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George Weston raises quarterly dividend 10% as it reports a first-quarter profit
Galen Weston, director of George Weston Limited speaks at the company's annual general meeting in Toronto on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. George Weston Ltd. raised its dividend by 10 per cent as it reported a profit attributable to shareholders in its latest quarter compared with a loss a year ago. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Swedish Match shares hit record high on Philip Morris takeover move
FILE PHOTO: Philip Morris International Operation Center is pictured in Lausanne August 19, 2009. Philip Morris International (PMI) is the leading international tobacco company, with products sold in approximately 160 countries. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
IBM unsure how long it can keep Russia-based staff on payroll in light of escalating sanctions, CEO says
BARCELONA, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 28: A logo sits illuminated outside the IBM booth at the SK telecom booth on day 1 of the GSMA Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world's largest communications companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and wearables gadgets like foldable screens. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
How protests put Ottawa’s capital-city flaws on display
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Russia’s use of nuclear weapons set out in military doctrine: deputy foreign minister
FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (3rd L) visits the National Defence Control Centre (NDCC) to oversee the test of a new Russian hypersonic missile system called Avangard, which can carry nuclear and conventional warheads, in Moscow, Russia December 26, 2018. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo
Tesla halts most production at Shanghai plant owing to problems securing parts
FILE PHOTO: The logo of car manufacturer Tesla is seen at a branch office in Bern, Switzerland October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
As tensions between NATO and Russia increase, look to Kaliningrad
PANEMUNE, LITHUANIA - APRIL 16: General view of Sovetsk in Kaliningrad Oblast on April 16, 2022 as seen from Panemune, Lithuania. Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, on the shore of the Baltic Sea, is sandwiched between NATO members Lithuania and Poland and is the Baltic coasts most strategic transport and trade port. (Photo by Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)
‘Death by paper cuts’ and the underappreciated reason for market sell-off
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on May 9.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms criticizes German antitrust watchdog’s data curb order as ‘flawed’
FILE - Facebook's Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on, Oct. 28, 2021. Ireland’s privacy watchdog has fined Meta, 17 million euros, or about $19 million, for violating Europe’s privacy law. The regulator, the Data Protection Commission, has been investigating how Meta Platforms Inc. complied with the requirements of the law, known as General Data Protection Regulation, in how it handled personal data in 12 data breach notifications between June and December 2018. The agency said Tuesday, March 15, 2022 that it found that Meta didn’t have the right measures in place to show it could protect EU users’ data. Meta said the fine is about record keeping practices from 2018 that it has since updated, not a failure to protect people’s information. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)
At least 14 killed in overnight attack on displaced persons camp in eastern Congo
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 16, 2020 a woman walks near the Lodda IDP camp, near Fataki, in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. - Fourteen civilians were killed in an attack on a displaced persons camp in Ituri province, in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo, a security monitor said on May 10, 2022. The attack occurred on May 9, 2022, according to Kivu Security Tracker, a respected conflict monitor in the region, with militants from a faction of the CODECO group suspected. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)
Terra’s stablecoin UST loses dollar peg as broader crypto market takes a hit
FILE PHOTO: A bank of cryptocurrency miners operates at the Scrubgrass Plant in Kennerdale, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Alan Freed
Pandemic ups and downs likely still compounding surgical backlogs
Blur background of equipment and medical devices in modern operating room
Oil market volatility not linked to OPEC+, UAE energy minister says
FILE - United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei speaks during the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Forum at the Dubai Expo 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Federal and provincial government coffers fuller than expected due to higher inflation, growth: analysis
FILE PHOTO: A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo/File Photo
Ontario election day 7: Party leaders spar over affordability, jobs and infrastructure in northern Ontario
From top left clockwise, Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford and Green Leader Mike Schreiner.
Prince Charles delivers Queen’s Speech for the first time
Britain's Prince Charles sits by the The Imperial State Crown in the House of Lords Chamber, during the State Opening of Parliament, in the Houses of Parliament, in London, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Britain’s Conservative government made sweeping promises to cut crime, improve health care and revive the pandemic-scarred economy as it laid the laws it plans in the next year in a tradition-steeped ceremony known as the Queen’s Speech -- but without a key player, Queen Elizabeth II, absent for the first time in six decades. The 96-year-old monarch pulled out of the ceremonial State Opening of Parliament because of what Buckingham Palace calls “episodic mobility issues.” Her son and heir, Prince Charles, stood in, rattling through a short speech laying out 38 bills the government plans to pass. (Ben Stansall/Pool Photo via AP)
Morning Update: Competition watchdog seeks to block Rogers-Shaw deal
A Shaw Communications sign is photographed at the Shaw Corporate HQ in Calgary, AB on 09 May, 2022.
Tuesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades
Bank towers are shown from Bay Street in Toronto's financial district, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010.
