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  • Major wireless carriers now active on Toronto's subway network after months of talks

    October 02, 2023 - 1:17 PM

    TORONTO - More than a decade after embarking on a plan to offer wireless service on the Toronto subway, the TTC has joined the global ranks of transit systems where riders can make phone calls, send text messages or browse the web underground — regardless of their mobile carrier.

  • TD rolls out accessibility tool to ease web browsing for people with disabilities

    September 27, 2023 - 4:00 AM

    TORONTO - Encountering a pop-up video that plays automatically may be a mere irritant to most while browsing the web, but for Susan Santola, the consequences could be far more dire.

  • More than 130 countries reach deal on corporate minimum tax

    October 11, 2021 - 2:26 PM

    FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — More than 130 countries have agreed on sweeping changes to how big global companies are taxed, including a 15% minimum corporate rate designed to deter multinationals from stashing profits in low-tax countries.

  • Federal program for women entrepreneurs urged to do more to help firms scale up

    March 08, 2019 - 1:59 PM

    OTTAWA - The Trudeau government marked International Women's Day on Friday by touting its collection of measures designed to support — and boost the number of — female entrepreneurs.

  • Attempt to break into Democratic Party voter data thwarted

    August 22, 2018 - 3:35 PM

    CHICAGO - An attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee's massive voter database has been thwarted, a party official said Wednesday, two years after Russian operatives sent the party into disarray by hacking into its computers and facilitating the release of tens of thousands of emails amid the presidential election.

  • Fashion firms upend design routine to focus on speed, trends

    July 17, 2018 - 12:14 PM

    NEW YORK - Prototypes? Passe. Fashion company Betabrand saw that knitwear was a hot style in sneakers and wanted to quickly jump on the trend for dressier shoes. It put a poll up on its website asking shoppers what style they liked, and based on that had a shoe for sale online in just one week.

  • Oakville, Ont., council votes to give heritage status for Glen Abbey

    August 22, 2017 - 5:41 AM

    TORONTO - Glen Abbey, one of Canada's most famous golf courses, received some protection from potential redevelopment into a residential and commercial complex on Monday night.

  • Pick for Medicare post faces questions on Indiana contracts

    February 15, 2017 - 6:45 AM

    INDIANAPOLIS - President Donald Trump's pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice-President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana's governor, a post she maintained amid a web of business arrangements — including one that ethics experts say conflicted with her public duties.

  • In a sign of broader ambitions, Facebook opens hardware lab

    August 03, 2016 - 9:45 AM

    MENLO PARK, Calif. - Facebook built its fortune on the internet, that non-physical space where people share updates and digital videos with friends. But deep inside its Silicon Valley headquarters, engineers have stocked a new lab with computerized lathes, industrial mills and tools for making physical goods.

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  • 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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