Degrassi Junior High For Sale: Iconic Toronto Locale Draws Little Interest
The Toronto school where Joey Jeremiah jammed with the Zit Remedy and where Spike controversially carried a child out of wedlock is for sale. The building that once housed Vincent Massey Public School,...
View ArticleKickstarter Canada's First 3 Months: The Funded, The Funding, And The Fallen
Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website that has served as a platform for thousands of projects to date, just celebrated three months of operation in Canada, and by all accounts its expansion north of...
View ArticleThe Regulation of E-Cigarettes: Trying to Fit a Square Peg Into a Round Hole?
Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) have been making big news lately. It seems many of our favourite celebs are making the switch from traditional cigarettes to the less-stinky alternative, and...
View ArticleMortgage servicer Ocwen reducing balances by $2B in deal with US gov't and 49...
WASHINGTON - Ocwen Financial Corp. will reduce struggling borrowers' loan balances by $2 billion in an agreement with federal regulators and 49 states over foreclosure abuses.The Consumer Financial...
View ArticleObama: Agreement on Iran's nuclear program is working, Congress should...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is urging Congress to resist new sanctions against Iran because current agreements have a good chance to rein in that country's nuclear ambitions.Obama told...
View ArticleYear In Review 2013: B.C.'s Dumbest Stories
A lot of people in British Columbia might like to forget that 2013 ever happened. Throughout the year, we learned about some hilarious and embarrassing pratfalls by politicians, prominent...
View ArticleBlackBerry Sells Buildings Amid Massive Losses
BlackBerry just made a massive sale —not of its phones but of its real estate. The troubled tech company sold five of the buildings in its Waterloo-based complex to its neighbour, the University of...
View ArticleEvan Siddall, Ex-Goldman Sachs Banker, Named CEO Of CMHC
TORONTO - Former investment banker Evan Siddall has been appointed the new president and chief executive officer of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.Siddall, who was most recently a special...
View ArticleTelus Reconnects Family To Make An Ad That Gives Us The Feels (VIDEO)
'Tis the season of holiday hugs and viral Christmas videos, so one Canadian telecom aimed high to make both happen in a new campaign. Joyce, an Ontario grandmother, hasn’t seen her grandson Shaun in...
View ArticleCSIS' Unapproved Foreign Spies Put Canadians Abroad At Risk: Judge
TORONTO - Canada's spy agency deliberately withheld information from the courts in an effort to do an end-run around the law when it applied for top-secret warrants to intercept the communications of...
View ArticleOil rises near US$100 a barrel as US economy shows surprising strength
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The price of oil edged closer to US$100 a barrel Friday after the U.S. government said the economy grew at a faster rate in the third quarter than originally estimated.Benchmark West...
View ArticleObama puts a rosy spin on a difficult presidential year, sees better coming...
WASHINGTON - Putting a rosy spin on a difficult year, President Barack Obama acknowledged frustrating "ups and downs" on Friday but exulted that the improving economy is creating new jobs and claimed...
View ArticleLawsuit filed in Washington state claims Teck toxins caused disease
VANCOUVER - A Washington state woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B), claiming toxic pollutants from the company's smelter in southeastern British Columbia are to...
View ArticleFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reap $2.3 billion in secondary stock offering...
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has priced a secondary offering of its stock at $55.05 a share in a deal that will generate a $2.3 billion windfall for CEO Mark Zuckerberg.The terms announced Friday are just...
View ArticleB.C. Isn't Properly Prepared For A Bitumen Spill
For some time now, the Kinder Morgan pipeline has delivered diluted bitumen (dilbit) to Burnaby. From there, it is loaded onto oil tankers and sent east through the Salish Sea. The B.C. government...
View Article2013's Top 10 Stories for B.C. Small Businesses
Over the last 12 months in B.C., those of us at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) have seen several positive developments for small business, as well as some emerging problems....
View ArticleNorthern Gateway Pipeline: Alberta Critics Concerned About Jobs, First...
A flurry of criticism has emerged in Alberta after a federal review panel recommended approval for the Northern Gateway pipeline on Thursday. Critics say the proposed Enbridge pipeline, which would...
View ArticleFormer executive charged with murder in NH crash that killed couple, unborn...
CONCORD, N.H. - A former Fortune 500 executive was charged Friday with second-degree murder in a crash that killed a young Vermont couple expecting their first child in January.Attorney General Joseph...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Chip Wilson Left Lululemon
It seems like not a day goes by without a Lululemon Athletica headline in national media. Whether or not you buy into the thinking that any press is good press, you have to admit that the recent...
View ArticlePot Price Concerns Raised As Medical Marijuana Market Readies To Expand
CLEARVIEW TOWNSHIP, Ont. - Mark Gobuty isn't raising cattle or cultivating corn on his farm north of Toronto — he's growing medical marijuana.His company, The Peace Naturals Project, is one of the...
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