A transcript of episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly podcast. Including a story on how scientists are speeding up the hunt for dark matter.
A study published in JAMA suggests that treatment with vitamin C, in addition to thiamine and hydrocortisone, does not improve treatment outcomes in hospitalized patients with...
The story around Loblaw Cos. Ltd. hasn’t changed all that much for almost a year: The supermarket chain, like its competitors, has stayed in a rare...
Global 'COVID Deaths' Top 2.5 Million One Year After Start Of Pandemic The global COVID death toll has surpassed another macabre milestone: more than 2.5MM people...
CALGARY – Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews said the country’s largest oil-producing province would consider new sources of revenue “down the road,” after the most recent...
Canadian regulators are warning companies to be sure they disclose to investors — in detail — government financial support related to the pandemic. “(M)eaningful disclosures about...
Regional and inter-provincial travel have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in small and rural communities. Restricting people's movement is more challenging than it seems on...
TORONTO – The Ontario government will spend more on interest costs in 2020-21 than post-secondary education, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute,...
Pandemic regulations that left consumers few choices but to dine at home helped dramatically boost sales at Loblaw Co. Ltd. in 2020, according to a year-end...
Overview: After several attempts, the euro has pushed above $1.22, and the Australian dollar has surpassed $0.8000 as the greenback remains under broad pressure against the...
The following article was published by Future Travel Experience The testing programme is designed to explore the efficacy of antigen testing, compared with PCR tests in...
"Door Is Always Open": China Invites UN Rights Chief To Investigate Uighur Genocide Charge While vehemently rejecting widespread reports from the US and Western allies as well as...
TORONTO – Few images could inspire as much disgust as a bunch of fat-cat politicians laughing at the suggestion of pay cuts while hundreds of...
AG Hair could have waited out the pandemic but instead decided to lean into its entrepreneurial culture and make a sharp pivot The post How a...
The Canadian pharmaceutical market is the 10th largest in the world. What are the biggest pharma stocks on the TSX and TSXV? The post 5 Biggest Canadian...
Are you ready for PDAC? The annual convention runs this year from March 8 to 11, and it's going entirely online for the first time ever....
WINNIPEG – If only the federal government would put its full force behind the energy sector, as it does other critical sectors in the economy....
OTTAWA – The accommodation services subsector generated $23.6 billion in operating revenue in 2019, up 4.7% from 2018. Ontario (29.5%) accounted for the largest share of revenue, followed by...
CALGARY – Canada’s largest oil companies plan to use the St. Lawrence Seaway to ship crude oil into Ontario as a contingency plan in case Michigan Governor...
Montreal’s Lightspeed POS Inc. probably isn’t big enough to be a true bellwether for the economy, but its performance can likely tell us something about the...
Jake Trainor spent 12 years as a helicopter pilot with the 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron, a high-precision, high-intensity military unit based in Petawawa, Ont. It...
The COVID-19 pandemic and renewed public-health restrictions meant to contain it knocked Canadian employment back to summer levels in January, although an increase in total hours...
In January 2021, Canada shed over 200,000 jobs, mostly in Ontario and Quebec. This week on Down to Business, Craig Alexander, chief economist at Deloitte Canada,...
Telus Corp.’s venture arm invested in a tiny company in 2017 that was working on software to enable virtual doctor-patient consultations. Two years later, Telus chief...
The COVID-19 pandemic is fuelling trends that could have far-reaching effects on the Canadian labour market, including existential changes that might see the end of workaholism...
When Isaac Olowolafe Jr. was 15, his family moved from Toronto to nearby Woodbridge, Ont., where he recalls seeing what a tight-knit community could build: thriving...
WestJet said Thursday it is temporarily suspending flights to four Canadian destinations until June and blamed the government’s “increasingly restrictive” COVID policies for the disruption. ...
Speaking at a virtual conference on the state of the economy, Penny Wise, president of 3M Co.’s Canadian unit, hadn’t been given an opportunity to state...
When Jennifer Jackson talks about Black economic empowerment, the three Ws quickly come up: work, wages and wealth. They are only part of the equation, but...
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African-American to earn a PhD in economics, in 1944 observed that Black workers.