The Aggravating Factors That Could Dampen A Summer Economic Rebound - [2021-06-08 R7Twpu]

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Apple takes on Zoom, opens FaceTime video chat software to Windows, Android - Financial Post: Reuters


Apple takes on Zoom, opens FaceTime video chat software to Windows, Android Financial Post

Can't afford a house in the city? Don't ask the government for help: Ted Rechtshaffen


Sometimes letting go of the past can be very hard. I miss having open fields all over northeast and northwest Toronto. I miss going to a Blue Jays game for $2 (of course, now I just miss going at any price). I miss the Leafs winning the Stanley Cu…

The kids are not alright: As summer jobs season opens, many businesses are still closed: Kelsey Rolfe


Elaine Bolen considers herself “very, very lucky” to have found a summer co-op — after all, it took almost 70 applications. The 20-year-old business management student at Ryerson University in Toronto, who’s working in sales and marketing at a fur…

WELL Health to buy MyHealth in deal that will create Canada's largest network of private-sector medical clinics: Geoffrey Morgan


WELL Health Technologies Corp. is spending $206 million to acquire Toronto-based MyHealth Centres in a deal that will create the largest private-sector-owned network of medical clinics in Canada. Vancouver-based WELL Health owns an extensive netwo…

Air Canada executives to return bonuses after government aid outcry: Air Canada


After getting access to $5.9 billion in government help, the airline gave out $10 million in bonuses

Why agriculture, not AI, will secure Canada's place in the post-pandemic world order: Kevin Carmichael


Canada could yet breed a stable of unicorns that shows the wild success of Shopify Inc. isn’t a fluke, but a smart bettor wouldn’t put money on it. There’s too much risk, history argues against it and the landscape is already dominated by better players. It w…

Bye-bye four-year degree. Canadian companies want workers faster: Bianca Bharti


Last summer, Marcos Chumacero, an out-of-work bar manager, lolled about his downtown Toronto apartment as the world slowed to a crawl and the federal government went on COVID-19 damage control. “Like everyone else in my industry, I was collecting …

Chrystia Freeland has the blueprint to revolutionize Canadian banking — so let's use it: Kevin Carmichael


Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has in her possession a blueprint that could revolutionize financial services. Earlier this spring, Freeland received recommendations from a group of Bay Street operatives handpicked by the Prime Minister Justin …

The aggravating factors that could dampen a summer economic rebound: Bianca Bharti


The release of key economic data confirmed the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis went into retreat this spring as provinces tightened lockdown measures to combat a third wave of infections. But rather than get hung up on the bad news, many economi…

Postmortem: Canada is buying too much house: Kevin Carmichael


Financial Post’s economics editor Kevin Carmichael unpacks the week in the economy. Freeland’s ‘guardrails’ June 4 was Jobs Day in Canada and the United States , when the wonkies…


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