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Chinese Signs In Richmond Remain Hot Button Issue Ahead Of Election
Two municipal candidates in Richmond, B.C. are promising to tackle the city's controversial Chinese-language signs. Carol Day and Michael Wolfe, city council candidates with the RITE Richmond party,...
View ArticleCanada Post's Move To End Home Delivery Spurs Legal Challenge
OTTAWA - Seniors' groups and organizations for people with disabilities are joining the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in a planned legal challenge to preserve home mail delivery.Canada Post wants to...
View ArticleStrategic Oil And Gas's Request To Keep Spill Confidential Denied
An oil and gas company's request to keep information about a spill confidential has been turned down. Strategic Oil and Gas says the August 14 spill was minor and caused no environmental damage.
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Should Children Inherit Parents' LinkedIn Accounts?
Recently, it dawned on me that LinkedIn (and possibly other social networks) might consider allowing their members children to inherit their parents' accounts. Why? As Porter Gale once stated, "Your...
View ArticleTop 15 SUVs Of 2015
Motor Trend has announced the results of its 2015 SUV of the Year competition, and from a field that included some of our own personal favourites like the new Porsche Macan, Cadillac Escalade, Subaru...
View ArticleMark Carney Slams Bankers, Warns Most Of World's Oil Can't Be Burned
The banking executives at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis “got away without sanction” and that has to change, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney says. Speaking in Washington recently, the...
View ArticleTSX Soars As Bargain-Hunters Descend On Market That Fell 12% From Peak
TORONTO - Bargain hunters descended on the Toronto stock market for a second day Friday as traders bought up stocks badly beaten down over the course of a string of market jolts and amid speculation...
View ArticleFord's Spooky Car Wash Is Hella Funny Halloween Prank
Nothing says happy Halloween quite like terrifying the crap out of some friends with an awesome yet frightening prank. That's exactly what the scary folks at Ford set out to do with their spooky car...
View ArticleHas Canada Lost That Latin Feeling?
It's happening to emerging markets everywhere. Slower growth seems to have taken hold of the world's ascendant economies. The reasons for decline are manifold: sluggish developed-world growth; internal...
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Etihad Airways' Butlers To Serve Jetsetters Aboard Its Three-Room Apartments
The race between airlines to attract the world’s richest flyers just got kicked up a notch. We’ve heard about flying bedrooms and entertainment centres right at your chair. But Etihad Airways of the...
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Container Ship Adrift Off B.C. North Coast
A 135-metre container ship carrying bunker and diesel fuel has lost power off the west coast of B.C.'s Haida Gwaii. The Council of Haida Nations issued an emergency alert on Friday morning about the...
View ArticleHow Much "Free" Health Care Really Costs Canadians
"Don't touch my free health care," is a common refrain from defenders of the status quo whenever anyone broaches the topic of reforming Canada's health-care system. While politicians and interest...
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Coast Guard Tows Powerless Russian Ship Off Haida Gwaii
OLD MASSETT, B.C. - Canadian Coast Guard officials secured a towline to a Russian container ship carrying hundreds of tons of fuel as it drifted without power in rough seas off British Columbia's...
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Halloween Costumes Are Sexualizing Our Youngest Trick-Or-Treaters
My four-year-old wants to be a firefighter for Halloween. She also wants to be Elsa and a strawberry, but let's focus on firefighter. In search of the perfect costume, we went to Value Village: "Your...
View ArticleHow Small Businesses Affect the Future of Sustainable Sourcing
With Small Business Week taking place October 19-25, much attention will be focused on the role of Canada's small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up 99.9 per cent of our country's 1.1...
View Article'Easy Rider' chopper going to auction in California, but it might not be the...
CALABASAS, Calif. - The customized Captain America chopper Peter Fonda rode in "Easy Rider" is up for auction this weekend in California.Or is it?Gordon Granger of Texas says he bought the original...
View ArticleBig gain in industrial stocks pushes US indexes sharply higher the end of a...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - U.S. stock indexes are closing out a wild week with a big gain.Industrial stocks like Textron and General Electric led the charge higher Friday after reporting strong earnings.The Dow...
View ArticleWiretaps Allowed In Gas Price Fixing Lawsuit
The Supreme Court of Canada has allowed wiretap recordings from a criminal case to be used in a civil suit against a group of Quebec gas stations accused of price-fixing in the 2000s. The justices...
View ArticleCanada-U.S. Border Delays Can Be Solved By Hackathon Problem Solving: Businesses
WASHINGTON - Frustrated by costly delays at the Canada-U.S. border, the business community is urging governments to seek solutions from private-sector whiz kids.The national governments are being...
View ArticleStock Market Selloff: Investors Try To Gauge Depth Of Downturn
TORONTO - Stock markets are likely in for more volatility this week as traders wonder if sharp gains at the end of last week signal an end to what would be a relatively mild retracement — defined as a...
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