It’s Friday morning at a Tim Hortons in downtown Toronto. The place is hopping with customers eager to get their caffeine fix. Yes, Canada loves its coffee, more so than most other countries in the world. Out of 80 countries, Canada ranked No. 1 in 2015 when tallying up how many litres of coffee per capita […]
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Liberals stay put on stock options, small business taxes in budget 2016
OTTAWA—Canada’s high-tech sector won a major victory Tuesday as the Liberal government unexpectedly dropped plans that would have limited the use of stock options as an incentive to recruit and retain top talent. “I heard from many small business start-ups who use stock options as a legitimate tool to attract talent,” said federal Finance Minister […]
Oil glut will last into 2017 at least, IEA says
The current glut of cheap oil will keep prices low into next year in 2017 at least, forecasters at the International Energy Agency said Monday. This time last year, the Paris-based IEA was forecasting a “relatively swift” bounce back for oil prices that were in the $50 US range, after having fallen by 50 per […]
