Monthly Archive: May 2018

Opinion: Alberta has carried the weight of Confederation on their shoulders for several decades and has spent billions on services for other provinces

BANGKOK — An editor at an English-language newspaper in Thailand says he has been sidelined because he refused to tone down coverage that bluntly criticized the country’s military government. Umesh Pandey said Tuesday that he lost his post as editor-in-chief of the Bangkok Post after he refused to soften critical editorial coverage. Since seizing power […]

With millennial freelancers earning more than 27 per cent of their income outside the country, fintech innovations are removing foreign-currency payment obstacles

LONDON — The cost-of-living squeeze that many in Britain have experienced since the country voted to leave the European Union in 2016 eased further in March, official figures showed Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics said average earnings for workers, excluding bonuses, were up 2.9 per cent in the first three months of the year […]

The affected batch of Reblochon de Savoie, an Haute Montagne brand raw milk cheese, was being sold in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia and possibly across the country.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Home Depot Inc. (HD) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $2.4 billion. On a per-share basis, the Atlanta-based company said it had profit of $2.08. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.06 per share. The […]

The nation’s housing policy for the poor can feel like a giant lottery. Sometimes it actually is a lottery

When their shareholders say “You should really maximize shareholder value instead,” an audacious leader can reply “Well, where does it say that?”

DEARBORN, Mich. — AAA says nearly 1.3 million people from Michigan are expected to travel during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The auto club announced Monday that the projection is a nearly 5 per cent increase from last year’s travel for the holiday and the most in more than a decade. AAA says the increase […]

A handful of top business stories we’re tracking at Financial Post