monday with a red...
View ArticleCNRL Gets Go-Ahead To Resume Work At Primrose
CALGARY - Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) has been given the go-ahead to resume work at part of an oilsands project in eastern Alberta where a bitumen-water mixture was found oozing to the...
View ArticleUS stocks finish mostly lower as investors wait on Fed; manufacturing output...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - U.S. stocks are closing mostly lower as investors wait for the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting that starts on Tuesday.The Standard & Poor's 500 index eased one point, or...
View ArticleWest Face Capital-Led Group To Buy Wind Mobile
Wind Mobile’s Canadian founder is buying out its foreign owner and recapitalizing the company with the backing of several financial player
View ArticleVancouver Mayoral Candidate Proposes Fee For Empty Properties
A long-shot prospect for mayor of Vancouver wants to slap a punitive fee on investors who purchase property in the West Coast city but do not live in their residence on a full-time basis.
View ArticleTrudeau Proposes EI Premiums Break For Businesses Who Hire New Workers
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says employers who hire additional workers should get a two-year holiday from paying employment insurance premiums for those employees.The Liberal leader says his proposal would...
View ArticlePG&E officials removed for improper email communications with California...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four senior officials with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the state commission regulating it were removed or resigned over emails released Monday showing the utility and state...
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Deanna Bergeron Eats Fiancé's Ice Cream Treat, Wins $50-Million Lotto Max...
An Orillia woman’s promise to replace an ice cream treat she stole from her fiancé has made the couple $50 million richer. While Deanna Bergeron, 30, was at the store buying a make-up frozen treat for...
View ArticleApple releases special tool to delete free U2 album from iTunes after complaints
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Some iPhone users are not happy that U2's new album, "Songs of Innocence," was automatically added to their iTunes music library, free of charge. In response, Apple is releasing a...
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