TORONTO — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is looking into the rates for phone calls at correctional facilities across the country, spurred by high long-distance charges that families of inmates at Ontario jails had to pay for years. A proposed class-action lawsuit against the province and Bell, which ran the phone system in the […]
OTTAWA — The country’s health ministers are wrapping up two days of meetings in Halifax today with a busy agenda. The in-person talks come as health systems are strained and millions of Canadians don’t have a family doctor. Ministers are set to talk about health data, mental health and substance use and pharmaceuticals, among other […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economy stagnated at the end of last year as former growth engine Germany floundered to the end of a second straight year of shrinking output, officials said Thursday. Gross domestic product was flat with a zero increase in the final quarter of 2024 in the 20-nation eurozone, EU statistics agency […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The pitch from Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is simple: Putting limits on lawsuits will halt rising insurance costs. The reality, though, is more complicated. Changes could reduce liability insurance costs for businesses and commercial property owners. The evidence is mixed on whether it would drive large premium reductions for car and other […]
AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — A New York food bank was offered a huge donation of fresh fish this month — but it came with a catch. LocalCoho, a soon-to-close salmon farm in the small upstate city of Auburn, wanted to give 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) of coho salmon to the Food Bank of Central New […]
Bond yields dipped Thursday after the Fed’s midweek monetary policy decision did little to shift the market’s interest rate expectations.
SoftBank reportedly is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI and become the ChatGPT creator’s largest investor.
ServiceNow’s CFO said the forecast for subscription revenue is prudent. And one analyst cheered the company’s momentum with large deals.
Microsoft Corp. investors focused on the company’s disappointing revenue of its Azure cloud business on Wednesday, but they should also be looking at another number indicative of future growth: bookings. The software giant told Wall Street in its fiscal third-quarter earnings that revenue at Azure grew 31%, just below estimates, but also said that future […]
The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates as the disinflationary process continues amid worries about the strength of the economy.