Congo receives first doses of Ebola vaccine amid outbreak
The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines arrives in Congo’s capital.
Monthly Archive: May 2018
Please don’t repo Fido: Lawmakers look to ban pet leasing
ALBANY, N.Y. — How much is that maltipoo in the window? It could end up costing twice what it says on the price tag if the buyer is enticed into signing a pet leasing contract. That’s what nearly happened to 24-year-old Natalie Sullivan, of Brooklyn. She and her roommate, she said, fell in love with […]
Trudeau uses NYU graduation speech to criticize growth in identity politics
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first order of business after descending on Donald Trump’s hometown Wednesday was to enlist thousands of newly minted American university graduates in the fight against a rising tide of intolerance and nationalism around the world. Officials had billed Trudeau’s three-day trip to New York and Boston as focused […]
iA Financial Group rolls out award-winning retirement planning website to all clients
Quebec City, QC (May 16, 2018) – iA Financial Group is proud to provide access to the My Retirement website for all individual and group services clients. The website contains a wealth of information...
CSIO Tech Scorecard Update: Brokerage Scores Increase 6% Across Canada
Toronto, ON (May 2, 2018) – The Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO) is pleased to announce that brokerage adoption of eight key technologies has risen by 6% across Canada, to a new...
‘We’re right at peak gold’: All major deposits have been discovered, declares Goldcorp chairman
‘Are we not looking for it? Are we bad at finding it? Or have we found it all? My answer is we found it all’
Bank of Canada has a ‘bit more room’ to support demand thanks to uptick in potential output
‘The higher the projected growth rate of potential output, the faster the economy can grow without inflation rising persistently above our target,’ Deputy Governor said
Kinder Morgan CEO ‘appreciates’ feds’ offer to backstop higher pipeline cost
CALGARY — The CEO of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. says he “appreciates” an announcement by Finance Minister Bill Morneau that the government will compensate investors in the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion if “unnecessary delays” cause costs to rise. Morneau says the government is willing to “provide indemnity” to any investors, be they the project’s […]
Pipeline work in question after court vacates key permit
RICHMOND, Va. — Environmental groups and the lead developer of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline were at odds Wednesday over what happens now that a federal appeals court has vacated a key permit for the multistate project. A spokeswoman for Dominion Energy said construction on the 600-mile natural gas pipeline will go on as scheduled. But […]
Education, immigration, trade can lift Canada’s growth prospects: central bank
OTTAWA — To lift the economy’s future growth prospects, a top Bank of Canada official is pointing to three areas that have helped the country in the past and could do so again: education, immigration and trade liberalization. In a speech today in Ottawa, Bank of Canada deputy governor Lawrence Schembri says the country’s potential […]