Canadian Business News
CBJ Mar 12 - Shares of Transat AT Inc. fell 30 per cent after the company disclosed a higher-than-expected first-quarter loss and said it may lose money in the second quarter - normally its best.
The Montreal-based international tour operator, which owns the Air Transat airline ...
CBJ Mar 12 - An air-monitoring group has apologized to Prince George, B.C. residents at a public meeting for failing to retest for levels of a known carcinogen in their air, but they still can't explain why the retesting was never done. PGAIR received test ...
CBJ Mar 11 - The Chalk River isotope reactor is set to start up in mid-May at the earliest, meaning it won't produce isotopes until June. The reactor will have been down at least a year since a heavy water leak was discovered in May ...
CBJ Mar 11 - SaskTel outlined plans to invest $239 million in communication network improvements, which will enable the company to provide high-speed Internet service to all areas of the province by the end of 2010.
Among the highlights of this year's capital investment program is ...
CBJ Mar 10 - Canada's Big Five banks are saw profits up more than 70 per cent in their first-quarter earnings season.
Bank of Nova Scotia was the last of the big banks to report yesterday, announcing higher profits and revenues from strong domestic operations and ...
CBJ Mar 10 - Easton-Bell Sports, Inc.—a leading designer, developer and marketer of innovative sports equipment and accessories— announced that Chris Zimmerman has been hired as President of Easton Sports, effective immediately. The former Vancouver Canucks President and CEO will lead a unified Easton Sports ...
CBJ Mar 9 - WestJet Airlines launched a loyalty program yesterday, hoping to expand market reach and maintain customers. Passengers can now earn WestJet "dollars" if they sign up for its credit card program with Royal Bank of Canada and MasterCard Inc, or through the ...
CBJ Mar 9 - Mexican beverage company FEMSA plans to buy Coca-Cola bottling plants in Canada, the Mexican daily Excelsior reported, but analysts are not sure about its next international expansion move. Excelsior columnist Dario Celis said FEMSA has decided to tap the Canadian market, ...
CBJ Mar 8 - The new harmonized sales tax in British Columbia will lead to the creation of 113,000 jobs within the next decade, a government-commissioned report has found.
"The tax reforms about to be implemented in British Columbia will have a profound effect on capital ...
CBJ Mar 8 - federal government wants to liberalize foreign investment rules in Canada's uranium sector, something that the industry supports if the conditions are right. The government said yesterday it will "ensure that unnecessary regulation does not inhibit the growth of Canada's uranium mining ...
