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French energy group Engie expects shortlist of bidders for Equans unit by end of September, sources say
FILE PHOTO: The logo of French gas and power group Engie is seen in Nantes, France, September 28, 2020. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Ethiopia’s ambassador summoned by Sudan over 29 bodies found in river
U.S. SEC threatens to sue Coinbase over crypto lending program
FILE PHOTO: The logo for Coinbase Global Inc, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron and others at Times Square in New York, U.S., April 14, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
RCMP will not apologize to Black community for excessive Halifax street checks
Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella receives applause after addressing the audience as the force deals with historic complaints of racial profiling in Halifax on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Kinsella apologized for years of police street checks that disproportionately targeted black people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
B.C. unicorn Clio joins swath of acquisitive Canadian technology companies, countering fears of hollowing out of sector
Jack Newton, CEO and co-founder of Clio, poses for a photograph at the company's headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., on Tuesday September 3, 2019. Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
JPMorgan strikes deal to buy majority stake in Volkswagen’s payments business
FILE PHOTO: A Volkswagen logo is seen as it launches its ID.6 and ID.6 CROZZ SUV at a world premiere ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show, in Shanghai, China April 18, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
Defence tells jurors that Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is not a villain
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives at Robert F. Peckham U.S. Courthouse for opening arguments in her trial, in San Jose, California, U.S., September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Peter DaSilva
Elections Canada’s cancellation of on-campus voting program fails Canadian democracy
Camellia Wong is communications director at Future Majority, a non-partisan not-for-profit that mobilizes young Canadians to vote.
Toronto’s ambitious Housing Now drive is stuck in neutral
Currently being occupied by a senior care company, there’s a proposal to develop an 18 floor rental building on the property at 140 Merton, photographed on Sept 1, 2021.
Beijing’s frosty response to U.S. initiatives could lead to more confrontation
Frank Ching is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator.
Human rights groups urge broadcasters to cancel plans to cover 2022 Beijing Olympics
A woman walks past signs for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games at the 2021 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Florence Lo
BMO’s ‘consistent growth’ portfolio handily beating the TSX
Toronto's financial district in October of 2011.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says Powell should not be renominated as Fed Chair
FILE - In this July 15, 2021 file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell testifies before Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve will start dialing back its ultra-low-interest rate policies this year as long as hiring continues to improve, Powell said Friday, Aug. 27, signaling the beginning of the end of the Fed’s extraordinary response to the pandemic recession.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)
Bitcoin trading subdued after chaotic debut as legal tender in El Salvador
FILE PHOTO: A representation of virtual currency bitcoin is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
PayPal’s $2.7-billion deal to acquire Japanese firm Paidy heats up buy now, pay later race
FILE PHOTO: The PayPal logo is seen at a high-tech park in Beersheba, southern Israel August 28, 2017. Picture taken August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
China-U.S. climate co-operation inseparable from wider trade issues, official says
FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside a company building in Shanghai, China April 14, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song//File Photo
Morning Update: ‘A balancing act’: Several provinces enter uncharted legal territory with vaccine passports
A COVID-19 QR code (left) is scanned in Montreal, Wednesday, September 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Countries urge all sides in Myanmar to avoid violence after junta opponents declare revolt
This image made from video by National Unity Government (NUG) via Facebook, shows Duwa Lashi La, the acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), posted on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021 in Myanmar. Myanmar’s NUG, an underground body coordinating resistance to the military regime, on Tuesday called for a nationwide uprising. The shadow government's acting president Duwa Lashi La called for revolt “in every village, town and city in the entire country at the same time” against the military-installed government and declared a so-called ”state of emergency." (National Unity Government via Facebook via AP)
Why Maxime Bernier and his noxious views should be at the leaders’ debates
Andrew Coyne
If the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t an emergency demanding real leadership, what is?
An ambulance passes through a crowd of people protesting COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandatory vaccinations for health-care workers in Vancouver on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021.
Conservatives to release platform costing hours before first official leaders’ debate
Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers remarks at a campaign stop during his election campaign tour, at Valbruna ASW Inc. in Welland, Ontario, Canada September 6, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
Justin Trudeau is still the Liberal campaign’s biggest asset, and now its greatest liability
Campbell Clark
Wednesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades
This June 29, 2018 file photo shows tanks at the Enbridge Energy terminal in Superior, Wis.
