Loonie falls following holiday closures and no economic news set for release
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar was down nearly half a cent against the U.S. dollar on Friday, dipping 0.44 of a cent to 93.73 cents U.S.With no scheduled economic releases in either Canada or the United...
View ArticleNearly 50% of Canadian mobile users say their device is on hand 24/7: poll
TORONTO - If you can't bear to let your smartphone out of your sight for even a few minutes, you're not alone.According to the results of a recently released online poll, almost half of Canadian...
View ArticleStocks little changed in quiet trading; Yield on 10-year Treasury note climbs...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - An early gain was mostly gone by midday on Wall Street as the market flattens out after six days of gains.Trading was quiet with many investors out on vacation.The Dow Jones industrial...
View ArticleBlackBerry faces another year of uncertainty as CEO launches rescue attempt
TORONTO - BlackBerry hopes to clean the slate again as it heads into the new year with another lease on life and a leader who believes he can do what his predecessors couldn't — save the company from a...
View ArticleTarget Confirms Encrypted PIN Data Was Stolen In Data Breach
Target confirmed Friday that encrypted PIN data was stolen during the massive data breach that affected an estimated 40 million accounts. Though the PIN data was taken, Target representatives wrote in...
View ArticleSemCAMS Pleads Gulity, Fined After Pipeline Leak
EDMONTON - A Calgary-based natural gas company has been assessed $350,000 in fines after pleading guilty to a pipeline leak that killed hundreds of fish and damaged a creek in northern Alberta.SemCAMS...
View ArticleFederal judge finds NSA phone surveillance is legal; ACLU 'very...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The heated debate over the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records fell squarely into the courts Friday, when a federal judge in...
View ArticleWhy We Should All Fear The Righteous Online Mob
Justine Sacco ought to be tortured, shot and raped, preferably by someone with HIV, for what she said on Twitter -- at least according to a disturbing number of social media users. Such suggestions...
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Vancouver Appears In Weihai Condo Brochure (PHOTO)
UBC alumnus Nicole Sy opened her mailbox in Beijing one day to find a condo brochure with pictures that looked eerily like her former home. The news editor and anchor for China's Xinhua news agency,...
View ArticleHollywood poised for best-ever box-office year but movie attendance is flat
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Despite a string of summertime flops, Hollywood is expected to have a banner year at the domestic box office, coming in just shy of $11 billion, the largest annual take ever. But...
View ArticleCrude above US$100 a barrel as upbeat economic outlook seen lifting demand
Crude oil closed above US$100 a barrel Friday, the first time it has crossed that threshold since October.Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery rose 77 cents to close at $100.32...
View ArticleHollywood North Still Draws Films From Down South
In the old days, filmmakers flocked to Hollywood for its abundant sunshine, beautiful people and sandy beaches. But today a new filmmaking diaspora is spreading across the globe to places like...
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___Hollywood struggles against new film meccasLOS ANGELES (AP) — In the old days, filmmakers flocked to Hollywood for its abundant sunshine, beautiful people and sandy beaches. But today a new...
View ArticleManitoba's Crown-owned insurer says its investigators saved company $8 million
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Public Insurance says its investigations saved ratepayers $8 million last year, and it has released a list of the top frauds they uncovered in 2013.The Crown-owned insurance company...
View ArticleAcademics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
Signs of the energy business are inescapable in and around Houston — the pipelines, refineries and tankers that crowd the harbor, and the gleaming office towers where oil companies and energy traders...
View ArticleThe Politics Of Cheese: You May Pay More For Delivery Pizza In 2014
Unbeknownst to most Canadians, there’s been a quiet war brewing in this country over the price of pizza cheese. On one side, Pizza Pizza Ltd.; on the other, 12,500 very angry dairy farmers. Under...
View ArticleBrick Refuses To Honour Online Christmas Shopping Glitch
Canadian furniture giant The Brick said an online glitch that accidently gave some customers an additional 50 per cent off will not be honoured. In a Facebook message published Thursday, the company...
View ArticleManhattan Apartment Sales Reach Highest Level In 25 Years
Jan 3 (Reuters) - Sales volumes of Manhattan apartments jumped 30 percent in the fourth quarter, a report on Friday showed, as buyers put aside concerns about the strength of the overall economy and...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Omits Gay Wedding Scene From Ad In Ireland (VIDEO)
Coca-Coca included a gay wedding in its new ad, but perhaps it got cold feet: The soda giant omitted the scene in a version for Ireland. The "Reasons To Believe" spot seen in the Netherlands, Norway...
View ArticleFacebook Lawsuit Alleges Site 'Reading Its Users' Personal Messages'
A class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook says the social network “systematically violated consumers’ privacy by reading its users’ personal, private Facebook messages without their consent.” The...
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