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Manulife Financial Corp.’s chief executive Roy Gori, who surprised some investors with an earlier-than-expected retirement announcement this week, says he never wanted to stay in the job so long that people started wondering why he just wouldn’t leave.

News of Donald Trump’s election win sent Bitcoin soaring to record highs after he rebranded himself as a pro-crypto candidate on the campaign trail.

FIFA has signed its long-time sponsor AB InBev to a Club World Cup deal that will promote the Budweiser and Michelob Ultra brands at the tournament in the United States next year

The federal government has apologized for its role in the killing of sled dogs in Nunavik between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s.

The trillion-dollar question these days is where the huge sums of money needed to address climate change are going to come from, especially for developing countries.

Justin Trudeau has drawn ire of a section of social media after a purported video of the Canada Prime Minister from Taylor Swift's concert went viral, as per reports. PM Trudeau was seen dancing at Swift's concert in Toronto on Friday night, New York Post reported. Violence and antisemitism were reported at anti-NATO and pro-Palestinian protests in downtown Montreal on Friday night, where NATO delegates have gathered for the alliance's annual assembly.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The first legal challenge to generative artificial intelligence models in India surfaced last week when news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court alleging copyright infringement. In this case, a first-of-its-kind in India, New Delhi-based ANI has accused the San Francisco-headquartered creator of ChatGPT of using ANI’s copyrighted content to train its language models.

Canada Post said Saturday there’s been no “major breakthrough” in talks with the postal workers’ union as the ongoing strike entered its second week and the two sides remain far apart at the negotiating table.Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) kept negotiating over the weekend, along with the support of a special mediator.Jon Hamilton, Canada Post’s vice-president of strategic communications, told Global News the struggling company wants to reach a fair deal with the union that addresses their needs, but said fully meeting all the CUPW’s demands could limit its ability to grow its business.“Obviously, we want to continue to ensure that we have good paying jobs for our people, but there’s only so far we can go,” Hamilton said.The Crown corporation said Friday it lost $315 million before tax in the third quarter, larger than its $290-million loss a year earlier.The financial results put Canada Post on track for “another significant loss” in 2024, which would mark the seventh year in a row in the red.CUPW national president Jan Simpson told Global News that although “morale is up” among picketing postal workers, some layoffs and benefit cancellations have begun as the company tries to save its bottom line.“You can’t expect to negotiate a contract and save your company on the backs of workers,” she said in an interview.“We went to the bargaining table over a year ago with them. … This could have been done a long time ago.”Canada Post said Saturday it has seen a shortage of more than eight million parcels amid the ongoing strike compared with the same period in 2023.More than 55,000 workers across the country walked off the job on Nov.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is firmly in his Swiftie era.Trudeau attended the Taylor Swift concert in Toronto on Friday, the Eras Tour’s second-last night in the city.Press secretary Jenna Ghassabeh confirmed that the prime minister was at the concert with family members.Saturday wraps up two weekends of concerts in Toronto for the Eras Tour, which ends in Vancouver with three shows at BC Place from Dec.

Smackdown, and NXT will be live streamed on Netflix, as per a report on WhatsOnNetflix.

Mexico has been taking a bashing for allegedly serving as a conduit for Chinese parts and products into North America

A weak Canadian dollar is being blamed as a key culprit behind sticky inflation at the grocery store, a trend one expert says he expects to persist heading into the holidays.

Going by this ratio, different countries in the world have different moments of overvaluation. Japan in 1997-90, Singapore in 1993-94 and again in 2006-07, China and India in 2007, UK in 2007 and 2014.

At least three Michigan deer hunters have died of heart attacks during the current 16-day season, including two men who were trying to haul away the heavy animals, authorities said.

Canada's public health agency on Friday confirmed the first case of clade I mpox in Canada, in an person in Manitoba.

Outlander Season 7 Part 2 returns this week, promising eight episodes of gripping storytelling. The season continues the saga of Jamie and Claire Fraser against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War.

The Liberals’ announcement Thursday of roughly $6.3 billion in GST/HST breaks and rebates has some economists wondering what that rush of cash into people’s pocketbooks could mean for the Bank of Canada and interest rate cuts.

The Canadian foreign ministry last month alleged Amit Shah, considered the number two in Modi's government, was behind a campaign of intimidation in Canada. Ottawa says it has evidence linking Indian government agents to the 2023 murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. This week, the Globe and Mail newspaper said Canadian security agencies believed Modi knew about the violent plots and said Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and national security adviser Ajit Doval were also in the loop.

Manulife Financial Corp.’s chief executive Roy Gori, who surprised some investors with an earlier-than-expected retirement announcement this week, says he never wanted to stay in the job so long that people started wondering why he just wouldn’t leave.

Mexico's president has acknowledged that Canada is concerned about reports of a Chinese company's auto plant in Mexico, but she says it does not exist

A Canadian company will spend $600 million to expand its tissue paper mill in Georgia, hiring 100 more workers