Chrysler Canada Inc has asked the Canadian and Ontario governments for C$1 billion in financial assistance to help it through the global economic crisis, making it the first Canadian automaker to specify how much it is seeking, the Globe and Mail reported on Thursday.
Canada's telecoms watchdog has sided with BCE Inc in letting the company slow down certain file-sharing traffic on wholesale networks it leases to smaller, independent service providers.
Top fertilizer producers Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and Agrium Inc said on Thursday they are eyeing acquisitions as prices for target companies fall.
Bombardier Inc said on Thursday it had signed a contract with Ethiopian Airlines for eight turboprop aircraft worth about $242 million.
Teck Cominco said on Thursday that it would slash spending, sell assets, withdraw from the Petaquilla copper project in Panama and suspend dividend payments under a sweeping plan to cut debt from its acquisition of Fording Canadian Coal Trust.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index fell nearly 6 percent on Thursday morning to its lowest level since December 2003 as the price of oil slid and the financials group was weighed down by an earnings warning from Toronto-Dominion Bank .
The battle between open source and proprietary software is something that is of real interest, and not just in terms of the $1trillion market that it represents.
Tom Bloch walked away from the corporate boardroom and into an urban classroom in 1995. Today he’s still teaching middle school math at the charter school he helped found.
Serial Canadian entrepreneur Suneet S Tuli explains his plans to bring fast and free internet to the developing world.
Peter Fusaro, the Chairman of Global Change Associates, is a recognized “thought leader” on energy and environmental markets and bestselling author of What Went Wrong at Enron. Exec catches up with this man on the move
Kuala Lumpur forms the most industrialized city in Malaysia. Exec finds out how it has become a metropolitan center.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:11 AM