Maverix leads US$83.5-million deal in Shopify merchant consolidator Agora despite e-commerce rout
John Ruffolo photographed on Bay Street in Toronto near the offices for his new private-equity firm Maverix. The former OMERS Ventures head lost the use of his legs after being hit by a tractor-trailer last September while cycling. Six months later he is launching the new firm. March 12, 2021 (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)
The WEF conspiracy theory is in the Conservative leadership race, and Canada’s main streets
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Majority of Canadians support federal government’s plan to regulate internet, poll shows
Networking cables in a server bay are shown in Toronto on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. A U.K. company that tracks the performance of home internet connections is seeking volunteers for a new Canadian study that will collect data this summer. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Sri Lanka protesters call for new government a day after clashes kill eight
Security personnel walk past a burned vehicle along a road, a day after they were torched by protesters in Colombo on May 10, 2022. - Five people were killed and more than 225 wounded in a wave of violence in Sri Lanka where the prime minister resigned after weeks of protests over the worsening economic crisis. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)
Nintendo announces 10-1 stock split; sees Switch sales falling 9% year on year
FILE PHOTO: The Nintendo logo is displayed at the Nintendo Tokyo store, in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 19, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
U.S. oil settles below $100 a barrel on economic worries, strong dollar
FILE - Pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. April 24, 2015. A United Nation-backed panel plans to release a highly anticipated scientific report on Monday, April 4, 2022, on international efforts to curb climate change before global temperatures reach dangerous levels. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Singing bye-bye to Don McLean’s American Pie
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Russia pounds vital Ukraine port of Odesa, targeting supply lines
Emergency services work at a site of a shopping centre destroyed by shelling amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine, May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Igor Tkachenko
Commercial developers slow to make room for artists
The rising tide of senior surfers
Jeanne Keith-Ferris poses for a photo with her surfboard on Chesterman Beach, in Tofino, British Columbia, on May 1, 2022.
Climate mitigation in capital cities costs. Is building new ones the solution?
Panoramas and images of Kampung Melayu urban village, with Ciliwung River on the right hand side, looking towards the skyline of Central Jakarta, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Ciliwung River is considered one of the most polluted rivers in the world, and as a result the surrounding area tend to suffer from heavy flooding during rainy season. The frequent flooding in Jakarta is one of the main reasons of the relocation of the capital city of Indonesia to the regencies of Panajem Paser Utara and Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, due to be built by 2024.
Canada’s wireless business should have a four-player minimum
A Rogers Communications Inc. logo outside the Rogers Building in Toronto on Tuesday, April 22, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
‘My life is in danger’: Afghans are being tortured by the Taliban while waiting for Canada to act
A Taliban fighter stands guard as people line up to enter the government passport office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
This Montreal business found success in scent-sensitive global markets
Anie Rouleau, founder of The Unscented Company poses, at their head offices in Montreal, April 26, 2021. (Christinne Muschi /The Globe and Mail)
Vention latest Canadian technology company to raise $100-million despite rapidly cooling market
Max Windisch, left, and Etienne Lacroix, right, co-founders of Vention, a digital machine manufacturing platform, at their company offices in Montreal on Thursday, January 11, 2018. (Dario Ayala / The Globe and Mail)
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., May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
In virus-hit China, investors rush headlong into bonds and deposits
An investor looks at screens showing stock market movements at a securities company in Nanjing, China.
One year of The Decibel: Updates on our biggest stories
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How can I encourage my company to offer parental leave benefits?
Rise of online shopping, shipping drives GM into race to electrify delivery products
BrightDrop Zevo 600 displayed in Toronto in April 2022.
Buying the dip? Bitcoin’s a rates rookie
Tuesday’s small-cap stocks to watch
A screen charts the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the trading day on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 24, 2022.
The close: TSX flirts with correction territory as commodity prices fall
A file photo from the TMX Broadcast Centre in downtown Toronto in 2013.
ETF investing plummets to lowest level since COVID-19 crisis hit
A trader works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
May 10: ‘There is no abortion legislation in Canada, and that should be a good thing.’ Should Justin Trudeau legislate a woman’s right to choose? Plus other letters to the editor
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with the media as he make his way to caucus on Parliament Hill, Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in Ottawa.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is looking at using legislation to ensure a woman's right to a safe and legal abortion will be  permanently protected in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Avalanche first to advance to second round with sweep of Preds
Colorado Avalanche left wing Gabriel Landeskog (92) shakes hands with Nashville Predators' Filip Forsberg (9) after Game 4 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Monday, May 9, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. The Avalanche won 5-3 to sweep the series 4-0. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Gaudreau scores on penalty shot, Flames down Stars 4-1 to even up playoff series
Calgary Flames goaltender Jacob Markstrom (25) blocks a shot by Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin (91) in the third period of Game 4 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series, Monday, May 9, 2022, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Tears, hugs and joy in St. John’s, N.L., as 166 Ukrainian refugees arrive from Poland
Nine year old Zoriana greets her sister, Sofia, as her and their mother, Natalia, arrive from Ukraine in St. John's, Monday, May 9, 2022. Newfoundland and Labrador received its first plane load of refugees from the Ukraine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Greg Locke
Child-care fees are on track to drop in some Canadian cities in 2022, says report
A young boy plays at a CEFA (Core Education and Fine Arts) Early Learning daycare franchise, in Langley, B.C., on Tuesday May 29, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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