TORONTO — Online gambling operator The Stars Group Inc. announced Saturday that it acquired Sky Betting & Gaming in a cash and stock transaction valued at US$4.7 billion. The Stars Group says the acquisition will make them the largest publicly listed online gaming company. The acquisition was made off CVC Capital Partners and Sky plc. […]
LAS VEGAS — A museum in Las Vegas lets visitors pretend to be police officers to show the complexity of the decisions that law enforcement officers face when they encounter situations that may require use of deadly force. The new hands-on, use-of-force exhibit at the Mob Museum gives visitors a pistol that shoots plastic pellets […]
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s offshore petroleum regulator has granted BP Canada Energy Group approval to begin drilling a well off the province’s coast. The Aspy D-11 exploration well is the first in BP Canada’s Scotian Basin Exploration Project, which could see up to seven exploration wells drilled off the southeast coast of Nova Scotia over […]
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the global finance meetings in Washington (all times local): 11:25 a.m. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO’-shin) is urging the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to pursue reforms that will support Trump administration foreign policy initiatives. Mnuchin says the World Bank needs to continue to shift its lending from […]
Each day, more than 8 million people around the globe step aboard some 90,000 flights. They almost always land safely. But in the rare chance of a crash, there are some things passengers can do to improve their odds of surviving. Here are some tips adapted from a British Airways safety awareness course. –During the […]
Hundreds of hands grappling with oxygen masks. Flight attendants warning passengers to brace for impact. The plane hurtling toward the unforgiving ground. Survivors of air accidents often proclaim that their survival was a miracle. But what follows is another kind of miracle: Many survivors manage to get past the horror and onto planes again. How […]
By Martin Eising, HealthQuotes.ca Inc. Aurora, ON (Apr. 19, 2018) – A hot topic of discussion these days is the issue of medical marijuana. Opinions on marijuana and its effectiveness treating various diseases and...
Atlanta, GA (Apr. 16, 2018) – Crawford & Company®, the world’s largest publicly listed independent provider of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities, announced today the launch of TruLook®, an integrated...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump offered a shifting rationale this past week for his firing of FBI Director James Comey and joined other Republicans in exaggerating how much simpler it will become for Americans to file their taxes next time. He also erred, though by just a hair, in claiming a historic achievement in black […]
BERLIN — Ireland-based Smyths Toys has reached a deal to take over more than 90 Toys R Us stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In March, Toys R Us said it would be liquidating its U.S. business. Its German branch said in a statement Saturday that Smyths Toys has signed an agreement to take over […]