MONTREAL — Hydro-Quebec will now need to go through Maine as part of a massive export deal to sell hydropower to Massachusetts. The U.S. state announced Wednesday it was dropping the $1.6 billion Northern Pass project that was set to deliver hydropower from Quebec through New Hampshire. Instead, the Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental […]
NEW YORK — You’re going to use those credit card points on that trip to Tahiti this year; you just don’t know it yet. A growing number of credit card companies are using artificial intelligence software to convince customers to use their credit card points in a certain way, be it redeeming their points for […]
Swiss and American researchers counted the microbes swimming inside the toys and say the murky liquid released when ducks were squeezed contained “potentially pathogenic bacteria” in four out of the fiv…
OTTAWA — Newly released documents show that federal officials have taken a close look at ways to have online services like Netflix and Amazon voluntarily agree to remit sales taxes. Pages of briefing notes provided to Heritage Minister Melanie Joly over the course of 2017 detail how certain governments around the world have required foreign-based […]
TORONTO — A new survey shows Toronto-region technology companies saw an increase in international job applicants last year as countries including the U.S. tightened their immigration policies. The survey by the MaRS Discovery District found that of the 55 companies that responded, 53 per cent saw more international applicants in 2017 over 2016 and 45 […]