Takeover battle for British supermarket group Morrisons heads for auction
FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk past a branch of the food retailer Morrisons in west London, Britain, January 7, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Land-sharing network building bridges between Saskatchewan farmers, Indigenous community
The public launch of the Treaty Land Sharing Network on July 15, 2021, at the farm of Mary Smillie and Ian McCreary in Bladworth, SK. Credit - Breanna Doucette-Garr/Treaty Land Sharing Network
Tesla sold 44,264 China-made vehicles in August, local deliveries up
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Tesla is seen in Taipei, Taiwan August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
Oil settles up 1% on low U.S. output after Hurricane Ida
FILE - In this April 21, 2021, file photo the sun sets beyond a pumpjack near Goldsmith, Texas. Congressional Democrats have approved a measure reinstating rules aimed at limiting climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling. The House gave final legislative approval Friday, June 25, to a resolution that would undo a Trump-era environmental rule that relaxed requirements of a 2016 Obama administration rule targeting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)
Four Indigenous filmmakers redefine Canadian film
STE. ANNE (2021). Renée (Rhayne Vermette) has moved back to her rural family home which her brother Modeste (Jack Theis) now shares with his wife Elenore. The two of them have been bringing up Renée’s young daughter Athene (Isabelle d'Eschambault) as if she were their own. Renée owns an empty lot in Sainte Anne, Manitoba, the one on the photo she shows to Athene, where a house is waiting to be built. A set of impressions, fragments, of the Treaty 1 territory, of daily life in the Métis Nation, to which Renée’s family belong, as do the director’s family who play them, she herself in the role of Renée. Credit: Exovedate Productions
Vancouver sustainable builder Nexii marks unicorn status with new funding round
Nexii Building Solutions CEO Stephen Sidwell poses for a photograph at the company's manufacturing plant in Squamish, B.C., on Monday, August 30, 2021. Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
Liberal campaign promise for new bank tax tempers investor expectations
Bank towers at the four corners of King St. West and Bay St. are photographed on Oct 1 2018. Clockwise from left are ScotiaBank, Bank of Montreal, TD and CIBC.
A smart receipt company that’s capturing the big banks’ attention
Corey Gross, co-founder and CEO of Sensibill, at his home (and home office) in Toronto, Ontario on August 24, 2021. For the series The AI Advantage; how companies use AI to expand. (Photo by Peter Power for The Globe and Mail)
Legal questions around rights linger as some provinces bring in COVID-19 vaccine passports
A COVID-19 QR code (left) is scanned  in Montreal, Wednesday, September 1, 2021. Some Alberta businesses are increasingly frustrated with the provincial government's reluctance to introduce a vaccine passport program. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Ministers, government have failed those fleeing Afghanistan
Refugees from Afghanistan and Canadian Citizens board a bus after being processed at Pearson Airport in Toronto, Tuesday, Aug 17, 2021, after arriving indirectly from Afghanistan. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says Canada will work tirelessly to evacuate people from strife-ridden Afghanistan "for as long as it is safe to do so." Sajjan tells a news conference today the challenging security conditions in Kabul are changing rapidly, even by the hour, but Canadian personnel are doing everything in their power to get people to safety. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Liberals, Conservatives suddenly agree on the need for EV sales quotas. How will they deliver post election?
Adam Radwanski
What every Canadian investor needs to know today
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., August 27, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
With GameStop earnings on tap, options traders bet on muted moves
A GameStop store is seen in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of New York City on Jan. 27.
Wednesday’s Insider Report: CEO accumulates units of this retail REIT
Sharing has come to camping as families seek out affordable holiday options
With the borders closed and other pandemic restrictions ebbing and flowing throughout the past 18 months, Canadians have turned to camping and RV rentals in droves.
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Data science is booming. So where are the women?
Kishawna Peck, executive director of Toronto Womxn in Data Science, is working to bring more diversity to the growing field of data science .
Public battle between Facedrive co-founders heats up as one claims the company may file for creditor protection
Larry Radzio, launches the Facedrive app while sitting in his car that he uses to pick up side jobs with Facedrive’s rideshare service, seen in Orillia, Ontario, Canada on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Facedrive Inc is a Canadian company that offers multiple services including rideshare services, food delivery, and health technology. The company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and operates in Canada and the United States. Ryan Carter/The Globe and Mail
The close: Stocks lower as Big Tech comes under pressure
A Bay Street sign hangs in front of the CN Tower in the financial district in Toronto, Wednesday June 28, 2017.
How families can deal with RESP uncertainties as another school year gets under way
Close up of a 2 year old boy holding an egg that reads RESP. An RESP is a Registered Education Savings Plan and the egg symbolizes saving for a child's education in Canada. See also
Sept. 8: ‘I’m no fan of Justin Trudeau. But even so, I’m appalled at the level of vitriol and escalating violence directed his way.’ Readers react after gravel thrown at Ontario protest, plus other letters to the editor
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is escorted by his RCMP security detail as protesters shout and through rocks while leaving a campaign stop at a local micro brewery during the Canadian federal election campaign in London Ont., on Monday, September 6, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Indonesia prison fire kills 41 drug inmates, 80 hospitalized
Staff and police officers guard the main entrance gate of Tangerang prison in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. A massive fire raged through the overcrowded prison early Wednesday, killing a number of inmates. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
New salads kits sold in Central, Eastern Canada added to recall
Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it will not allow commercial puppies under the age of eight months to be imported from Ukraine after dozens of dead or sick dogs were found on a flight at Toronto's airport. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Buyer drops extra $276,000 for Burlington house
Done Deal, 513 Mathewman Cres., Burlington, Ont.
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