Business
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Kirkland Lake Gold Identifies Rejected Rival Bidders to Newmarket Merger Deal
Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. has identified the unsolicited alternative joint bids valued at $1.44 billion it rejected from two miners it deemed inferior to ... -
Pace of Housing Starts Slips in October, CMHC Says
OTTAWA—Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the pace of housing starts slowed in most regions of the country in October, with an especially big ... -
U.S. Retailers Mixed on Whether to Open for American Thanksgiving
NEW YORK—Thanksgiving Day shopping is a delight to some and an anathema to others, but it isn’t going away and some stores are rethinking ... -
After Bell’s Email Migration, I Started to Get Sex Spam: Roseman
Bell Canada customers with an active @bell.net or @sympatico.ca email address started moving to a new email system this year. How did it go? ... -
Hertz Loses Half its Market Value as Profit Misses Estimates
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. lost half its market value after the rental-car company reported a third-quarter profit that badly trailed analysts’ estimates and cut ... -
Services Sector to Play Increasingly Important Role in Exports, Bank of Canada Says
HALIFAX—Canada’s services sector is expected to play an increasingly important role in the growth of the country’s exports, a deputy governor of the Bank ... -
Ford Workers Accept New Unifor Contract
Unionized workers at Ford’s Canadian operations have accepted a new contract with the automaker. Unifor, which represents some 6,700 workers at Ford, says the ... -
China May Team up with the Likes of Netflix, HBO and Warner Bros. to Create TV Shows
LOS ANGELES—Global streaming giant Netflix hasn’t been able to launch its service in China, and U.S. TV studios have had a hard time ... -
Mafia III Makes a Point with Diversity
When the developers of latest version of the Mafia franchise revealed their protagonist last summer, they surprised a lot of people with a very ... -
US Election Results Will Have Little to no Effect on Trade Relations with Canada: Olive
What’s at stake for Canada in the U.S. presidential vote on Nov. 8? Surprisingly little, as it happens. For all the storm and fury ...