1. "I had a group, I was the singer, I was the leader," John Lennon said of The Quarry Men, the band that evolved into the Beatles. So, when Lennon considered the talented Paul McCartney as a potential bandmate, he had to choose between improving the group and holding on to power.
The last thought parents should have while holiday shopping is, "Will this toy hurt my child?" But this year, once again, those dark doubts are bound to creep in whenever shoppers read "Made in China" on packaging and product labels. Such worries have clouded the toy industry since 2007, when lead was found in the brightly coloured paint on an assortment of toys manufactured in China, at the same time as other toy lines with small magnets were identified as a choking hazard. Mattel and other companies yanked millions of products from store shelves, earning 2007 the moniker the Year of the Recall.
Two car bombs killed more than 150 people in Baghdad in late October, one of the worst attacks in years. Even so, British tour operator Geoff Hann has no plans to stop arranging trips to Iraq through his company, Hinterland Travel. "Bombings in Baghdad happen all the time," he says, somewhat dismissively.
TORONTO - Roxmark Mines Ltd (TSXV-RMK) said Friday it plans to amalgamate with Ontex Resources Ltd. (TSX:ONT) in an all-stock transaction to form a ...
MONTREAL - Prices for the latest hot digital gadgets have been falling, allowing consumers to trade up at lower prices, says the research firm ...
TORONTO - Emphasizing that government stimulus spending is a temporary measure, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the Conservative government doesn't plan to undertake ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next ...
MONTREAL - A $250-million loan between Canadian and U.S. subsidiaries of AbitibiBowater is forcing the company to juggle its corporate structure to avoid a ...
WILMINGTON, Del. - Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number ...
CALGARY - Agrium Inc.'s (TSX:AGU) reluctant U.S. takeover target, CF Industries Holdings Inc. (NYSE:CF), made headway in a hostile bid of its own Friday, ...
VANCOUVER, B.C. - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA) announced Friday that it has signed a satellite technology contract with the Russian Radio Research ...
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market was slightly lower Friday afternoon, led by energy sector declines as demand concerns and a rising U.S. dollar ...
OTTAWA - After hunkering down throughout most of the recession, Canadian businesses began lining up with consumers at the bankruptcy office in September, according ...
MONTREAL - Saputo (TSX:SAP) and Kraft have appealed a Federal Court ruling that upheld new federal cheese regulations.
The large cheese makers want the Federal ...
FRANKFURT, Germany - General Motors Co. said it expects to release a full restructuring plan for its Opel and Vauxhall operations in mid December, ...
MONTREAL - Transat A.T. (TSX:TRZ.B), a tour operator and charter airline company, is expanding its reach in France by teaming up with the country's ...
NEW YORK - Natural gas prices have dropped by more than 15 per cent in the past month as the country continues to sip ...
TORONTO - Ontario Power Generation Inc. had a $259-million profit in its latest quarter, although the provincial Crown corporation continued to feel the impact ...
Liar’s Poker author Michael Lewis has a great review in The New Republic of Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Lewis says as much about Buffett as he does about the book in his analysis. Hat tip to Paul Kedrosky for pointing to the review. Also worth a read: Canadian [...]
I had a conversation earlier today in Montreal with Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. (GE), who was pretty blunt in his assessment of the so-called Buy American provision in President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill. “I think it’s terrible,” Immelt said, before speaking at the International Economic Forum of the Americas here. [...]
This week I spoke to Tom Bradley, president of Steadyhand Investment Funds Inc., a Vancouver-based, mutual-fund group launched in April, 2007. He wanted to fill me in on what his funds were all about (I had inadvertently overlooked them in an article I did on low-fee funds awhile back). Normally, I tend to avoid actively managed [...]
The results of Cone’s 2009 Consumer New Media Study include two points that I found to be remarkable: “Forty-four percent of American new media users are searching for, sharing or discussing information about corporate responsibility (CR) efforts and programs…” “Sixty-two percent of users polled believe they can influence business decisions by voicing opinions via new media channels. ” While the [...]
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