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Chevron pizza offer fails to register as a scandal in town where gas well exploded

Chevron pizza offer fails to register as a scandal in town where gas well exploded

Mar 6, 2014 / 10:08 pm

BOBTOWN, Pa. - Critics are raging after an energy giant offered pizza coupons to a community near a natural gas well that exploded last month, killing a worker....

Book based on popular Twitter feed about Goldman Sachs is cancelled

Mar 6, 2014 / 10:04 pm

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Publication has been cancelled for a planned book based on a popular and anonymous Twitter feed about Goldman Sachs and the financial industry....

Ombudsman powers expanded to include school boards and municipalities

Mar 6, 2014 / 8:04 pm

TORONTO - Ontario will take a "huge leap' with proposed legislation to expand the powers of the ombudsman to provide oversight of municipalities, universities...

Alberta budget shows $1.1B surplus

Alberta budget shows $1.1B surplus

Mar 6, 2014 / 7:38 pm

Alberta is back in the black when it comes to day-to-day spending, but the good times are being underwritten with billions of dollars in debt, which is now at...

AP Exclusive: Man named by Newsweek as Bitcoin's founder strongly denies it

Mar 6, 2014 / 4:52 pm

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The man Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin denies he had anything to do with the digital currency. In an exclusive two-hour...

US factory orders drop 0.7 per cent in January but key category for investment rebounds

Mar 6, 2014 / 3:08 pm

WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories fell in January for a second straight month but a key category that signals business investment plans rebounded. That...

Financial services industry needs to recruit more women, says top BMO execs

Mar 6, 2014 / 3:00 pm

TORONTO - Julie Barker-Merz recalls shooting up the corporate ladder very quickly when she started at the bank nearly two decades ago. But by the time she...

Kroger's profit beats expectations as storm response boosts sales

Mar 6, 2014 / 2:48 pm

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Kroger said its ability to keep its supermarkets open and well-stocked as customers rushed to hoard groceries ahead of winter storms helped...

Hillary Clinton says little to reassure Calgary crowd on Keystone

Mar 6, 2014 / 2:38 pm

CALGARY - Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton says whatever the decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, it's important that Canada and the...

U.S. Department of Transport further tightens testing rules for oil trains

U.S. Department of Transport further tightens testing rules for oil trains

Mar 6, 2014 / 2:34 pm

BILLINGS, Mont. - The U.S. government is further tightening testing requirements for companies that transport oil by rail after a spate of explosions caused by...

US productivity slowed to a 1.8 per cent growth rate in 4Q while labour costs fell slightly

Mar 6, 2014 / 2:16 pm

WASHINGTON - U.S. productivity grew at an even slower annual rate than previously thought in the final three months of last year.Economists are hoping...

Weekly applications for US unemployment benefits decline to 323,000, lowest level in 3 months

Mar 6, 2014 / 1:22 pm

WASHINGTON - The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dropped 26,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 323,000, the lowest level in three months...

Jason Kenney heading to Germany, Great Britain, to study apprenticeship systems

Mar 6, 2014 / 12:46 pm

OTTAWA - Employment Minister Jason Kenney is travelling to Germany this weekend to study the European powerhouse's apprenticeship system.The German system is a...

Value of building permits up 8.5 per cent in January: Statistics Canada

Mar 6, 2014 / 12:40 pm

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says municipalities issued $7 billion worth of building permits in January, up 8.5 per cent from December.The agency says the...

Oscar Mayer says it has developed app to wake you up to the sound - and smell - of bacon

Mar 6, 2014 / 12:04 pm

MADISON, Wis. - Want to wake up to the sound of bacon sizzling on the stove with its aroma drawing you out of bed?There's an app for that.Oscar Mayer says it...

Staples plans to shutter 225 stores by end of 2015 as more customers shop online, sales slide

Staples plans to shutter 225 stores by end of 2015 as more customers shop online, sales slide

Mar 6, 2014 / 10:36 am

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Staples will close up to 225 stores in North America by the end of next year as it seeks to trim about $500 million in costs annually by...

Real Estate video showcases Kelowna

Real Estate video showcases Kelowna

Mar 6, 2014 / 10:35 am

After months of planning and accumulating outstanding video footage, Jane Hoffman Group Signature Series is ready to launch. They are excited to showcase Jane...

Higher stock prices and home price gains lift US household wealth to record $80 trillion

Mar 6, 2014 / 10:28 am

WASHINGTON - A surging stock market and rebounding home prices boosted Americans' wealth to a record in the final three months of last year, though both trends...

Not a trivial pursuit: Iceland startup Plain Vanilla finds success with quiz app

Mar 6, 2014 / 10:28 am

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A small startup has taken the gaming world by storm, finding success with its QuizUp trivia app and spurning offers to abandon its remote...

Federal government investigates Alberta pipeline company after spill report

Mar 6, 2014 / 10:06 am

EDMONTON - The federal government is looking into whether there should be charges against a U.S.-based pipeline company after a damning report by an Alberta...

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