BlackBerry renames Internet of Things business to QNX
The Waterloo, Ont.-based technology firm says the business previously called BlackBerry IoT will now be known as QNX. It says ...
Calgary home sales down in December but still above long-term trends
The Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB) says 1,322 homes changed hands last month, which was 2.9 per cent lower than December 2023. On a month-over-month basis, home sales were down 26.3 per cent from ...
Tesla's annual EV sales drop for first time in over a decade
Tesla Inc.’s annual vehicle sales dropped for the first time in more than a decade despite a year-end push that sent deliveries to a record in the fourth quarter. The Elon Musk-led company sold 1.79 ...
Pembina completes acquisition of stake in WhiteCap assets
Pembina Pipeline Corp. says its subsidiary Pembina Gas Infrastructure Inc. (PGI) has completed its previously announced acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in WhiteCap Resources Inc.’s Kaybob complex ...
Cameco announces surprise suspension of its Kazakhstan mine
Cameco attributed the closure to “the delayed submission” of certain documents to Kazakhstan’s ministry of energy. It said Inkai did not receive an extension, so Kazatomprom on Dec. 30 directed the ...
Ottawa says it will extend charitable donation deadline because of postal strike
He got the idea from a submission made to the standing committee on finance in February 2012 by Ottawa charity lawyers Arthur Drache, a former tax columnist for the Financial Post, and Adam Aptowitzer ...
Operation to unload cargo from ship stuck in St. Lawrence Seaway delayed
An operation to off-load thousands of tonnes of corn from a ship that ran aground in the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal has been postponed to the weekend. The plan had been to start ...
Thomson Reuters acquires owner of tax software SafeSend for US$600 million
Thomson Reuters Corp. says it has acquired a United States tax and accounting software business for US$600 million. The Michigan-based company is called cPaperless LLC but operates under the SafeSend ...
Biden to Block More Offshore Oil Drilling Before Trump Arrives
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections for ...
Canada's crypto industry taking lessons from U.S. election wins
Since the U.S. election, crypto prices and trading volumes have risen in the U.S. and Canada. WonderFi’s platform has seen ...
RDSPs a 'no-brainer' savings tool for people with disabilities, but awareness lacking
Only 21 per cent of those living with a disability, and 17 per cent of Canadians overall, are aware of RDSPs — the lowest awareness rate among all registered accounts. By contrast, she said 86 per ...
Marc Kielburger wants to live forever — and there's a multitrillion-dollar industry helping him get there
Marc Kielburger describes his old injury in aching detail. The first thing that came to mind upon hearing the sickening “pop, ...