WASHINGTON – U.S. employment gains slowed more than expected in January because the boost to hiring from unseasonably mild weather faded, but surging wages as well as an unemployment rate at an eight-year low suggested the labour market recovery remains firm. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 151,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate what food was in 4.9 per cent, ...

Last year Michael Binnion considered selling his company’s assets to pay attention to its core play in Alberta, however changed his mind as oil prices kept plumbing new lows. “In retrospect we actually wished we had sold,” the CEO of Questerre Energy Inc. said last week. “It’s hard for me to envision many people saying ‘I would like to sell ...

Americans will expend more money visiting Canada this season than any reason for more than a decade as a low loonie makes heading north more appealing. Total visits in the U.S. to Canada were already up more than 1.6 million in the first 11 months compared with the year before, said TD Economics inside a new report. The bank expects ...

Charlie Stenger, a currency-broker-turned-recruiter, has witnessed it all. One fired trader wept in the office. Another admitted he hadn’t told his wife he was unemployed, and left the home every day in a suit to sneak off to a coffee shop. There are the delusional guys, who carefully explain how they are not thinking about jobs that don’t pay as ...

TORONTO – Canadian egg farmers say they’ll meet restaurants’ growing interest in cage-free eggs even though conventional housing for hens will account for over fifty percent of production for at least eight more years. Egg Farmers of Canada announced Friday that it is members, representing more than 1,000 farms, will give over fifty percent of the eggs from hens in ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., seeking to recover from an E. coli crisis that dragged down sales and profit, will start a course aimed at helping suppliers maintain food-safety standards. Chipotle is spending around $10 million to finance your time and effort, co-Chief Executive Officer Steve Ells said throughout a ending up in employees on Monday. The cash will be accustomed ...

Here’s an investing rule for you: Be skeptical of pearls of wisdom. Any “pearl” that can be summed up in six words or less might have the advantage of making life easier, but often that’s about it, and following these bits of the usual understanding too closely can be a recipe for disappointment. How to conquer rate of interest uncertainty ...

REGINA – The Saskatchewan government is proposing to possess gas and oil workers who’ve lost their jobs clean up abandoned wells. Premier Brad Wall says this program is needed stimulate employment within the oil-and-gas sector by accelerating cleanup of wells no longer capable of production. Wall says it would accelerate decommissioning and reclamation of just one,000 non-producing wells over the ...