The “Big Five” Canadian banks offer investment funds and 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). Let’s explore the best place for you to invest.
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Understanding Bitcoin and the frenzy behind the digital currency + MORE Dec 8th
CALGARY _ The bitcoin frenzy shows no sign of letting up, with the price of the digital currency topping US$17,000 Friday and bitcoin futures set to start trading on Sunday. Here’s a look at what bitcoin is and why there’s so much excitement around it.
So what is bitcoin?
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Smart financial decisions small business owners should make now Jul 27th
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Rule number one of being an entrepreneur: When things get tough, keep going. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the surface many worst-case scenarios for small business owners. They’ve lost revenue, laid off staff, and some have even had to close their business permane.... More »
BHP trying to acquire Anglo American, threatening Teck takeover - The Globe and Mail Nov 23rd
BHP trying to acquire Anglo American, threatening Teck takeover The Globe and MailBHP BHP Drops Anglo American Tie-Up Plan, Canva’s IPO plans: Australia Briefing Bloomberg.comMining giant BHP makes renewed takeover bid for rival Anglo American, source says CNBCBHP .... More »
North Korea's nuclear pledge adds momentum to South's preparations for summit - Reuters Canada Apr 22nd
Reuters CanadaNorth Korea's nuclear pledge adds momentum to South's preparations for summitReuters CanadaSEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's preparations for its first summit with North Korea in more than a decade are in full swing this week, officials said on Sunday, a day after the Nort.... More »
Red Hat stock up 47% after $34B US takeover by IBM Oct 29th
Shares of Red Hat skyrocketed 47 per cent at the opening of trading in New York Monday after IBM, in the biggest acquisition of its 100-year history, acquired the software company..... More »
Murdochs warn U.K. a delay to Sky-Fox deal could hit inward investment
– theglobeandmail.com
Britain’s media secretary said she was persuaded deal could give Murdochs too much influence over media
Kinder Morgan Canada is facing mounting pressure to detail its plans for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion when it releases its first earnings report Wednesday since going public.
Canada’s new real estate war
– macleans.ca
The Apple Self Storage building on Adelaide street west in Toronto, ON. (Photograph by Cole Garside)The basement, wrote the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space, an architectural treatise, “is first and foremost the dark entity of the house, the one that partakes of subterranean forces. When we dream there, we are in harmony with the irrationality of the depths.”
Imagine what Bachelard might say we dream of when we dream in our self-storage lockers, the rectangular, padlocked, infinitely uniform spaces where we are increasingly stowing our things.
Self-storage is booming in Canada. Americans enjoy more self-storage space per capita than anybody—nine sq. feet—whereas Canadians lag at two. In that great discrepancy, the domestic industry senses room for growth.
Industry insiders are monitoring the development of almost three dozen new sites in and around Toronto. “That’s just over two million sq. feet of new storage,” says Dave Allan, business development manager at Aurora, Ont…
