Canada, EU inch closer to free trade deal The Harper government has agreed to smooth the way for more takeovers of Canadian companies by European firms in one of several concessions during free-trade talks, sources tell The Canadian Press. Canada has also agreed to open up parts of its … Read more on CBC.ca Research...
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Krugman warns Canada vulnerable to a 'big deleveraging shock' Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman was in Toronto over the weekend and he was kind enough to take notice that we may be experiencing a housing and debt bubble here. In a new post on his blog over at the New York Times, Mr....
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Ottawa’s proposed Canada Job Grant is deeply flawed and should be abandoned, a joint report to be released Monday by two policy think tanks says. Despite the upbeat TV ads Ottawa is running in support of its new $ 15,000 a person training program, it’s far from clear the program will deliver the promised...
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Canada hopes Arctic Council business forum “will have ongoing life” Canada hopes that the circumpolar business conference planned for its Arctic Council chairmanship will have “an ongoing life,” the chair of the council's meetings of non-elected officials, Patrick Borbey, told reporters May 29 in Iqaluit. “At the end … Read more on Nunatsiaq News...
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Kids are digging deeper for Father’s Day, according to a new survey which found Canadians plan to spend an average of $ 95 to celebrate dad this year — up from $ 86 from 2012. The report also discovered that Atlantic Canadians have the thriftiest plans, spending an average of $ 61, while those...
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More than 12,000 travellers have signed an online petition to demand Air Canada boost its compensation to passengers who are bumped due to overbooking on domestic flights. The petition on change.org was started by Montreal engineering professor Jeremy Cooperstock on Tuesday, following last week’s ruling by the Canadian Transportation Agency that called the current...
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The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that Air Canada should pay more than $ 100 in compensation to passengers bumped from flights that have been overbooked. It was another victory for Gabor Lukacs, a passenger rights advocate based in Halifax, who complained to the agency in December 2011 about the airline’s practice of overselling...
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You can buy a gift card for almost anything — coffee, clothes, electronics, groceries and even gas. Air Canada is hoping to cash in on this booming business by selling these cards, available in any denomination from $ 25, up to $ 10,000. Cards in U.S. dollars are capped at $ 2,000. They can...
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MONTREAL—Industry Canada may let its current rules apply when it comes to the sale of Mobilicity to avoid having the small, struggling carrier swallowed up by Telus, some telecom analysts predicted on Monday. Ottawa could also extend the five-year period that prevents the early transfer of Mobilicity’s licence for spectrum, radio waves over which...
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Air Canada’s new discount airline Rouge is calling in the gurus of customer service: Mickey and Minnie. Rouge has hired the training arm of Walt Disney Co. to teach all of Rouge’s flight attendants the secrets of good customer service, with the hope of bringing some of that famed Disney magic to the skies....
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