TORONTO — Bank of Montreal says it’s moving ahead with plans to open more than 130 bank branches in California and 15 in Arizona over the next five years as it looks to expand into growing communities in the western United States. The move comes after the bank announced in October it was selling 138 […]
MONTREAL — Strong winds are putting electrical grids to the test across Central Canada and the Maritimes. Nearly 310,000 customers were knocked off the grid in Quebec this morning, with environment Canada forecasting winds as strong as 90 kilometres an hour in parts of the province. The largest outages were in the Laurentians, Lanaudière and […]
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she agrees with Prime Minister Mark Carney that the U.S. attack on Iran violates international law — and so does Iran’s blockade of the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping route. Anand says Canada is looking at how it can support Gulf countries being attacked by Iran as […]
For Chloe Ng, catching up on bills or researching a potential career change after an eight-hour work day felt like drudgery — often leading to procrastination instead. With a growing to-do list, Ng began searching the internet for a solution to her persistent procrastination and landed on an article about what some are calling “admin […]
TORONTO — A new report suggests two-thirds of Canadians say they still dream of owning a home despite a challenging market. RBC’s spring home ownership poll shows 67 per cent of respondents say they want to buy a home, up from 62 per cent last year, while 32 per cent expect to purchase a house […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — Top European Union officials said Tuesday they have offered to pay Ukraine to repair a damaged pipeline meant to carry crude oil to Hungary, in a bid to persuade the government in Budapest to lift its veto on a massive aid package to the war-wracked country. Ukraine and Hungary have been locked […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Tuesday that it has started offering faster U.S. deliveries of selected products for a fee, including pantry staples, clothing, over-the-counter medications, cleaning supplies and electronics. The e-commerce colossus said customers in more than 2,000 cities, towns and suburban areas can now choose to have orders from its speedy-shipment inventory […]
A court challenge of Nova Scotia’s ban on travel in the woods was scheduled to get underway on Tuesday. That ban was ordered in early August 2025, as the province dealt with wildfires and extreme dry conditions led to concerns about more wildfires starting. Announcing the ban, along with a fine of more than $25,000 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions more Americans will likely donate to nonprofits following changes in tax laws passed by Congress last summer, but those changes will also likely reduce the overall amount of money given to charity, according to new research. The report from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy published Tuesday reflects […]
A spring storm is bringing lots of rain to Halifax and much of Nova Scotia, along with high wind gusts and causing outages around the province. As of 9:30 a.m., Nova Scotia Power’s outage map is showing more than 28,000 power outages provincewide. At this hour, those outages include around 4,700 outages over a large […]