A consortium comprising French, South Korean and Chinese companies has won a contract for a liquefied natural gas project in Canada, the French partner Technip said on Wednesday.
TORONTO – A new report suggests nearly half of Canadian homeowners intend to buy a property in the next five years, despite a cooling off in the housing market.
The BMO Housing Confidence Report says the 48 per cent figure is mostly unchanged...
In 1990, in Canada’s capital, if you drove along Bank Street toward the parliament buildings at a particular time in the day, there was a good chance you’d find a blond grimacing teenager walking back and forth yelling. At nothing. He had smoked...
While Amazon Cloud Drive has been on quite the world tour as of late, Canadians have had to watch as seemingly everyone else gets the storage service first. Thankfully, Canucks can now do more than just twiddle their thumbs now that Cloud Drive has...
Nazem Kadri is one Leaf who made great strides this season (Kevin Hoffman-US PRESSWIRE)
It’s now been a week since the lockout shortened 2013 season ended in heartbreaking fashion for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
For a club that was among the youngest...
MONTREAL – Three years of negotiations between Resolute Forest Products and environmental groups aimed at protecting Canada’s boreal forest have ended in failure, with talks breaking down over how much land to set aside for...
OTTAWA – The head of Canada’s financial watchdog is not going to serve a second term.
Julie Dickson, head of the Office of Superintendent for Financial Institutions, will finish her term on July 4, 2014.
She took over the job in July...
WASHINGTON – David Jacobson is leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to Canada in July to become vice-chairman of one of Canada’s largest banking groups.
Jacobson, 61, is joining BMO Financial Group (TSX:BMO) in October. He’ll be...
TORONTO – Kobo and Kindle have grown to become familiar brands in Canada but ebook sales now appear to plateauing, suggests a report by the industry organization BookNet Canada.
Based on surveys with 4,000 book-buying consumers, BookNet Canada...
TORONTO – Canaccord Financial Inc. (TSX:CF) said Tuesday that it earned $6.4 million in its latest quarter as revenue increased 23 per cent compared with a year ago.
The investment firm said the profit amounted to four cents per diluted share...
TORONTO – The Canadian dollar closed at 97.39 cents U-S, up 22-100ths from Friday’s close.
The S-and-P/T-S-X composite index climbed 129.38 points to 12,742.23.
Volume at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time was 416.93 (m) million shares.
The Dow...
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Merck Announces $5 Billion Accelerated Share Repurchase
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merck (NYS: MRK) , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced...
"... in which a vastly outgunned band of 750 young Jews held off German soldiers for more than a month with crude arms and Molotov cocktails, died on May 9 in Montreal. He was 93."
“We didn’t have enough weapons, we didn’t have enough...
Brinker International (EAT +0.4%) announces the acquisition of 11 Chili's restaurants in Canada from one its franchise partners. The transaction is expected to close next month. Post your comment!
TORONTO – The Canadian dollar was ahead Tuesday as traders awaited a key statement from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke later this week.
The loonie was up 0.11 of a cent to 97.28 cents US.
Bernanke will speak about the central...
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SQI Diagnostics Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
Significant Interest Generated in Diagnostic Tools and Services Business from Large Pharma
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MavenSay, a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans, as a result.
The company’s Toronto-based co-founder,...
HONOLULU, Hawaii – Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year’s meeting in Hawaii...
Did Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, Canada, smoke crack cocaine on a video? Gawker says yes and wants to crowd-source $200,000 to purchase and post the incriminating footage online.
Latest numbers of the Canadian market share reveal that BlackBerry’s market share in the country has more than doubled to 13.5%. Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It Original content from Ubergizmo.
