4 Powerful Strategies for Relaunching Your Career in 2018
As 2018 approaches, many professionals desire a new job, promotion or career change. When you start to feel like your career is becoming stale or stagnant, it`s time to push the reset button and upgrade yourself the same way you upgrade the mobile apps on your smartphone. Every 12 months, when I was an Information […]
Bank earnings will be ‘mixed’ and ‘messy’ — but there’s some good news
Shares of big banks have been on a tear since mid-2017 as investors began to anticipate a better business environment thanks to an improving global economy and business-friendly policies from Washington. But—and there’s always a but with bank earnings, it seems—this quarter will be a slog. When fourth-quarter earnings season kicks off Friday, banks will […]
How Syrian Refugees are Helping Shape Canadian Cuisine
Until recently, Syrian food was hard to come by in Toronto. But that’s starting to change, thanks to the recent influx of more than 40,000 Syrian refugees to Canada — including around 11,000 in Toronto, where Syrian cuisine is beginning to take root. The new ventures range from shiny new cafés to stalls at farmer’s […]
3 TVs That Could Change How You Watch Movies
Televisions often aren’t very exciting. They’re flat black rectangles you tend to forget about when a show or movie starts playing. But at CES 2018, the annual tech show happening this week in Las Vegas, manufacturers are still trying to generate buzz for their lineup of TVs coming later this year. The show also features […]
Is Corning Stock a Buy in 2018?
2017 was a great year for glass and ceramics maker Corning (NYSE: GLW), which saw its stock rally 32% against the S&P 500’s 19% gain. The 167-year-old company ended a five-quarter streak of annual revenue declines with five straight quarters of growth as most of its business units roared back to life. But can Corning […]
Increasing minimum wage puts money back into small business economy, says labour expert
Could also help employers attract workers in high-cost cities like Vancouver, he adds An higher minimum wage has the potential to boost local economies by putting more money into the pockets of workers, according to a labour expert. Following blowback against businesses that have cut benefits and paid breaks to account for the recent mandatory […]
Nova Scotia hitting period of ‘intense flu activity’
Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health says the province expects flu cases to spike within the coming weeks. New data from the federal Health Department shows flu activity is high and continuing to rise in Canada, with more than 15,500 cases confirmed compared to about 9,000 this time last year. In Nova Scotia, there […]
How to Retire as a Millionaire Using Only a TFSA
For new and experienced investors alike, the opportunity to retire as a millionaire is actually much easier than most would believe. Although the hardest part of the process for most investors is saving the money, the truth is that saving is the only part of the process that investors have complete control over. Once the […]
Potentially huge losses from future earthquakes in Eastern Canada: study
MONTREAL — While people in British Columbia are mindful of the fact they could eventually face some of the strongest earthquakes in the world, at least one study warns there’s a lack of awareness of the risk in Eastern Canada. One report released last summer predicts Montrealers could suffer $45 billion in economic losses if […]