The Canadian Chamber of Commerce wants businesses to start preparing for a potential COVID-19 pandemic, but not to panic. The advocacy group has published a guide to help companies, especially smaller ones, get ready for the possible spread of the respiratory illness through Canada. “After SARS [in 2003] big businesses, governments [and] other institutions all put in place…

U.S. stocks jumped Tuesday after the Federal Reserve made an emergency rate cut to help shield the economy from the impact from the virus outbreak. The Fed cut short-term rates by half a percentage point, the biggest cut in more than a decade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 172 points, or 0.6 per cent…

A woman with power of attorney who took tens of thousands of dollars from a 97-year-old woman with dementia had criminal charges against her withdrawn, in a case critics say exposes gaps in the justice and banking systems that leave the elderly and infirm vulnerable to financial abuse.  “There’s a reason it’s called power of…

It is becoming increasingly clear that the impact of COVID-19 on the economy is far more than a blip. Economists’ earlier hopes of a V-shaped recovery —  a sharp rise back to normal after a sharp decline — are fading fast as evidence increases that the global effects of the virus on consumers and businesses are widening. But just…

We’ve all heard the phrase, “They don’t make things like they used to.” Now a growing number of eco-minded Canadians are deciding that just won’t do. Coffee makers, lamps, toasters and kettles can often be fixed instead of tossed into the trash when they stop working. “A lot of things these days break quite easily,” says…

Work was expected to resume today on a natural gas pipeline in B.C. that has been at the centre of blockades disrupting both rail and road traffic in many parts of the country. A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement to acknowledge land title rights established more than 20 years…