TORONTO – Canada’s trucking industry wants the federal government and the U.S. to exempt their workers from forthcoming vaccination mandates, but health experts say the proposal is problematic. The Canadian Trucking Alliance is arguing that if the government sticks to its current plan requiring all truckers crossing into Canada to be […]
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Apple is on the verge of yet another major milestone. The iPhone maker is close to topping a market value of more than US$3 trillion — the first publicly traded company ever to be worth that much. Shares of Apple were up about 1 per cent in premarket trading Monday to around US$181.75. […]
Time magazine has named CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk as Person of the Year. “Person of the Year is a marker of influence, and few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth too,” Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote. “In 2021, Musk emerged […]
TORONTO — The real estate market in Canada has been red hot in 2021 and homes are becoming increasingly expensive for prospective buyers. While the data from November is expected in the coming days, the Canadian Real Estate Association reported last month that the average residential home price rose to $716,585 in October, up 18.2 […]
MONTREAL – For much of the past 21 months, Rami Aroosi has struggled to procure enough bikes to fill the racks of his downtown Ottawa cycle shop. Shipping rates have skyrocketed amid a backed-up global supply chain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing up prices. And the absence of just one part in […]
TORONTO – When delivery requests from British Columbia’s Lower Mainland flow into cannabis retailer Dutch Love, a reliable number of them come from customers in the suburbs of Surrey and Richmond. The company can deliver its goods to those communities, but can’t physically open a store there due to local bylaws that prevent […]
A man who slipped down the stairs and broke his back while walking from his bed to home office can file a claim on his employer’s insurance after a court in Germany ruled that he was commuting at the time. The ruling by Germany’s federal social court came after two lower courts disagreed […]
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – Potato farmers in Prince Edward Island are getting financial assistance from the province nearly three weeks after shipments to the United States were suspended after the discovery of fungal potato wart. Economic Growth Minister Matthew MacKay says the provincial government is launching the Potato Financing Program, which will make fixed […]
Warning: This article contains spoilers about the first episode of “And Just Like That …” Peloton stock was driven further downward on Friday following the reboot of “Sex and the City,” which featured a dramatic scene involving the fitness company’s exercise bike. Shares hit a 52-week low down to US$37.67 during trading […]
TORONTO – Law firm Koskie Minsky LLP says Daimler AG and North American Mercedes-Benz subsidiaries have agreed to pay $243 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with the owners of 83,000 diesel vehicles in Canada. The settlement, covering Mercedes-Benz model years between 2009 and 2016, includes the automaker repairing qualifying vehicles to provide […]