The Canadian PressAleksandra Sagan Shoppers at Sobeys Inc. grocery stores will soon need to bring their own totes or lug their purchases home in paper bags as the chain moves to phase out plastic bags by February 2020. Canadians go through hundreds of millions of single-use plastic bags at grocery […]
National Business
By Dan Healing The Canadian Press CALGARY — Three of Canada’s biggest oilsands producers are going directly to voters today to ask them to “influence the outcome” of big decisions concerning the oil and gas sector as a fall federal election looms. In full-page ads in about 30 English and […]
By Anne D’Innocenzio The Associated Press NEW YORK — It used to be considered the retailer’s crown jewel a large format store on a swank corridor that showed off the best of what a brand had to offer. But now the so-called flagship store is disappearing from high-profile shopping thoroughfares […]
The Canadian Press CALGARY — TC Energy Corp. says it is selling two Ontario natural gas-fired power plants and a 50 per cent interest in a third to a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation Inc. for about $2.87 billion. The deal through its wholly owned subsidiary, TransCanada Energy Ltd., includes […]
By Aleksandra Sagan The Canadian Press Shoppers at Sobeys Inc. grocery stores will soon need to bring their own totes or lug their purchases home in paper bags as the chain moves to phase out plastic bags by February 2020. Canadians go through hundreds of millions of single-use plastic bags […]
By Kevin Freking The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised on Friday to retaliate against France for adopting a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. He also managed to get in a shot at French wine. Trump, who doesn’t drink alcohol, tweeted: “I’ve always […]
By Bruce Schreiner The Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. — The company behind the world’s top-selling bourbon, Jim Beam, is pouring tens of millions of dollars into a new Kentucky distillery to boost production of craft whiskeys. Beam Suntory executives broke ground Thursday for the production facility at their flagship bourbon […]
The Associated PressRaf Casert Brussels is bracing for Boris and Brexit. Three decades ago, journalist Boris Johnson wrote stories for London’s Daily Telegraph playing up stereotypes about bumbling bureaucrats in the European Union wasting money and tying up U.K. businesses in red tape–articles the European officials deemed to be so […]
The Canadian Press The C.D. Howe Institute says negatives will outweigh the positives for all three parties to the new Canada-United States-Mexico free trade agreement but it will hit Mexico hardest and the U.S. the lightest. In a new analysis to be released Thursday, it says Canada’s real gross domestic […]
By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press The United States reclaimed its ranking in the top five countries in the world for economic innovation, while China climbed from 17th to 14th position in the new list of nearly 130 nations released Wednesday. The Global Innovation Index 2019 released by the […]
By Christopher Reynolds The Canadian Press MONTREAL — Crude-by-rail and container traffic drove Canadian National Railway Co. to its highest ever quarterly revenue and adjusted earnings per share, shoring up confidence in its EPS forecast of low double-digit growth for 2019. The country’s largest railroad operator saw revenues rise nine […]
The Canadian PressArmina Ligaya When the Bank of Nova Scotia looked to brainstorm new ways to close the gender gap, it turned to what it had been deploying in nearly every other facet of its business: technology. The Toronto-based lender analyzed a “myriad of data sets” for its Canadian employees […]
