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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Trump campaign promises unlikely to harm entrepreneurship: Shopify CFO
Shopify Inc. executives brushed off concerns that incoming U.S. President Donald Trump will be a major detriment to many of the company's merchants. "There's nothing in what we've heard from Trump, no...
Nov 12, 2024
Deputy minister appointed interim CEO of AIMCo after Alberta government fires board
EDMONTON - Longtime Alberta bureaucrat Ray Gilmour has been appointed interim leader of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, the Crown agency set up to manage public pensions and investments...
Nov 08, 2024
Freeland rallies a united front ahead of Trump’s return to White House
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is getting the band back together, seeking to rally a united front and co-ordinate a plan to deal with threats posed by the incoming Donald Trump presi...
Nov 08, 2024
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for October, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in October. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, h...
Nov 08, 2024
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for October, by province
OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in October. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 1...
Nov 08, 2024
National employment numbers for October from Statistics Canada, at a glance
OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's October employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.5) Employment rate: 60.6 per cent (60.7) Participation ra...
Nov 08, 2024
What Trump's election could mean for interest rates in Canada
Experts say Donald Trump's election victory could shift interest rate policy in the U.S. as his promised policies risk higher inflation, which could ultimately have implications for Canadian rates and...
Nov 08, 2024
'More of the same': Jobless rate holds steady at 6.5% in October amid weak hiring
OTTAWA - The Canadian job market posted another weak hiring month in October as employers added a modest 15,000 jobs, but economists say the results aren't bad enough to spark concerns at the Bank of ...
Nov 08, 2024
Alberta government fires AIMCo board, citing rising costs and poor performance
EDMONTON - Alberta's finance minister has sacked the chief executive officer and entire board of directors of Alberta Investment Management Corp., the Crown corporation that manages pension and other ...
Nov 07, 2024
Business groups say Canada needs to plan differently for Trump's second term
OTTAWA - Donald Trump's mandate to get tough on trade is expected to be stronger in his second term as U.S. president, posing different challenges for Canada than his first four years in the White Hou...
Nov 07, 2024
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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...