Starting Monday, B.C. businesses will foot the bill for recycling costs
VANCOUVER - The B.C. government's controversial new recycling program goes into effect Monday, irking some business owners who say that additional costs will hurt their bottom line.The new regulations...
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Sony Picture ImageWorks Moves Head Office To Vancouver
Vancouver is cementing its place as a leading visual effects hub with news that Sony Picture Imageworks is moving its headquarters from California to the city's downtown core. The Oscar-winning...
View ArticleCSeries test fleet grounded after engine 'incident' during ground testing
MONTREAL - Bombardier's CSeries test flight program has been grounded following what the company called "an engine-related incident" with one of the aircraft during maintenance testing on the ground.A...
View ArticleDog Poop On Plane Prompts Emergency Landing For US Airways Flight
And you thought your last flight was crappy. Passengers aboard US Airways flight 598 weren't expecting an emergency landing in Kansas City, Missouri on Wednesday but then again, they probably weren't...
View ArticleCrude oil falls below US$103 barrel; down 1.6% for the week on amble supplies
The price of oil fell below US$103 per barrel Friday on ample supplies of crude and fuels.Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for July delivery fell 87 cents to close at US$102.71 a barrel on the...
View ArticleCaisse to focus on three Quebec hotels after selling Toronto, Vancouver...
MONTREAL - Quebec's pension fund manager is largely getting out of the hotel business, announcing Friday that it is selling all of its locations except for three luxury hotels in its home...
View ArticleCanadian-funded bridge project wins a battle in a U.S. courtroom
WASHINGTON - The Canadian government has won a U.S. court fight that's part of a longer, drawn-out battle to build a new international bridge.The Washington, D.C., District Court announced Friday that...
View ArticleFacebook Lawsuit By Vancouver Woman Gets Go-Ahead
VANCOUVER - Social-media giant Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit that has been launched by a Vancouver woman over one of the firm's advertising products.B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin...
View ArticleMickelson says he's co-operating in insider trading investigation involving...
DUBLIN, Ohio - Hall of Fame golfer Phil Mickelson confirmed that FBI agents investigating insider trading approached him this week at the Memorial Tournament. The five-time major champion said Saturday...
View ArticleBuzzBuzzHome: Do You Make Enough To Buy A Home In Your City?
BuzzBuzzHome: Earlier this year, RBC Economics released their housing affordability report for the last quarter of 2013. Affordability saw a modest improvement in the last days of the year, but the...
View ArticleTraders to focus on central banks, heavy slate of economic data this week
TORONTO - Central banks will be the focus of investors this week as markets look to see what the Bank of Canada plans to do about hiking interest rates down the road.On one level, there is no mystery...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Licence Applications Pile Up At Health Canada
OTTAWA - There's no business like grow business.Health Canada is struggling to process a mountain of applications for licences to grow medical marijuana as the country experiences a "greenrush" of...
View ArticleMark Carney Slams 'Market Fundamentalism' At Inclusive Capitalism Conference
Free-market “radicalism” has taken control of the world’s economies, spurring greater inequality and threatening the legitimacy of capitalism itself, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned this...
View ArticleJust the books, please: Public shrugs off Amazon-Hachette spat at BookExpo
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Publishers and the public met this weekend at BookExpo America, the annual industry convention, and seemed to speak in different languages.If you were part of the book business,...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Inquirer co-owner among 7 killed in fiery Massachusetts plane crash
BEDFORD, Mass. - Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz was killed along with six other people in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, just days after reaching a deal that many hoped would end...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie and 'Maleficent' spook box office with $70 million debut
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The biggest box-office debut of Angelina Jolie's career propelled Disney's twisted fairy tale "Maleficent" to a scary-good $70 million opening.The PG-rated fantasy beat forecasts to...
View Article'Breaking Bad' is most tweeted-about series on television
NEW YORK, N.Y. - AMC's "Breaking Bad" is the champion of a new television metric: more second-screen activity on Twitter than any other TV series this past season.The Nielsen company, for the first...
View ArticleNine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor to remain with Beats By Dre following $3B deal...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Trent Reznor and officials at Beats By Dre agree: Reznor is still with the company.Reznor tweeted Monday afternoon that he remains the company's chief creative officer. Apple Inc....
View ArticleElement Financial to buy PHH Arval fleet management business for US$1.4-billion
TORONTO - Element Financial Corp. (TSX:EFN) will pay US$1.4 billion cash to buy PHH Corp.'s North American fleet management services business under a deal announced Monday.PHH Arval had about US$4.6...
View ArticleAlberta Oilsands Worker Injured On-Site, Dies In Hospital
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A man has died while working on a giant bulldozer in Alberta's oilsands.The provincial government says the 37-year-old was doing maintenance work on the machine at a Suncor...
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