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Toronto's 'Sky Park' Is The City's Answer To High Line Envy
Ever since New York opened its High Line Park, a railroad track converted to urban greenspace, cities around the world have looked with envy at New York’s overground playground. (If you haven’t been,...
View ArticleGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt Cops To Keeping A BlackBerry On The Side
TORONTO - Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt made a rare visit to Canada on Wednesday, to help announce a $1.5 million grant to support the educational charity Actua and speak at an event...
View ArticleStaples Shuts 15 Stores In Canada, Announces It After The Fact
The great Canadian retail shakeup continues, with Staples retroactively announcing on Wednesday it had shuttered 15 of its Canadian locations at the end of last month. The stores represent nearly 5 per...
View ArticleGermany Scraps Tuition Fees. Should Canada Follow?
Attention Canadian students: How is your German? If you’re tired of fretting about how to pay tuition as rates rise to record levels, you may want to consider making a move to Deutschland....
View ArticleFur Institute Of Canada Lobbied Tories Over RCMP Muskrat Hats Decision
OTTAWA - A national fur organization says it raised objections with federal cabinet ministers upon learning the RCMP planned to begin outfitting officers with tuques instead of muskrat hats.The Fur...
View ArticleTangerine Banking App To Add Biometric Security Features
TORONTO - Smartphone users who bank with Tangerine will soon find some new options on their mobile app, including voice recognition and fingerprint scanning.The Canadian bank, which operates without...
View ArticleFour Small Business Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Canada is a great place to start and grow a business. With innovative government programs, start-up incubators that nurture young businesses and a stable economy, small business owners across Canada...
View ArticleHow to Determine Who Pays for a Business Lunch
"I'll get that." You may say that too often, or not enough, when having a meal or cup of coffee with a business colleague or friend. The rules about when to pick up the tab or let your dining partner...
View ArticleVancouver's Jericho Lands Sold To B.C. First Nations, Crown Corporation
VANCOUVER - Three British Columbia First Nations have agreed to a partnership deal with a federal government body over three valuable parcels of land in Metro Vancouver.The agreement was signed...
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Breast Cam By Nestlé Fitness Reminds Us To Have A Screening (VIDEO)
How often do you have your breasts checked out? Nestlé Fitness is hammering home that question in a new ad promoting breast cancer screening as part of its Pink Ribbon campaign. In the ad, which was...
View ArticleTop 10 Toughest New Cars To Negotiate
Shopping for a new car doesn't have to be a stressful and frustrating experience. Here at Autoblog Canada, we're always working hard to provide car shopping tips and advice on things like the cheapest...
View ArticleCanadian CEOs Earn 206 Times As Much As The Average Worker
The gap between CEO earnings and workers’ pay is wider in Canada than almost anywhere else in the world, according to data from the AFL-CIO. The U.S. labour group’s database shows Canadian CEOs on...
View ArticleLotto-Winning Bombardier Employees Settle Dispute
A settlement has been reached between 24 winners of a $50-million Lotto Max jackpot and Christopher Bates, a man who claimed to be part of the winning lottery group. A group of mechanics and...
View ArticleRisk Of New Financial Crisis Growing, And Canada Is In Crosshairs
The world is facing a “poisonous combination” of low economic growth and low inflation that could cause another financial crisis, according to the latest Geneva Report on the World Economy. And the...
View ArticleSaskPower's Carbon Capture Project Draws Global Interest
ESTEVAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's power utility is heralding its carbon capture and storage project, touted as the world's first commercial-scale operation of its kind.SaskPower says more than 250 people...
View ArticleGoogle Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos
Marty Singer, a Los Angeles lawyer representing over a dozen female celebrities, is threatening to sue Google for $100 million US over nude photos leaked online from personal iCloud accounts. In a...
View ArticleGreenpeace's Hudema Takes Credit Without Offering Solutions
Has anyone noticed how deliriously happy Greenpeace's Mike Hudema sounds as he claims credit for the fact that two reputable global brands are revisiting billions of dollars in Canadian energy...
View ArticleWelcome to Social Commerce
Over a year ago, my business partners and I began an exhaustive discussion about the current state of shopping online, from the perspective of selling with our own e-commerce business, Our Paper Life...
View ArticleTemporary Foreign Workers Program Overhaul Criticized By B.C. Premier
VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has accused federal politicians of "tragically misdirected" policies over the issue of temporary foreign workers, as she pushes for the thousands of...
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Pretty Much Nobody Wants The 2022 Winter Olympic Games (PHOTOS)
The host city for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games might as well be decided with a coin toss. Oslo has withdrawn its bid to host the Games, leaving only Beijing and Almaty as candidate cities. The...
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