Mail service back to normal
The restoration of delivery service guarantees by Canada Post — three weeks after striking postal workers were forced back to work — proves the shipment backlogs Ottawa used to justify legislating an end to rotating walkouts were “fiction,” says the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The Crown agency announced Tuesday it had caught up on […]
$1.6B for oilpatch relief
Ottawa is spending $1.6 billion to help struggling energy companies stay afloat, buy new equipment and diversify as Alberta grapples with bargain basement oil prices. Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi says $1 billion is to be set aside through Export Development Canada for oil and gas companies to make capital investments and purchase new technology. […]
Where you live has a lot to do with whether you got a raise in 2018
About one-third of workers say that they have received a raise in the past year. And if you live in certain areas of the country, your chances of being one of them are greater. That is according to Prudential’s latest American Workers Survey, which was conducted online in November. The report found that 32 percent […]
This is the mistake you’re most likely to make during market volatility
When you hear the market has suffered a big drop, your first instinct is probably to check your investment account balances. But that is actually the opposite of what you should do, according to Dan Ariely, chief behavioral economist at Qapital, a provider of a personal finance mobile app, and professor of behavioral economics at […]
Most Americans Are Making This Huge Tax Mistake
President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress passed a major overhaul of the United States tax code in late 2017 that will impact what you owe for 2018. Whether it will benefit you or require you to pay more to the IRS will depend upon your tax bracket and your exact filing situation. The changes […]
Excessive bank fees for unarranged overdrafts to be banned
Banks are to be banned from charging excessive fees for unauthorised overdrafts, paid by 14 million people every year, after the City watchdog found that the current system of fees needed “fundamental change”. The current range of fees and daily and monthly charges will be swept away and replaced by a simple, single interest rate, […]