Sep 24 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — On the hunt for a rental home in Calgary over the last six weeks, Marissa Giesinger and her boyfriend trawled through listings morning, noon and night, only to find most come along with dozens of applications and a steep price tag. As an adde...
Sep 19 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Canada's shrinking flyer industry and the slew of businesses who rely on it for advertising were dealt another blow last week when one of Ontario's most prominent media conglomerates stopped printing 70 community newspapers and announced the ...
Sep 15 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — An organization representing more than 150 Canadian tech companies is calling on the country to take a sensitive but speedy approach to artificial intelligence. In a report released Friday, the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) argues the ...
Sep 15 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — An organization representing more than 150 Canadian tech companies is calling on the country to take a sensitive but speedy approach to artificial intelligence. In a report released Friday, the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) argues the ...
Sep 11 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — In the halls of Parliament, TikTok is banned from civil servants' phones as the government grapples with allegations of foreign interference. But on Canada's red carpets and in sports arenas, the popular social media platform is still welcome...
Sep 6 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — The Greater Toronto Area housing market saw home sales and prices barely shift between July and August, but the leader of the region's housing board is expecting more volatility on the way. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board revealed Wedn...
Sep 4 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — When the Toronto International Film Festival rolls around each year, few people are as busy as Charles Khabouth. The nightlife impresario owns the Bisha Hotel and more than a dozen restaurants and clubs where the likes of Margot Robbie, Georg...
Sep 2 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Two of the e-commerce world’s biggest rivals have brokered a surprise deal helping their merchants better take advantage of one another’s offerings. Shopify Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday evening that they will soon begin helpin...
Aug 30 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — When Indigo Books & Music Inc. opens the doors to its forthcoming location in downtown Toronto's Well building this September, shoppers will immediately realize the space is more than a bookstore. A blue Citroën truck dating back to the 1...
Aug 25 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Canadians soon won't find Kleenex tissues on store shelves. The Kleenex consumer facial tissue business is leaving Canada this month, U.S. manufacturer Kimberly-Clark said in a statement Friday. Todd Fisher, the company's Canadian vice-presid...
Aug 25 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Gina Izumi was in her first corporate job out of university and told a male colleague her boyfriend enjoyed hitting the links. If Izumi stayed with him, her colleague said jokingly, Izumi would become a "golf widow" — spending her weekends al...
Aug 24 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Savannah Dasilva was searching for a budgeting method she could stick to for years to come. The Toronto student dabbled with Excel spreadsheets, but they got confusing fast, and budgeting apps, which never seemed to do the trick. She even sou...
Aug 22 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay hopes to capture customer interest with a revamped loyalty program that includes a new app and personalized offers. The Toronto-based department store chain said Tuesday that the changes to its rewards offering are meant to refre...
Aug 17 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Canadian LinkedIn users wanting to ensure the public that they're the real deal now have another method of verifying their online/digital identity: government identification. The Microsoft-owned platform announced Thursday that it is giving i...
Aug 8 2023 — Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Restaurant Brands International Inc. says it delivered double-digit sales growth in its latest quarter amid higher revenues at Tim Hortons and Burger King, but its executive chairman wants more to be done to drive store-level profitability. "...