Canadian Brands We Miss The Most
Canadian retailers — and therefore Canadian brands — are in trouble. Faced with intense competition from the globalization of retail and the shift to online shopping, chains like Bata, Jacob and...
View ArticlePick-and-Pay Cable Would Mean Changes To Local TV Funding, Say Bell, Rogers
Two of Canada's biggest telecommunications companies, Bell and Rogers, are clashing over the future of local television and who should pay for it. In its submissions to the CRTC, Bell said it believes...
View ArticleCruise ship leaves Seattle after return following boiler room fire; company...
SEATTLE - A cruise ship that returned to Seattle after a fire in its boiler room left the port again on Sunday morning.Holland America says no one was injured in the fire and the Coast Guard has...
View ArticleCanada Job Grant Won't Be In Place July 1 In Most Provinces
Most if not all of the provinces and territories will fail to deliver the federal government's controversial Canada Job Grant in time for Canada Day, despite a three-month extension given to them to...
View ArticleStock markets opt for caution ahead of U.S. economic data, corporate earnings
The Toronto stock market will likely start the week off little changed as traders look for reassurance that the American economy's sharp first-quarter contraction was a blip due to severe weather and...
View ArticleStephen Harper's Free Trade Record Could Fall Short Of High Expectations
OTTAWA - The Harper government's vaunted free trade agenda is either a roaring success or hopelessly stalled — and given that government officials aren't commenting, even experts in the field are...
View ArticleSale of Clippers to hinge on technicalities of trust law not Sterling's...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers will hinge on the technicalities of family trust law and whether Donald Sterling's estranged wife had the right to unilaterally...
View ArticleTim Hortons Prepares To Launch Credit Card Partnership With CIBC
TORONTO - With the press of a button, Tim Hortons (TSX:THI) is hoping Canadians will warm to a new credit card partnership.The coffee and doughnut chain has joined CIBC (TSX:CM) for the "Double Double...
View ArticleRoyal Canadian Mint To Create Big Collectors' Coin
OTTAWA - Having dumped the lowly penny, the Royal Canadian Mint is planning to create two high-value coins that won't appear in any change handed out at the local Tim Hortons.A recent cabinet order...
View ArticleUS auto sales at fastest pace in 8 years in June; GM, Toyota and Nissan all...
DETROIT - U.S. auto sales grew at the fastest pace in eight years in June, surprising the industry and setting it up for a strong second half of the year.Sales rose 1.2 per cent over last June to 1.4...
View ArticleSpam maker Hormel bulks up by buying Muscle Milk maker CytoSport for $450M
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The maker of Spam is bulking up on its protein with Muscle Milk.Hormel Foods is paying $450 million to acquire CytoSport, which owns Muscle Milk sports nutrition drinks, bars and...
View ArticleUS construction spending edges up 0.1 per cent in May despite decline in home...
WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending barely increased in May as gains in spending on non-residential projects such as office buildings and public construction were largely offset by a big drop in...
View ArticleSurvey: US factories expanded in June, but pace slowed from May; production...
WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturing grew in June for the 13th straight month. But the pace of the expansion slowed from May.The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its manufacturing index...
View ArticleThe Most Exciting U.S. Brands Coming To Canada
It's Canada Day, the perfect time to reflect on a wishlist of U.S. brands we'd like to welcome north of the border. Right? The arrival of Target and Marshalls hardly signify the end of the U.S. retail...
View ArticleFollowing Long Ban, U.S. Could Dominate Global Light Oil Supply
After decades of isolation, the United States is set to become a major player in the global trade of ultra light oil as recent government export approvals attract interest across the world. Following...
View ArticleFederal regulators accuse T-Mobile of billing customers hundreds of millions...
WASHINGTON - T-Mobile US knowingly made hundreds of millions of dollars off its customers in potentially bogus charges, federal regulators alleged Tuesday in the first lawsuit of its kind against a...
View ArticleCzar Cheeseburger Replaces Big Mac After McDonald's Crimea Exit
Where Crimeans used to chomp down on Big Macs, they will soon be able to order a Czar Cheeseburger as Russian chain Rusburger opens in a former McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) outlet in the annexed peninsula....
View ArticleRetirement? Barbara Walters still at the centre of things at ABC
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Barbara Walters isn't forgotten, and isn't gone.Less than two months after stepping away from a regular role on television, Walters returned last week to conduct an interview with the...
View ArticleStocks climb to record levels as manufacturing expands in the US and China;...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Evidence that global manufacturing is expanding pushed the stock market to an all-time high on Tuesday.The Dow Jones industrial average climbed within two points of 17,000 for the...
View Article1 dead, 5 others injured after chemical explosion at General Motors plant in...
MARION, Ind. - A chemical explosion Tuesday at a General Motors metal-stamping plant in Indiana killed a contractor and injured five other people, authorities said.The blast killed James L. Gibson, 48,...
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