A growing wave of Canadians wants to watch new movies and TV shows on their own terms and, as the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off for 2018, TIFF is welcoming the streamers.
Canada’s economy is set to slow down even with a NAFTA deal, economists say
Economic growth is expected to slow to 1.3 per cent in 2020, down from 3 per cent in 2017, as rising interest rates put pressure on consumer spending.
Ford recalls almost 340,000 F-150s in Canada for seatbelt fire risk
Ford is recalling 2 million F-150 pickup trucks from the last three model years to fix a problem with the front seatbelt pretensioners.
Trade ‘front and centre’ in Bank of Canada’s call to hold interest rate
The unknown consequences of ongoing trade tensions were front and centre in the Bank of Canada’s decision this week to leave its key interest rate unchanged, a top Bank of Canada official said Thursday.
Maker of GMO salmon says it sold 4.5 tonnes in Canada this year but won’t say to whom
Prepared sashimi products are where you’re likely to find genetically engineered salmon in Canada, the CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company that produces the fish, told investors Thursday.
To understand Venezuela’s future, look to the bond market, not politics and protests
Despite an economic crisis so severe that 2.3 million people have fled the country in the past four years, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro isn’t currently facing mass protests. Bond holders, however, are preparing to seize the country’s oil assets.
Canada needs Chapter 19 because Trump ‘doesn’t always follow the rules’: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending NAFTA’s dispute resolution mechanism in the face of a “president who doesn’t always follow the rules.”
Anonymous White House official cites Trump ‘amorality’ in New York Times op-ed
A senior administration official is sounding an alarm about U.S. President Donald Trump’s “amorality” and “impetuous” leadership style in an unsigned opinion piece published in the New York Times.
Canada’s special forces kept too many secrets about Afghan missions, says report
Canada’s special forces and elite counterterrorism units took secrecy too far and left their commanders — and sometimes the units themselves — in the dark about critical and occasionally deadly missions in Afghanistan, says the final report of a long-awaited closed-door board of inquiry.
Mysterious cache of old coins unearthed in Yukon
It’s been a busy summer for construction in Dawson City, Yukon — which means it’s also been busy for the territory’s archeologists.