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John Thornton looks on Barrick Gold Corp. like a patient finally ready for discharge from hospital and going to abandon the fast living that landed it there. Barrick Gold Corp has returned on top as Canada’s best-performing stock and also the world’s most valuable gold company Barrick Gold Corp. has surged to become Canada’s best-performing stock like a two-month rally ...

In early February, the Canadian Federation of scholars (CFS) released a research document. It determined, towards the surprise of nobody, that it’s within the public’s interest for the authorities at hand students billions of dollars more each year. One demand is a doubling in funding for that Youth Employment Strategy, which would cost $330 million per year. (When the CFS’s ...

OTTAWA – The financial institution of Canada is issuing a warning about email and social media scams which are claiming in the future from the bank. Canada’s central bank says the scams are utilizing its logos and letterhead without authorization and misrepresenting it. The Bank of Canada says it does not accept deposits from individuals or on behalf of them, ...

Electric car sales are starting to obtain traction. Analytically, the numbers are showing growth. However, you have no need for a spreadsheet to determine the popularity. Cars built by Tesla, BMW yet others are turning heads at street corners C and turning investor sentiment too. So, Arthur’s question was unsurprising. And it was exactly the same question that is simmering ...

Hunter Harrison, the veteran leader of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., made $19.9 million in 2015 – a six per cent increase even as the business’s stock price fell 22 per cent. CP said the increase in Harrison’s total compensation was due to the fact that he’s paid in U.S. dollars. If the exchange rate had held steady from 2014, his ...

Canada’s so-called “second-hand economy,” typified by sales of goods on consumer websites for example Kijiji and Craigslist, may be worth $28 billion, according to a new report. “Canadians granted a second life to 24.9 million more products this year over this past year, for a total of just one.85 billion objects,” according to the annual Kijiji Second-Hand Economy Index published ...

OTTAWA – It’s safe to say many Canadians were glad to see the back of 2015. There was a mini-recession, fuelled with a caving oil sector and pushed deeper by weak business investment, along with sagging exports and an equally worrying decline in imports – all resulting in aggressive cuts in the country’s long-stagnant key lending rate. That also kept ...

Canadian mining companies are putting together an excellent winning streak in international arbitration cases against foreign governments. But their record of collecting on those awards is much more mixed. Late a week ago, a tiny firm called Gold Reserve Inc. shocked many onlookers by reaching a potentially favourable settlement with the Venezuelan government, so it has been battling in the ...