If you’ve been looking to gift that special someone a lightly used retail outlet, act fast: nearly half of the now-emptying 65 Bed Bath & Beyond stores in Canada have been snapped up.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA)—the union representing 11,500 scribes behind American film and TV—is on strike after failing to reach a new deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, AKA, the suits that sign their cheques.
British-Canadian computer scientist and University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton—known as one of the three “Godfathers of AI”—stepped down from his role at Google’s AI division so he could freely talk about the dangers AI currently poses.
After realizing it couldn’t make a fashion line in partnership with freakin’ Beyonce marketable, Adidas is stepping back to reassess its entire business.
Bigger mortgage payments have Canadians finding new and creative ways to continue making their monthly payments—even if it means they’re ultimately going to pay more.
With the S&P 500 up 8% so far this year, your portfolio might be looking pretty good. But there are some serious risks lurking below the surface of the apparent stock rally.
Driving the news: Last week’s surprisingly strong earnings for big tech amid gloomy economic data underscored a growing gap between winners and losers in the main US stock index.
Canada used to have one of the most productive economies in the world, but now? Not so much. We have already fallen behind the average developed economy, and the OECD now expects Canada to have the lowest per-capita GDP growth of any member country.
So what gives? A big part of the problem is our lagging productivity level. But what does that actually mean?
Faced with a litany of annoying bugs and bewildering product changes, many Twitter users are looking for an alternative—the question has always been, what would that alternative be?
If you thought there already weren’t enough homes to go around, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) wants you to know you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Driving the news: The CMHC says housing starts—a measure of how many new homes are being built—could nosedive 32% this year if inflation sticks around and interest rates remain high.
Since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), it’s been tough sledding for US regional banks… and investors worry that First Republic could be the next to fall.
Rogers wants you to look past The Great Outage and get excited that it has inked a new deal with SpaceX and Lynk Global to bring satellite wireless service to remote areas.
What happened: Rogers will tap into SpaceX and Lynk's network of satellites to offer cell services in remote areas (including those long stretches of highway where you get one bar if you're lucky).
Microsoft’s proposed US$69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is in jeopardy after the UK’s competition regulator delivered, to put it in gamer parlance, a 360 no-scope kill shot.