Monthly Archives: January 2026

High-end department store conglomerate Saks Global filed for bankruptcy protection late on Tuesday, in one of the largest retail collapses since the pandemic. It comes barely a year after a deal that brought Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus under the same … Continue reading →

In Alberta, there is excitement and hesitation from businesses and energy workers at the potential opportunity ahead in Venezuela.

McDonald’s Canada will freeze the price of a small cup of coffee at $1 for at least a year and drop the price of its McValue meals to $5 for the same duration, its CEO announced on Tuesday.

Leaders of central banks from around the world, including Canada’s Tiff Macklem, have lined up in support of U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, issuing an unprecedented statement of solidarity after the Trump administration threatened him with a criminal indictment.

The federal privacy watchdog has found Staples Canada did not fully remove personal information from returned laptops that it later resold.

An earthquake which struck near the Alaska-Yukon border last month has revealed a fault line hidden beneath ice, drawing international research interest.

Asking rents in Canada fell 2.3 per cent year-over-year in December to an average of $2,060, marking a full calendar year of declines as prices reached their lowest level in 30 months.

U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says that the Trump administration had threatened him with a criminal indictment and served grand jury subpoenas over ​congressional testimony he gave last summer regarding a Fed building renovation project.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.

Moscow used its hypersonic ‘Oreshnik ‘missile to target critical infrastructure near Lviv in western Ukraine. Its use of the missile is being seen as more about political messaging, than battlefield strategy.