Category: Business & Economy

A new report analyzing cellular connectivity experiences by customers of Canada’s Big 3 providers says Rogers remains the most reliable network while Telus has the top 5G availability and Bell provides the best 5G download speeds. The study by Opensignal, which collected data from October to December of last year, scored the three companies on…

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is slamming Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s plan to split the federal budget, calling it a “sneaky accounting trick” to avoid balancing the books. Carney vowed at a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday to split the budget into two streams — capital and operating spending — and to…

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to congestion pricing tolls in New York City, which thin traffic and fund mass transit by making people pay to drive into Manhattan’s core. Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most…

Sunwing Airlines has cancelled all southbound flights from Toronto Pearson Airport for the second day in a row, citing the need to prioritize bringing home stranded passengers—some delayed for days—after a week of heavy snowfall and the Delta plane crash. The airline announced Thursday morning they had make the “necessary decision” to extend the cancellation…

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Bell is looking for answers after its subsea fibre-optic cable connecting western Newfoundland to Nova Scotia was severed for the second time in the space of a year. The telecommunications cable was most recently cut on Dec. 24, said David Joice, the company’s networks director. That’s almost a year after the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said that he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend. He said at an investment conference in Miami on Wednesday that the administration is considering a concept in which 20% of…

As more than one million mortgages come up for renewal in Canada this year, a new survey says the majority of those homeowners expect to pay more in their monthly borrowing costs. A Royal LePage survey released Thursday, conducted by Hill & Knowlton, said 57 per cent of Canadians set to renew a mortgage on…

All 21 people taken to hospital after a Delta Air Lines plane crashed at Toronto’s Pearson airport have been released, the airline said Thursday as the airport worked to reopen two runways that have been closed since the crash. The wreckage of the plane has been moved to a hangar as the Transportation Safety Board…

Canadian grocers, large and small, are seeking alternatives to U.S. products ahead of a potential trade war, while highlighting homegrown products already available on their shelves. The two countries are in the midst of a truce that’s set to end in early March, but grocers aren’t waiting around to see what happens. “I think this…

VICTORIA — B.C.’s Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the expectation of more duties and additional tariffs piled onto Canadian softwood lumber would “absolutely be devastating” for the country’s industry. Parmar says the government expects the U.S. Commerce Department will issue anti-dumping duties by Friday of as much as 14 per cent, on top of the…