Tag Archives: Canadian

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database. The retailer says the breached information belongs to shoppers who had an e-commerce account with Canadian Tire or its other banners, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Equipeur and Party City. …

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is certainly unusual, if not extraordinary, and which raise questions about whether Ottawa should block them in the interest of national security. It’s “possibly unprecedented for the U.S. government itself to be buying …

Canadian economist Peter Howitt is among a group of three researchers who won the Nobel memorial prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday. Howitt, Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion won for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace …

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more freely operate on Canadian soil. House Resolution 5518, introduced by New York Republican Rep. Nicholas Langworthy, calls on …

Canadian runner Nate Tucker won his signature event in record-setting fashion at the Para athletics world championships on Sunday in New Delhi. The Victoria native broke his own championship record in the men’s 1,500-metre T38 final with a time of three minutes 57.98 seconds, earning his third world title in the event. The 2021 Paralympic champion …

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was slapping 10 per cent tariffs on imported timber and lumber and 25 per cent duties on kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and upholstered furniture, continuing his tariff assault on global trading partners. The action is the first in three sectors that Trump said last …

Cale Makar has difficulty recognizing the college hockey landscape in the wake of a seismic shift that has transformed the sport in the mere five years since he left UMass to join Colorado in the NHL. From the introduction of name, image and likeness (NIL) money to the NCAA lifting …

Major airlines and airports, as well as both domestic and international travellers, could face added costs if pre-clearance services are lost in Canada, says an aviation expert. Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, said on Thursday that pre-clearance locations in Canadian airports are seeing declining numbers, as travel to the U.S. …

Hundreds of Ontario patients have been sent to U.S. hospitals and clinics for government-reimbursed medical care since 2018, according to exclusive data obtained by CBC News. The costs — over $212 million — were covered by taxpayers money through OHIP, the province’s publicly funded health-care plan. Among the approved applications for out-of-country …

Canadian researchers say they’ve had to stop offering kids with cancer places in some clinical trials because of funding and policy changes in the United States. The U.S. government is halting funding for some pediatric clinical trials outside the U.S., and not renewing funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, a …