Friday, March 29, 2024
A Canadian company that manufactures children's toy couches finds itself facing a stiff bill for import tariffs after bringing production home to this country.While Barumba Play is no longer importing a majority of its product, a single component...
A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation may be more of a threat than in the past few decades.In a...
Luxury parka maker Canada Goose says it is laying off 17 per cent of its global corporate workforce.CEO Dani Reiss wrote in a LinkedIn note Tuesday that the job cuts are meant to put the company in a better...
The Facebook poke is having a moment, thanks to a new generation discovering what some argue is the social media site's most annoying feature.There's been a 13-fold spike in poking on Facebook in the past month, the company...
A surge in new apartment construction drove housing start increases in some major Canadian cities last year, but demand continues to outweigh supply, according to a report released Wednesday by the federal housing agency.The report from Canada Mortgage and...
After spending big in a pre-election budget 12 months ago, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is now pulling a 180-degree turn to focus on saving as the theme of Thursday's budget, which was centred on penny-pinching and the need...
A new report says the federal government is providing billions of dollars in financial support for the fossil fuel industry, despite measures announced last year to limit certain types of subsidies for the oil and gas industry.The analysis,...
The cost of selling a home in the United States may be about to change dramatically.A real estate trade group has agreed to a landmark deal to drop what was once a cornerstone of the industry: the six per...
The Canadian economy grew 0.6 per cent in January, the fastest growth rate in a year, while the economy likely expanded 0.4 per cent in February, Statistics Canada said Thursday.The rate was higher than forecasted by economists, who were...
Four major Ontario school boards are taking some of the largest social media companies to court over their products, alleging the way they're designed has negatively rewired the way children think, behave and learn and disrupted the way schools operate.The public...

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