Kinder Morgan Doesn't Need City's Permission To Access Burnaby Mountain: NEB
VANCOUVER - The National Energy Board has sided with Kinder Morgan in a dispute with the City of Burnaby over access to Burnaby Mountain.The company can proceed with necessary studies of its preferred...
View ArticleSinger Ray J pleads not guilty to sexual battery, resisting arrest in Beverly...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Singer Ray J has pleaded not guilty to groping a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel bar and resisting arrest afterward.Los Angeles County prosecutors say Ray J — whose legal name is...
View ArticleBean Bag Chairs Recalled After Children Suffocate:
NEW YORK — About 2.2 million bean bag chairs are being recalled after two children opened them, crawled inside and suffocated to death. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says the zippers on...
View ArticleBean Bag Chairs Recalled After Children Suffocate
NEW YORK — About 2.2 million bean bag chairs are being recalled after two children opened them, crawled inside and suffocated to death. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says the zippers on...
View ArticleCanada's inflation rate lower in July at 2.1 per cent, down from June
OTTAWA - Tame inflation, but robust retail sales sent conflicting signals Friday about the Canadian economy, economists say.Statistics Canada said the rise in the cost of living was tempered in July,...
View ArticleRoyal Bank Q3 profit rises to $2.4 billion, most units post record results
TORONTO - Canada's largest bank reported a record third-quarter profit that beat analyst expectations Friday, boosted by strong performance from its Canadian retail banking, capital markets, wealth...
View ArticleTSX slips amid solid RBC results, remarks by Yellen at Fed conference
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market was lower Friday morning as U.S. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen offered no signal that she’s altered her view that the economy still needs Fed support from...
View ArticleThe Queen Is Aging Angrily, According To Canadian Money
Canadians are well used to seeing the Queen featured on their money, but when was the last time you stopped to take a good hard look at how she's aging? Reddit user grahamblack posted this image to the...
View ArticleCascade Aerospace's striking workers vote in favour of 4-yr pact, return Monday
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Unionized workers at Cascade Aerospace will return to work on Monday after voting to accept a new four-year contract that contains wage increases and improved job security clauses,...
View ArticleWant to Solve Our Underemployment Problem? Talk About it
Any leader will tell you, you can't be effective without knowing what people are concerned about at any given time -- the issues that come up with family and friends, their anxieties, their desires of...
View ArticleAll This CRA Bickering Is Distracting Charities From Their Real Work
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue says that it is "absolutely shameful" to suggest that Canada Revenue Agency officials auditing charities could "somehow fall under...
View ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio In Fort McMurray To Research Oil Sands Documentary
Oscar-nominated star Leonardo DiCaprio is in Fort McMurray to research a documentary about the oil sands, according to several media reports. "He wanted to hear about and see — first-hand — the...
View Article7 Real Questions That Americans Have About Canada (PHOTOS)
Canada and the United States don't seem so different upon first glance. But an American on a six-week trip to Canada recently posted a series of observations on Reddit about what's different in the...
View ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio visits Alberta oilsands to research documentary
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is the latest celebrity to visit Alberta's oilsands.Sources involved with the visit say DiCaprio is doing research for an environmental documentary.The...
View Article25 Brand Names That Have Become Common Words
Runny nose? Let me get a Kleenex for you. Scraped your knee? Let's apply a Band-Aid. Dry, cracked lips again? Well, I have some Vaseline. You may not even notice how often you use trademark products in...
View ArticleObama offers new birth control accommodations to nonprofits, some for-profits...
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will offer a new accommodation to religious nonprofits that object to covering birth control for their employees. The measure allows those groups to notify the...
View ArticleSaskatoon Berry Or Juneberry? A Super-Food War Is Brewing Between Canada And...
What's in a name? Well, if it's the name of an ascendant super-berry proclaimed as the next goji açaí big deal then it could be around $10 billion. That's how much some predict the next super-berry...
View ArticleOregon sues Oracle Corp. over state's troubled Cover Oregon health insurance...
SALEM, Ore. - The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday against Oracle Corp. and several of its executives over the technology company's role in creating the troubled website for the state's online...
View ArticleDead floppy drive: Kenyan company recycles global e-waste; lawmakers debate...
MACHAKOS, Kenya - In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts. This assembly line is not assembling, though....
View ArticleFind Out Why Business Isn't 'All Work, No Play' Any More (VIDEO)
According to Mitchell Osak, managing director of Quanta Consulting, businesses that play games are thriving in today's connected digital landscape. Gamification, he says, is changing the face of...
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