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OTTAWA ? The Canadian government is pushing for changes in the dual-class share structure of embattled aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Inc. in return for possible financial aid, officials acquainted with the plans said. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, which is reviewing a request by Bombardier to assist fund the development of its C Series jet, is concerned about the company’s corporate ...

The bass thump of the dance tune pounds through La Socit, a restaurant of Toronto nightclub king Charles Khabouth, who inside a flourish of kitsch has recreated a 19th century Paris bistro, complete with stained glass ceiling, dark wood, white tile floors and art nouveau dcor, in a 1960s poured concrete building. Two women confer inside a corner booth. Younger ...

Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who made and lost fortunes targeting some of the largest U.S. explorers over the past 40 years, has cashed out because the worst crude market downturn in decades drags on. Pickens who has sold all his oil holdings and is waiting for the best moment to get back in, he said Thursday within an interview ...

Many hands happen to be wrung in recent years about the countless Canadians who choose to save money by flying out of U.S. border airports. Senate committees happen to be struck to examine the problem, while stakeholders point fingers at each other over who’s to blame. As it happens the solution was breathtakingly simple: a lesser loonie. Don’t let the low loonie clip ...

Airlines in Canada and round the world are using discounted airfares to stimulate demand, trading fuller planes for lower yields as the economy weakens. Air Canada and WestJet Airlines Ltd. reported strong load factors in January, with both airlines filling 80.1 percent of their available seat capacity recently. But strong load factors don’t necessarily mean a powerful bottom line when ...

If nothing else, opinion on extending the idea of flow-through shares to the technology/bio-technology sector – a theme that was the subject of a current column – is mixed. Here would be the comments in one reader who likes the concept that, if implemented provides capital to companies and tax breaks to investors C with the hope being that the ...

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 ...