Founding CEO of IIROC announces plan to retire from regulatory agency on Oct. 31
TORONTO - The president and chief executive of IIROC — one of the regulatory bodies that oversees Canada's securities markets — has announced she'll be retiring at the end of October.Susan Wolburgh...
View ArticleCanadian Natural Resources Pipeline Spills 70,000 Litres Of Oil, Water
SLAVE LAKE, Alta. - A pipeline owned by Canadian Natural Resources Limited has spilled 70,000 litres of oil and processed water northwest of Slave Lake, Alta.The Alberta Energy Regulator says the...
View ArticleGovernments, industry must get ready for reality of climate change, forum hears
VANCOUVER - Extreme weather events such as the flooding in Calgary and Toronto nearly kept the federal government from meeting its budget targets last year, says an insurance industry official.Barbara...
View ArticleVancouver Real Estate: Home Sales Pick Up From Year Ago, Board Says
VANCOUVER - Home sales in the Vancouver region picked up in March compared with a year ago, but were still well below the long-term average for the month, according to the city's real estate board.The...
View ArticleNEB approves 400 interveners approved for Trans Mountain pipeline review
VANCOUVER - The National Energy Board hearings into Kinder Morgan's proposed pipeline expansion through Alberta and British Columbia will begin in August and hear from more than a thousand people,...
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This Is Corporate Canada In 1 Map (PHOTO)
If corporations owned Canada's provinces and territories, how would you map it? Ryan Anderson has the answer. The Cranbrook, B.C.-raised co-founder of Dream to Learn, a San Francisco-based social...
View ArticleWealth Inequality Trumps Income Inequality In Canada: CCPA Report
OTTAWA - While politicians in Ottawa still can't decide who is in the middle class, a new analysis suggests wealth is increasingly gravitating to the very top.The report by the left-leaning Canadian...
View ArticleCanada Revenue Agency Fails To Make Filing Your Taxes Cool (VIDEO)
You have to admire the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) initiative in trying to make filing your taxes cool. But that doesn't mean we can't laugh uproariously at the attempt. (By the way, CRA — the kids...
View ArticleCeline Dion's Florida Mansion Has Price Chopped To A Mere, Insignificant...
Celine Dion appears to be having a hard time selling her palatial complex in Florida. The crooner put her 4.5-acre property on Jupiter Island — a wealthy enclave of 800 people north of Miami — on sale...
View ArticleToronto Home Prices Soar Nearly 8%, Vancouver Sales Also Up
TORONTO - The Toronto Real Estate Board says home sales for March totalled 8,081, up 7.2 per cent from a year ago.The increase came as the board also reported the average selling price for the month...
View ArticleCN Warns Of Breakdown As Grain Moves Through Overloaded System
The head of Canadian National Railway Co. is warning that the country’s grain terminals, elevators and ports cannot cope with the number of rail cars needed to fulfill a government order to move more...
View ArticleUnpaid Interns Dropped From Rogers-Owned Magazines
At least two Rogers-owned publications have dropped their internship programs, the Star has learned. In a pre-emptive move, interns at Flare and Chatelaine who were either unpaid or receiving a $400...
View ArticleRogers says NHL fans will benefit from wireless spectrum purchase
MONTREAL - Rogers Communications is betting consumers — especially NHL hockey fans — will be watching more video on their tablets and smartphones with its recent $3.3-billion purchase of wireless...
View ArticleHow To Live In Vancouver For Cheap
Housing in Vancouver? Expensive. Cost of living in Vancouver? Expensive. Or is it? A local couple is showing the world that it's possible to live a high-quality life without a huge price tag. Celestian...
View ArticleUS reaches $5.15B settlement with Anadarko Petroleum for cleanup of...
WASHINGTON - The federal government on Thursday reached a $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the largest ever for environmental contamination, to settle claims related to the...
View ArticleToo little known about underlying health of housing market: economist
OTTAWA - One of Canada's foremost experts on the housing trends and household debt says what we don't know about the market could hurt us.CIBC deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal argues in a new report...
View ArticleRichelieu Hardware sees profit rise on flat Canadian market, slow U.S. recovery
MONTREAL - Richelieu Hardware says it continues to prosper as a slowly improving U.S. home renovation market compensates for a stalled Canadian sector."Canada is rather flat all over the place," CEO...
View ArticleB.C. LNG Report Makes Workforce Recommendations
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has released a road map designed to attract and train the tens of thousands of workers that would be needed if the province realizes its dream of a booming...
View ArticleAP Investigation: US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' with front companies to...
WASHINGTON - In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan to build a social media project aimed at undermining Cuba's communist...
View ArticleCanada Losing Its Competitive Edge, TD Bank CEO Warns
CALGARY - The CEO of TD Bank expressed a bullish view of the U.S. economic recovery on Thursday, while warning that Canada risks losing its competitive edge if small and medium businesses don't export...
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