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Toronto's 'Sky Park' Is The City's Answer To High Line Envy
Ever since New York opened its High Line Park, a railroad track converted to urban greenspace, cities around the world have looked with envy at New York’s overground playground. (If you haven’t been,...
View ArticleJapanese Trader Offloads $1-Billion Canadian Coal Mine For $1
Marubeni Corp., a Japanese trader that with a partner bought Canada’s Grande Cache Coal Corp. for about $1-billion (U.S.) three years ago, said it would dispose of the asset for a nominal $1 to a Hong...
View ArticleGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt Cops To Keeping A BlackBerry On The Side
TORONTO - Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt made a rare visit to Canada on Wednesday, to help announce a $1.5 million grant to support the educational charity Actua and speak at an event...
View ArticleStaples Shuts 15 Stores In Canada, Announces It After The Fact
The great Canadian retail shakeup continues, with Staples retroactively announcing on Wednesday it had shuttered 15 of its Canadian locations at the end of last month. The stores represent nearly 5 per...
View ArticleGermany Scraps Tuition Fees. Should Canada Follow?
Attention Canadian students: How is your German? If you’re tired of fretting about how to pay tuition as rates rise to record levels, you may want to consider making a move to Deutschland....
View ArticleFur Institute Of Canada Lobbied Tories Over RCMP Muskrat Hats Decision
OTTAWA - A national fur organization says it raised objections with federal cabinet ministers upon learning the RCMP planned to begin outfitting officers with tuques instead of muskrat hats.The Fur...
View ArticleTangerine Banking App To Add Biometric Security Features
TORONTO - Smartphone users who bank with Tangerine will soon find some new options on their mobile app, including voice recognition and fingerprint scanning.The Canadian bank, which operates without...
View ArticleVancouver's Jericho Lands Sold To B.C. First Nations, Crown Corporation
VANCOUVER - Three British Columbia First Nations have agreed to a partnership deal with a federal government body over three valuable parcels of land in Metro Vancouver.The agreement was signed...
View ArticleHarper: Federal Deficit To Come In At $5.2B, Down From $16.6B
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says last year's federal deficit will be more than $10 billion smaller than forecast, but he's refusing to predict the rapidly improving bottom line will mean...
View ArticleTop 10 Toughest New Cars To Negotiate
Shopping for a new car doesn't have to be a stressful and frustrating experience. Here at Autoblog Canada, we're always working hard to provide car shopping tips and advice on things like the cheapest...
View ArticleCanadian CEOs Earn 206 Times As Much As The Average Worker
The gap between CEO earnings and workers’ pay is wider in Canada than almost anywhere else in the world, according to data from the AFL-CIO. The U.S. labour group’s database shows Canadian CEOs on...
View ArticleLotto-Winning Bombardier Employees Settle Dispute
A settlement has been reached between 24 winners of a $50-million Lotto Max jackpot and Christopher Bates, a man who claimed to be part of the winning lottery group. A group of mechanics and...
View ArticleRisk Of New Financial Crisis Growing, And Canada Is In Crosshairs
The world is facing a “poisonous combination” of low economic growth and low inflation that could cause another financial crisis, according to the latest Geneva Report on the World Economy. And the...
View ArticleSaskPower's Carbon Capture Project Draws Global Interest
ESTEVAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's power utility is heralding its carbon capture and storage project, touted as the world's first commercial-scale operation of its kind.SaskPower says more than 250 people...
View ArticleGoogle Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos
Marty Singer, a Los Angeles lawyer representing over a dozen female celebrities, is threatening to sue Google for $100 million US over nude photos leaked online from personal iCloud accounts. In a...
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Pretty Much Nobody Wants The 2022 Winter Olympic Games (PHOTOS)
The host city for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games might as well be decided with a coin toss. Oslo has withdrawn its bid to host the Games, leaving only Beijing and Almaty as candidate cities. The...
View ArticleCanada Swings To $610-Million Trade Deficit, From $2.2-Billion Surplus
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's merchandise trade balance with the world went from a surplus of $2.2 billion in July to a deficit of $610 million in August.The federal agency says...
View ArticleCanada's Best Universities For Landing The Exact Job You Want
Social site LinkedIn is the latest institution to try its hand at a university ranking, but LinkedIn’s approach is a little different. It’s using its database of some 260 million subscribers to figure...
View ArticleCanadian Dollar Drops Sharply Amid Weak Trade Data, Strong U.S. Jobs Report
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar fell three-quarter of a U.S. cent Friday to close at a fresh six-month low as Canadian trade data for August widely missed expectations and the greenback strengthened amid...
View ArticleUS Unemployment: September Sees 248K Jobs Added, Unemployment At 6-Year Low
WASHINGTON - A surge in hiring last month helped drive the nation's unemployment rate down to a six-year low of 5.9 per cent — within striking distance of what economists consider a healthy level.The...
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