NASHVILLE — He felt like an invisible force was drawing him into the parking lot, past the four new white crosses in the driveway, the balloons and the flowers, and the letters addressed to the dead. He felt it pulling him into his regular spot, the one where he had been sitting in his car […]
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs agreed Tuesday to pay a combined $109.5 million in fines to federal and New York state authorities to settle charges that the investment bank’s currency traders unlawfully shared customers’ order information with other banks in order to take advantage of the market. Goldman is the latest big bank ensnared in […]
Lewis Kay, a Toronto researcher who developed a technique to watch microscopic proteins reposition themselves and change their shapes within cells, has won the $1 million Herzberg Gold Medal, Canada’s t…
Amazon plans to boost its Vancouver workforce five-fold to 5,000 by 2022, and the ‘Amazon effect’ could create more pressure in an already strained housing market
WINNIPEG — Manitoba Hydro has lost a bid to raise electricity rates this year by almost eight per cent. The provincial Public Utilities Board has instead approved an average rate increase of 3.6 per cent as of June 1. The regulator has also ordered the Crown utility to set up a new, separate rate class […]
OTTAWA — A new report says the Trudeau government’s efforts to streamline the budgeting process means $7 billion in new spending commitments from its recent budget would be subject to far less parliamentary scrutiny — and could technically be spent on something other than the promised measures. The federal budget watchdog’s warning is focused on […]
GATINEAU, Que. — Owners of Quebec-based ticket reseller 514-BILLETS have agreed to offer $10 rebate coupons to 7,500 clients in the first application of Canada’s anti-spam law has been applied to unsolicited messages sent to mobile phones. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission alleged that 514-BILLETS violated the law by sending text messages without the […]