Canada's WestJet to Buy Sunwing Airlines
Canadian airline WestJet Group, owned by private equity firm Onex Corp, said on Wednesday it would buy leisure rival Sunwing Airlines for an undisclosed amount as it looks to tap into a rebound in air travel.
| Posted: | 7:09 PM on Wednesday |
| Topic: | Business |
| Hits: | 193169 |
| Rating: | 19317 |
| Poster: | Scape |
Ice Cream Machine Hackers Sue McDonald's for $900 Million
Kytch alleges that the Golden Arches crushed its business—and left soft serve customers out in the cold.
| Posted: | 8:54 AM on Wednesday |
| Topic: | Business |
| Hits: | 193042 |
| Rating: | 19304 |
| Poster: | DrCaleb |
When Nanuk met nanuq: Dog and polar bear come nose to nose in Black Tickle
The Labrador community sees its fair share of polar bears every year, but in this close encounter of the furred kind, neither dog nor bear seemed to know what to do with each other.
| Posted: | 8:52 AM on Wednesday |
| Topic: | Misc CDN |
| Hits: | 193180 |
| Rating: | 19318 |
| Poster: | DrCaleb |
Gordie Howe international bridge project prompts calls to Buy Canadian
Union leaders, opposition MPs and advocates for Canada's steel producers say they're concerned that a portion of a $5.7 billion international bridge project between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., could be built using raw materials produced outside North Ameri
| Posted: | 8:50 AM on Wednesday |
| Topic: | Political |
| Hits: | 192933 |
| Rating: | 19293 |
| Poster: | DrCaleb |
Bank of Canada hikes key interest rate to 0.5%
The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate to 0.5 per cent on Wednesday, a move that's expected to be the first of a series of small rate hikes this year in an attempt to tame inflation that has risen to its highest point in decades.
| Posted: | 8:34 AM on Wednesday |
| Topic: | Economics |
| Hits: | 193284 |
| Rating: | 19328 |
| Poster: | DrCaleb |
Burnt-out ship carrying 4,000 VWs, Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis sinks in rough seas
The Felicity Ace sank 220 miles off the coast of Portugal’s Azores Islands around 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday after being battered by waves and leaning 45 degrees to its starboard side.
| Posted: | 5:31 AM on Wednesday |
| Topic: | Business |
| Hits: | 193425 |
| Rating: | 19344 |
| Poster: | DrCaleb |
169 potential graves found at site of former residential school in northern Alberta | CBC News
Kapawe’no First Nation, about 370 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, says 169 potential graves have been found using ground-penetrating radar at the site of a former residential school at Grouard Mission.
| Posted: | 9:09 PM on Tuesday |
| Topic: | History |
| Hits: | 193693 |
| Rating: | 19369 |
| Poster: | Scape |
Almost one-third of medical procedures misused: Canadian study
A new study that looked at more than 200 medical procedures in Canada found they were being used inappropriately almost one-third of the time.
| Posted: | 6:27 AM on Tuesday |
| Topic: | Health |
| Hits: | 193152 |
| Rating: | 19315 |
| Poster: | DrCaleb |
Rural realities, Moncton shooting played into early police response in Portapique: expert
A criminologist says the reality of understaffed police forces in rural communities, combined with the chaotic first hours of the Portapique killings, played a major role in how officers responded.
| Posted: | 5:47 AM on Tuesday |
| Topic: | Law & Order |
| Hits: | 192810 |
| Rating: | 19281 |
| Poster: | DrCaleb |