The “Big Five” Canadian banks include Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Canada Trust), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Are there other viable options?
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The best GIC rates in Canada for 2024 + MORE Sep 17th
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The best GIC rates in Canada for 2025 + MORE Dec 2nd
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Canadian banks, insurance firms owe $1.2B in employee vacation pay, class actions allege - CBC.ca + MORE Mar 4th
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Drip, drip, drip: Why Canadians pay fees for everything Jan 3rd
When Xianjun Geng checked into his San Francisco hotel one evening a few years ago, he thought he’d gotten a great deal. He’d booked the room on a discount-hotel website and had driven down the Pacific Coast from Seattle, then his home, to the city by the bay. “It was a fantastic price. I was.... More »
A New Year Rate Hike + MORE Jan 8th
It has been a busy start to the new year – mortgage rates are up, stock markets are down, and that holiday credit card bill is looming. Is your wallet feeling the pressure yet? Start your year off with our top tips for paying holiday debt off fast, and catch up on this week’s breaking mortg.... More »
Canadian Lenders Fret About Apple Pay
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As talks heat up between Canada’s six biggest banks and Apple Inc. about launching Apple Pay north of the border, lenders here fret the mobile-payments service could deliver a blow to their credit-card revenues,
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After Alps crash, some experts ponder flights without pilots
NEW YORK (AP) — To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots.
That radical idea is decades away, if it ever becomes a reality. But following the intentional crashing of Germanwings Flight 9525 by the co-pilot, a long-running debate over autonomous jets is resurfacing. At the very least, some have suggested allowing authorities on the ground to take control of a plane if there is a rogue pilot in the cockpit.
The head of Germany’s air traffic control agency on Wednesday became the latest to raise such a prospect.
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Why banks made more money last quarter
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street and Main Street gave banks a boost last quarter.
Fees from corporate mergers and commissions from trading fueled profits at big financial firms. But average Americans also helped by taking out more home loans and paying off their debts.
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Google shaking up search recommendations on smartphones
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is about to change the way its influential search engine recommends websites on smartphones in a shift that’s expected to sway where millions of people shop, eat and find information…
After Alps crash, some experts ponder flights without pilots
NEW YORK (AP) — To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots.
That radical idea is decades away, if it ever becomes a reality. But following the intentional crashing of Germanwings Flight 9525 by the co-pilot, a long-running debate over autonomous jets is resurfacing. At the very least, some have suggested allowing authorities on the ground to take control of a plane if there is a rogue pilot in the cockpit.
The head of Germany’s air traffic control agency on Wednesday became the latest to raise such a prospect.
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Why banks made more money last quarter
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street and Main Street gave banks a boost last quarter.
Fees from corporate mergers and commissions from trading fueled profits at big financial firms. But average Americans also helped by taking out more home loans and paying off their debts.
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Google shaking up search recommendations on smartphones
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is about to change the way its influential search engine recommends websites on smartphones in a shift that’s expected to sway where millions of people shop, eat and find information…
