Loblaw Companies Ltd., one of the oldest and largest grocery chains in Canada, is in the process of laying off 500 employees in offices across the country. Galen G. Weston, president and executive chairman of Loblaw Limited speaks to shareholders… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
Airbus takes control of Bombardier C-series jet program
Shares in Canada’s Bombardier Inc. jumped more than 20 per cent after the company gave up controlling interest in its mid-range C-series jet program to Europe’s Airbus Group. No money changed hands and Airbus will not assume Bombardier’s big debt.… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Google part of growing AI cluster in Montreal
The Google Brain Team was established in Montreal in 2016, with Hugo Larochelle as its lead. Larochelle, also an adjunct professor at the University of Montreal, is comfortable defining this cutting edge field of study and development. He describes artificial… »
U.S. demands an end to Canada’s supply management
The North American Free Trade talks (NAFTA) are going badly and it increasingly looks like the U.S. side is trying to sabotage them on orders of the protectionist president Donald Trump. Sources have told the Canadian Press that U.S. negotiators… »
Health, International, Society
The Loneliness Project seeks to ease the hurt gently
Sometimes, beauty and caring are their own rewards. Marissa Korda © Marissa Korda Sometimes, mixing those virtues with a healthy dose of empathy and compassion can go a whole lot farther than you ever imagined. Sometimes, if you are lucky, they… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Agreement soon on high Arctic fishing in international waters?
The area under discussions is almost 3 million sq/km of ocean beyond the boundaries of Arctic nations known as the Arctic doughnut hole Recently two relatively small sailing yachts on a British expedition made it almost to the North Pole.… »
Games can reduce racial bias in the young: study
Computer games can help very young children overcome implicit biases they have against people of unfamiliar races, according to a study by researchers at the University of Toronto and international colleagues. “These kinds of biases are automatic biases that children… »
Controversial aboriginal inquiry moves to Winnipeg
It’s called the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry (MMIWG). It was launched by the federal Liberal government of Justin Trudeau after years of calls for an investigation into the high proportion of indigenous women who have been… »
Economy, Highlights, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
U.S.- Canada trade dispute: Bombardier sale due to U.S. tariffs?
According to reports, Canada’s leading aerospace firm, Bombardier, is considering selling parts of its aerospace operation. The Canadian firm is facing massive U.S. tariffs of almost 300 per cent on its new C-series passenger jet as a result of a… »
Strike affects a half-million college students
Faculty at 24 colleges in the province of Ontario went on strike early Monday morning after management rejected the latest offer from the union. The walk-out by professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians affects more than 500,000 students, some of them… »
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