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  • Local businesses preparing for 'more mellow' TIFF as Hollywood strikes continue

    September 04, 2023 - 5:00 AM

    TORONTO - When the Toronto International Film Festival rolls around each year, few people are as busy as Charles Khabouth.

  • Missing your favourite lunch spot? How food courts are emerging from the pandemic

    January 22, 2023 - 7:00 AM

    TORONTO - As workers in Toronto's Financial District scurry through the Brookfield Place food court on their lunch breaks, the darkened Starbucks at the space's far end looms large.

  • 'Like a yo-yo:' Disappointment for Red Deer businesses after UCP scraps meeting

    March 25, 2022 - 12:56 PM

    RED DEER, Alta. - The owners of a café in Red Deer, Alta., spent $1,500 on extra stock anticipating a surge in business from the United Conservative Party's leadership review next month, but they and other business operators in the city had their hopes dashed when the in-person meeting was scrapped this week.

  • In time for summer, Europe sees dramatic fall in virus cases

    May 28, 2021 - 11:47 PM

    ROME (AP) — When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of 3,500, the annual kitsch fest confirmed that Europe was returning to a semblance of normalcy that was unthinkable even a few weeks ago.

  • Dutch hospital airlifts patients to Germany amid virus surge

    October 23, 2020 - 4:02 PM

    ALMERE, Netherlands - A bright yellow helicopter rose into a blue sky Friday carrying a COVID-19 patient from the Netherlands to a German intensive care unit, the first such international airlift since the pandemic first threatened to swamp Dutch hospitals in the spring.

  • The Latest: New Mexico loses ground in COVID-19 spread fight

    October 09, 2020 - 7:29 PM

    SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico is losing ground in efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 as newly reported daily infections hit a record of 488 cases.

  • Unemployment marches higher in Europe as pandemic grinds on

    October 01, 2020 - 1:14 PM

    FRANKFURT - Unemployment rose for a fifth straight month in Europe in August and is expected to grow further amid concern that extensive government support programs won't be able keep many businesses hit by coronavirus restrictions afloat forever.

  • Job market remains grim even as U.S. tentatively reopens

    May 21, 2020 - 1:11 PM

    WASHINGTON - Signs of renewed business activity are surfacing across the country as states gradually reopen economies and some businesses call a portion of their laid-off staffers back to work. Yet with millions more Americans seeking unemployment aid last week, the U.S. job market remains as bleak as it's been in decades.

  • NYC Chinese eatery heats up cultural appropriation debate

    April 12, 2019 - 2:06 PM

    A New York City restaurant owner who touted her "clean" American-Chinese cuisine and derided Chinese dishes as swimming in "globs of processed butter," sodium and MSG is renewing the long-simmering debate about stereotyping and cultural appropriation in the restaurant world.

  • Toronto shooting won't deter visitors, but will spark festival safety discussions

    July 24, 2018 - 1:58 PM

    TORONTO - About twenty-four hours after a shooting left two dead and a dozen injured in Toronto's bustling Danforth neighbourhood, scores of pedestrians strolled the area, dined on restaurant patios and stopped in at mom-and-pop shops.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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