Image credit: Hans via pixabay.com Sharon Voss, Realtor and president of the Orlando Regional Realtor Association, recently spelled out three reasons why she believes this fall could be a great time to buy a home in an article in HousingWire. According to Voss, those who buy in fall are likely to face less competition – […]
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WOW’s $99 Iceland Flights Challenge Established Airlines
The bargain basement airline business is littered with failures. But that doesn’t frighten WOW’s Icelandic founder Skúli Mogensen, who started the airline with a personal fortune he made in Montreal. Mogensen says his business represents the future and it is the establishment airlines who should worry. That may depend on whether WOW, which will begin next May by offering […]
Uber Vs. the World, How Cities Are Dealing With Ride-hailing Technology
“Uber is so big and so pervasive, it’s like the internet of transportation,” says John-Kurt Pliniussen of Queen’s University’s School of Business. Even in the face of negative headlines about sexual assaults, concerns over data privacy, protests from taxi drivers, raids on its offices and outright bans, the California-based ride-hailing company continues to grow. Toronto city council asked staff to develop new rules to […]
Payments To Doctors In Canada Hit $24B In 2014
Provincial and territorial governments paid out a total of $24.1 billion to physicians in 2013-2014, a nearly six-per-cent increase from the year before, according to the latest data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. While payments to physicians varied across the country, Canadian doctors’ average earnings before expenses were nearly $336,000 last year, […]
DiCaprio’s move to sell oil stocks may affect Canada
The announcement that Leonardo DiCaprio is throwing his star power behind fossil fuel divestment caused a debate at the CBC business unit this week. The movie star, who recently played a cutthroat market manipulator in Wolf of Wall Street, has a different attitude in handling his own investments. He’s a well-known environmentalist who was an early adopter of […]
