Actyl Group Inc., a company that recruits temporary foreign workers on behalf of Canadian employers, has filed a lawsuit against McDonald's Canada alleging breach of contract and defamation of character. McDonald's use of workers supplied by the agency was the subject of CBC News stories earlier this year.
The on-again, off-again free trade with the European Union is now expected to be finalized and signed at the end of September, concluding one of the Harper government's long-held objectives, CBC's Chris Hall reports.
The International Monetary Fund says Canada and other countries can improve their economies and environment by hiking energy taxes — while cutting them on people and capital.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 300 points on Thursday as investors dumped shares in just about everything following Argentina defaulting and bleak earnings and profit outlooks from a host of companies.
Canada's telecom regulator has banned exclusive wireless roaming deals in Canada after finding that Rogers included unfair clauses in them that hiked the cost of doing business for new entrants and customers.
The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has ordered two investment firms to pay more than $1.4 million to a group of investors who lost money because of one bad investment advisor.
PlayStation 4 owners in Canada and the U.S. can now rent games via Sony's new game streaming service, PlayStation Now.
Suncor Energy Inc. said Wednesday its net income during the second quarter dropped by more than two thirds as it took some $1.2 billion in charges related to its holdings in the oilsands and in Libya.
PlayStation 4 owners in Canada and the U.S. can now rent games via Sony's new game streaming service, PlayStation Now.
Toronto has the 15th highest concentration of millionaires in the world, according to recent number-crunching by a British wealth management company.
Electric car manufacturer Tesla is to partner with Japanese electronics giant Panasonic to build a $5-billion battery manufacturing plant on U.S. soil.
Barrick Gold Corp. had a $269-million net loss on lower earnings in the second quarter, in part because of a $514 million impairment charge on the sale of its stake in the Jabal Sayid mine in Saudi Arabia.
Canada Post has released commemorative stamps in honour of homegrown country music stars Tommy Hunter, Shania Twain, k.d. lang, Hank Snow and Renée Martel.
Canada's economy expanded by 0.4 per cent in May, a sharp improvement from 0.1 per cent the month before.
Target is bringing in an outsider as its CEO for the first time as the retailer fights to redefine itself to American shoppers.
In an era where processed and fatty meats have been vilified by health experts, and vegetarianism has gone mainstream, bacon is making a huge comeback.
The collapse of talks with U.S. creditors sent Argentina into its second debt default in 13 years and raised questions about what comes next for financial markets and the South American nation's staggering economy.
The sequel to the campy classic film Sharknado premiered Wednesday, and the Canadian version featured an actor playing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
The Toronto stock market advanced to a record close Wednesday, powered by solid earnings and an indication from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it is in no rush to raise interest rates.
Cenovus Energy Inc. has appointed a vice president of rail to its leadership team, as the major oilsands producer moves more of its crude by train.
Guardians of the Galaxy stars Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, the voices of Bradley Coopert and Vin Diesel. The movie hits theatres on Friday, Aug. 1.
Nintendo Co. sank to a worse-than-expected loss for the fiscal first quarter on lagging Wii U and 3DS video-game machine sales.
Microsoft is rolling out Cortana, a digital assistant similar to Apple's Siri, in countries outside the U.S. as part of an update to Windows Phone 8.1.
As financial literacy leader at the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, Jane Rooney aims to have a national strategy by 2015 to improve financial well-being among Canadians.
The Federal Reserve is slowing its purchases of bonds by another $10 billion to $25 billion US a month as expected, but gave no hint of when it might feel compelled to alter interest rates.
Prince Harry joins George Clooney, Jared Leto, Kelly Clarkson and others in the art of the photobomb.
A group of big name directors have pressured Hollywood studios into striking deal to buy motion film stock from Eastman Kodak over next several years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Chapters bookstore in the heart of downtown Montreal will soon shutter its doors, swapping books for bras as Victoria's Secret prepares to move in.
A group of big name directors have pressured Hollywood studios into striking deal to buy motion film stock from Eastman Kodak over next several years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The passage from the best-selling memoir American Sniper that sparked former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's defamation lawsuit will be removed, HarperCollins said Wednesday.
As the U.S. economy shows signs of strengthening with GDP growing at an annualized rate of four per cent in the second quarter of this year, President Barack Obama plans to weigh in on his economic policies today.
After a dismal winter, the U.S. economy sprang back to life in the April-June quarter, growing at a fast 4 percent annual rate on the strength of higher consumer and business spending.
The U.S. National Labor Relations Board said Tuesday that McDonald's could be named as a joint employer in several complaints regarding worker rights at franchise-owned restaurants. The decision is pivotal because it could expose McDonald's Corp. to liability for management practices in those locations.
Thalmic Labs of Kitchener, Ont., has begun shipping pre-orders of its Myo armband, a device that allows people to control computers and other devices with arm movements.
Ever wonder what an opera looks and sounds like from the soprano's perspective on the stage? You'll have the chance to find out for the first time this afternoon.
Canadian actress Emily Hampshire will play Jennifer Goines, the female version of Jeffery Goines, Brad Pitt's character in the TV adaptation of Terry Gilliams' 12 Monkeys.
Argentina will hold further debt talks with "holdout" investors in New York on Wednesday, a government source said, as talks to avoid a second default in little over a decade went down to the wire.
Canada's Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are in Windsor, Ont., today and expected to announce the formation of a U.S.-Canadian panel to oversee plans for a new bridge between Detroit and the southwestern Ontario city.
Calgary-based energy company Penn West says it will be conducting a thorough review of its books and restating past results.
Concerns prompted by the recent spate of fatal airplane mishaps overshadow the overall improvements to airplane safety over the years and the survivability of many crashes, aviation experts say.
Typing on a smartphone is hard enough – imagine doing it on a smartwatch or other wearable device. A Toronto startup called Minuum is trying to solve that problem with a tiny virtual keyboard.
Shares in social media company Twitter spiked after hours on Tuesday as the company revealed it more than doubled its revenue in the last quarter and now claims 271 million people actively use its service every month.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's production company taking legal action against Jesus Christ Superstar producer Michael Cohl over cancellation of this summer's North American arena tour.
Consumers often incorrectly estimate how much data they consume online and pay internet providers for more downloading and uploading than they actually do, a U.S. government watchdog says.
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett release the first single, Anything Goes, off their jazz duet album Cheek to Cheek, to be released Sept. 23.
Kevin Smith's set-in-Canada horror comedy to screen in TIFF 2014's Midnight Madness programme; just one of 40 more films announced Tuesday by TIFF programmers.
A Chinese corruption probe into state-run China National Petroleum Corp. has reached into Canada and is threatening its purchase here of the Dover oilsands.
Representatives of the International Civil Aviation Organization and three groups that represent the world's air carriers, airports and air navigation service providers are meeting in Montreal today to talk about enhancing the safety of commercial airlines flying in conflict zones.
More than 35 per cent of Americans have debts and unpaid bills that have been reported to collection agencies, according to a study released Tuesday by the Urban Institute.
A 17-year-old girl from New Mexico has invented a device aimed at reducing the chance a child will die in an overheated car.
