CANADA

By Matthew Horwood   A prolonged rail shutdown could have major impact on food prices and even lead to empty shelves in grocery stores, food industry experts say. “As soon…

Trains could be moving again ‘within days,’ minister says. By Omid Ghoreishi   The federal government is intervening in the railway labour dispute to force arbitration and have the trains…

By Chandra Philip   Canada’s goal of reducing carbon emissions cannot be achieved without relying on China, a new energy industry report says. The key to success is copper, an…

By Chandra Philip   An Ontario arbitrator has awarded termination and severance pay to 40 Toronto health-care workers who were fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccination. Arbitrator John Stout made the…

By John Robson Commentary A friend’s mother was fond of saying there’s no good way to do a bad thing, and no bad time to do a good one. It’s…

By Matthew Horwood When the markets took a plunge on Aug. 5, it was partly attributed to the Bank of Japan’s recent decision to raise its key interest rate to…

By Peter Menzies  Commentary Once tools are available to suppress, punish, and intimidate speech, there is no shortage of people willing to use them. Of that there was perhaps no…

By Daniel Rios  Commentary Thousands of books have been written on personal finance, financial planning, investments, debt management, and the topic of money in general. Upon reading such books, a…

By Barry W. Bussey  Commentary Since 2016, when Jordan Peterson criticized amendments to Canada’s Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to include “gender identity and expression” as prohibited grounds…

By Chandra Philip Health Canada says the risk to Canadians from the latest version of monkeypox or mpox remains low, even after the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a…