Nearly a third of Canadians are considering buying a home with others, renting out a secondary unit and other “non-traditional” paths to ownership amid ongoing affordability barriers in the housing market, a new poll released Tuesday suggests. Re/Max Canada published the results of a poll conducted by Leger in late …
Read More »Ottawa Senators part ways with GM Pierre Dorion after 8 seasons
Descrease article font size Increase article font size With a new ownership group in place, and following the forfeiture of a first-round pick, the Ottawa Senators have decided to make a change. “Today I’m here to announce that Pierre Dorion has resigned and been relieved of his duties as general …
Read More »Saint John, N.B. looking for ways to open childcare spaces to ‘hundreds’ – New Brunswick
The City of Saint John is set to look for ways to tackle an ongoing daycare shortage in the city. Presented at Saint John Common Council, Coun. Barry Ogden and Joanna Killen are hoping to find ways the city can work with developers and other city stakeholders to find ways …
Read More »Ottawa gardeners are findings ways to bring sustainability to their urban spaces
OTTAWA — Cole Etherington was not always a green thumb. In fact, he said his first year of gardening was plain horrible: his crops didn’t grow, the soil wasn’t right and everything that could go wrong, did. “It just absolutely sucked,” said Etherington. But that failure only pushed him to …
Read More »Manitoba premier rehires chief of staff who got $85K to part ways with government a year ago
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson has just done something her former boss called “not fair” and “not right” — rehired a chief of staff who received a severance payment from the province in recent memory. Stefanson confirmed last week that Philip Houde, who served as former premier Brian Pallister’s first chief of staff, …
Read More »Canadians love their cars so much that high fuel prices won’t make most of us change our ways
If you are expecting clear sailing on the highways this coming long weekend because soaring gas prices have forced all the other drivers — except you, of course — to leave their cars at home, you might want to think again. Some motorists insist that $2-a-litre gasoline means they’ll drive a lot less, …
Read More »New computer model shows best ways to slow COVID-19 spread, Health News, ET HealthWorld
Researchers in Canada have developed a computer model that simulates many variables affecting the transmission of COVID-19 to suggest the best ways to slow the spread of variants. The model created by researchers at the University of Waterloo takes raw data already in use to forecast case numbers and hospitalisations, …
Read More »4 ways to navigate a post-acquisition partnership – TechCrunch
Mergers and acquisitions are notoriously tricky to navigate from a leadership and culture perspective. They require a thoughtful approach to working with a new CEO and joining teams as one workforce — a journey familiar to us and recently acquired Auth0. Okta and Auth0 have their share of differences — …
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