Filing Your Taxes Online Gets You Your Return Faster
The taxman continues to encourage taxpayers to file electronically to reduce costs and make the process more efficient. There was a time when a tax package would arrive in your mailbox at the beginning...
View ArticleSouth By Southwest: Secrets, surveillance, IBM's Watson helps chefs cook
AUSTIN, Texas - FOMO —or the fear of missing out— is a common complaint at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas each year.It's here, after all, that "Girls" creator Lena Dunham...
View ArticleMontreal Bus Shelter Warms Up When You Hold Hands (VIDEO)
Talk about an ingenious way to warm up a city! Duracell set up a bus shelter on Avenue Atwater in Montreal earlier this winter that heated up when commuters touched the sides and held hands. The...
View ArticleBrian Mulroney Leading Charge To Get Nordiques Back To Quebec City
QUEBEC - Ex-media baron Pierre Karl Peladeau may want to create a sovereign Quebec but a former Canadian prime minister is battling to get the province its second NHL team.Brian Mulroney has emerged as...
View ArticleHow can jet disappear? It's happened repeatedly at sea, where finding any...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is...
View ArticleGone phishing! Internet and social media scams rampant, says Competition Bureau
OTTAWA - Canada's competition watchdog is warning Canadians to be ever watchful for online scams that try to take advantage of the uninformed and the soft-hearted.The Competition Bureau says scammers...
View ArticleEurope wants its Parmesan back, seeks to prevent US, other countries from...
WASHINGTON - Would Parmesan by any other name be as tasty atop your pasta? A ripening trade battle might put that to the test.As part of trade talks, the European Union wants to ban the use of European...
View ArticleInterpol to allow 2 airlines to check passports against its database of...
LYON, France - Interpol is allowing two airlines to check passenger passports against its vast database of lost and stolen travel documents — in a test project aimed to let private sector companies...
View ArticleNew 'no-contest' policy to speed investigations: securities regulator
TORONTO - Ontario's top securities regulator is making changes to its enforcement policies, including allowing some of those accused of wrongdoing to plead no contest and pay a fine.The Ontario...
View ArticlePeleadeau Upsets Mayors Worried Over Separatist Ownership Of Newspapers
OTTAWA - The mayor of Portage la Prairie, Man., is not happy that his local community newspaper is owned by a media magnate who wants to break up the country."It's a damn shame that the guy's chosen to...
View ArticleHere Are The Newspapers Owned By Pierre-Karl Peladeau's Quebecor Media Inc.
OTTAWA - A list of newspapers controlled by Quebecor Media Inc., whose majority owner Pierre Karl Peladeau this week announced he was stepping down to run for the separatist Parti Quebecois but would...
View ArticleStrong debut for ABC's drama 'Resurrection'; Fox's 'American Idol' keeps...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Those repeated ads about a dead boy returning to his father after 32 years struck a nerve with television viewers, who proved curious enough to check out the debut of ABC's new drama...
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'The Dorothies,' Vancouver Heritage Homes, Saved
The Dorothies get to stay in Kansas after all. The two Vancouver heritage homes were facing the fate of the Wicked Witch of the West back in October, but a local developer recently announced that they...
View ArticleSouth Korean, European Trade Deals Prove Harper Can Land The Big One
OTTAWA - No one will ever again accuse Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his trade minister of not being able to land the big one.After years of hooking minnows like Honduras, Panama and Jordan, Ottawa...
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Canadians Doubtful Of Some Core Pro-Business Policies: Poll
Canada’s baby boomers and their children see almost eye-to-eye when it comes to the country’s economic direction, and both groups are worried that some pro-business policies of the past several decades...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Deal With Workplace Bullies
I treat a lot of people who are managing stress. Busy careers, kids, parents, goals -- they are all balls in the air that require your attention. The balls are plentiful and important. As I explore the...
View ArticleHealth care sign-ups steady in February, but Obama may miss scaled-down goal...
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Tuesday it's making steady progress on health care sign-ups, but the White House needs something close to a miracle to meet its goal of enrolling 6 million...
View ArticleWhat The Heck Is A Bitcoin?
There were three main impulses that drove me to create the world's first university-based Bitcoin student club at Simon Fraser University. When I first got into Bitcoin in early 2011, it took me many...
View ArticleOil falls near US$100 a barrel; analysts predict a rise in US stockpiles
The price of oil dropped near US$100 a barrel Tuesday on expectations that U.S. oil supplies rose last week.Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery dropped $1.09 to close at...
View ArticleSouth By Southwest: 3D-printed food, bitcoins and blockbuster video game...
AUSTIN, Texas - Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas,...
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