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Dorota Blumczynska didn’t even need to look at the Manitoba Museum’s bank accounts to know it couldn’t afford to buy the royal charter that formed Canada’s oldest business when the Hudson’s Bay Company faltered last year. “Our acquisition budget as a museum has a balance of just over $4,000,” the …
Read More »North Bay, Ont., tenant says he’s worse off after accepting landlord’s $40K offer to move out
After a months-long fight with his landlord, Shannon Lucas accepted a $40,000 payout to move out of a North Bay, Ont., townhouse, but says he would give it all back if he could stay. The landlord says the building needed extensive renovations and that Lucas could have moved back in …
Read More »Hundreds of Thunder Bay homes have lead pipes. Would bylaws like ones in other cities reduce exposure?
Kevin Duke says replacing the lead pipes in his home doesn’t seem feasible. The Thunder Bay, Ont., senior wasn’t aware of the lead pipes until the City of Thunder Bay began distributing NSF/ANSI-53-approved water filter pitcher kits in 2020. A couple of years ago, he said, the city replaced the …
Read More »B.C. Ferries passenger goes overboard on Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay route
A passenger went overboard on a B.C. Ferries vessel bound for Vancouver Island from Metro Vancouver on Wednesday. B.C. Ferries said it happened on the 1 p.m. sailing from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay, shortly after the Spirit of Vancouver Island vessel had left the terminal. Another ferry, the Queen of …
Read More »Court monitor says it doesn’t support Hudson’s Bay plan to sell leases to Ruby Liu
The court-appointed monitor overseeing Hudson’s Bay’s creditor protection case says it’s against landlords being forced to accept a B.C. billionaire’s plan to buy more than two dozen of the retailer’s leases. In a new court filing made late Wednesday, Alvarez & Marsal said it does not agree that landlords should have …
Read More »Gorky Park, Havana Bay mystery author Martin Cruz Smith dead at 82
Martin Cruz Smith, the bestselling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with Gorky Park and other thrillers featuring Moscow investigator Arkady Renko, has died at age 82. Smith died Friday at a senior living community in San Rafael, Calif., “surrounded by those he loved,” according to his publisher, Simon & …
Read More »Hudson’s Bay heads back to court for fight with lender over Ruby Liu deal
Hudson’s Bay is headed back to court Tuesday for a fight with one of its biggest lenders. Restore Capital LLC will ask Judge Peter Osborne to terminate a deal between the defunct retailer and B.C. billionaire Ruby Liu, who wants to buy up to 25 of its leases. The lender …
Read More »Thunder Bay, Ont., family who took fight for girl’s autism funding to court to learn if it was worth it
In one week, Patrick Cully will find out whether his five-year-old daughter Scarlet will be able to continue the life-changing therapy she’s relied on for more than a year — or if long waitlists and a lack of funding will halt her progress. On June 23, the Federal Court ordered Indigenous …
Read More »Hudson’s Bay lender asks court to end lease deal with mall owner Ruby Liu
One of Hudson’s Bay’s biggest lenders says the department store chain has handled its liquidation so badly that a court should end a buzzy but fraught lease transaction the retailer signed with a B.C. billionaire and subject the company to even more oversight as it winds down. A motion filed …
Read More »Hudson’s Bay to ask for court approval of Canadian Tire deal – National
Hudson’s Bay is expected to return to court Tuesday morning to seek approval for a $30-million deal it signed with Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. If the deal gets the OK from Ontario’s Superior Court, Canadian Tire will be able to buy the rights to Hudson’s Bay’s intellectual property, which includes …
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