Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Work safety strike, virus lockdown protest set for May Day
LOS ANGELES - Essential workers will strike nationwide on May Day to demand safer conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, while other groups plan rallies against tight stay-at-home orders they say...
May 01, 2020
C.D. Howe's Business Cycle Council says country has entered a recession
TORONTO - Canada has officially entered a recession due to the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the C.D. Howe Institute's Business Cycle Council declared Friday. The council, whic...
May 01, 2020
Apple pinched by pandemic; profit, iPhone sales decline
BERKELEY, Calif. - Apple's profit dipped slightly while revenues rose in the January-March quarter, reflecting early fallout from a coronavirus pandemic that shut down its factories and then forced hu...
Apr 30, 2020
Trump says US can never declare 'total victory' over virus
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he believes the U.S. can never declare "total victory" over the coronavirus because too many people have died. But he added that he will count it...
Apr 30, 2020
Johnson: UK 'past the peak' of outbreak but must be cautious
LONDON - Britain is past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday, as he promised to reveal a "road map" out of national lockdown - but not yet. Appearing at a ...
Apr 30, 2020
Budget officer says federal deficit could top $252 billion
OTTAWA - The federal deficit for the year could top $252.1 billion as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Parliament's budget watchdog predicted in a report that warned the figure could go even higher&...
Apr 30, 2020
Trump trade office adds Amazon to 'notorious markets' list
WASHINGTON - The United States for the first time added five of Amazon's overseas operations to its list of "notorious markets'' where pirated goods are sold. The e-commerce giant dismissed the move a...
Apr 29, 2020
More than half of Canadian companies seeing sales drop at least 20%: StatsCan
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reports nearly one-third of Canadian businesses who responded in a newly released survey have seen their revenues plummet by 40 per cent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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More than half of Canadian companies see sales drop at least 20%: StatCan
OTTAWA - Almost one-third of businesses could stay open if physical distancing rules remain in place for six months, but nearly as many suggest they won't survive that long, according to sur...
Apr 29, 2020
Nearly 10,000 businesses apply for wage subsidy in first hours, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Thousands of businesses have applied for the federal government's $73-billion wage subsidy program, joining a COVID-19 emergency economic plan that industry groups warn is becoming more ...
Apr 27, 2020
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On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...