TORONTO — Bell Media has set the stage to acquire a majority stake in Pinewood Toronto Studios, which has been used to film “Star Trek Discovery” and “The Expanse.” The complex includes 11 purpose-built stages, offices, teaching facilities and a variety of support services for film and television clients. Financial terms weren’t announced by Bell […]
LONDON — Britain’s exit from the European Union has been likened to putting toothpaste back in the tube. But it’s more like trying to separate the fluoride from the paste: complicated and messy. Thursday marks 365 days until Britain officially leaves the EU. The March 29, 2019, departure will end a 46-year marriage that has […]
Molori Energy Inc. (TSX.V: MOL) is one of this year’s Venture 50 companies — the company’s strategy has been to engage in low-risk well reactivations in the Texas Panhandle to generate steady cash flows. Molori Energy is an oil and gas production company with operations in Texas and is engaged in acquiring properties that provide […]
Martin Masse: The best way to preserve Canada’s strong wireless networks is not to encourage artificial competition by giving privileges to resellers who do not invest
Why does Governor Stephen Poloz keep giving green lights to big spending governments?
BAGHDAD — Iraq has brought forward the date for oil companies to bid on exploring and developing nearly a dozen hydrocarbon-rich areas to April 15, instead of June. Thursday’s announcement by Abdul-Mahdi al-Ameedi, who heads the Oil Ministry’s Licensing and Petroleum Contracts Department, took representatives of international companies by surprise. They say there isn’t enough […]
The Public Health Agency of Canada says it has established a link between a recent outbreak of salmonella and a brand of frozen raw breaded chicken products sold primarily in eastern Canada.
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NEW YORK — McDonald’s, citing the new U.S. tax law and the tightening job market, is expanding its 3-year-old education benefits program, tripling the amount of money some workers can get each year to help pay for college or trade school tuition. The fast-food company is also changing its eligibility rules, which it says will […]
An economy doesn’t benefit — just the opposite — when government CEOs devise a policy for everything anyone at all says is a problem
There are holes in the proposed dental plan in Ontario’s budget, according to an Ottawa dentist.