TORONTO — Second Cup wants to serve up a different kind of buzz by converting some of its coffee shops into cannabis dispensaries and, when legal, pot lounges. Shares in the Canadian restaurant operator rose as much as 31 per cent to $3.62 apiece in early afternoon trading on Thursday after it announced that it…
For small businesses in Canada, the struggle to find the right candidates for job vacancies is real. Job site Indeed.com has compiled a list of the top 15 positions at small businesses that go unfilled for more than 60 days. Small businesses have a particularly hard time finding skilled workers, Indeed.com managing director Jodi Kasten…
Health insurance companies in Germany may no longer pay for dental braces after a remarkable government report found that there is no proof that they work. “We can’t say whether orthodontic treatment has any of the middle or long-term benefits that are expected of it,” Ann Marini, spokeswoman for the federation of public health insurers,…
WestJet pilots have committed to not disrupting passenger travel plans over the Victoria Day long weekend despite voting overwhelmingly to give its union a strike mandate. The Air Line Pilots Association said its WestJet members voted 91 per cent in favour of strike action. About 95 per cent of WestJet’s 1,500 pilots and WestJet Encore’s…
It was the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance for a team of divers to photograph themselves alongside Deep Blue, the notorious great white shark. But, in the words of one commentator, the resulting headline could easily have read: "stupid human dies chasing a 20ft shark". The female, one of the largest sharks ever recorded,…
OTTAWA — Millions of cellphones, tablets and other portable devices will sound off across the country next week to test Canada’s new public emergency alert system. The country’s broadcast and telecom regulator says the tests will be carried out next Monday in Ontario and Quebec and on Wednesday in the rest of the country. Test…
A huge fire exploded at a pipeline leaking fuel in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least 20 people and badly burning 60 others as locals tried to collect the spilling gasoline in buckets, officials said. The leak was caused by fuel thieves illegally tapping the pipeline in a small town in the state of…
Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, plans to leave the Justice Department shortly after a new attorney general is sworn into office, according to sources. Mr Rosenstein has overseen special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a role which has repeatedly drawn the ire of Donald Trump, who has labelled the probe a "witch hunt". Mr…
Boy, this new Vancouver property tax increase — the charmingly named “school tax” — sure is causing a lot of commotion. It can be as little as a few hundred if your home is worth just over $3 million, but if you are lucky enough to own a $6-million house, you better find another $10,000…
An American supporter of the Islamic State has been arrested after he plotted to blow a hole in the White House with an anti-tank rocket and storm the building. Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, from the town of Cumming, Georgia, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday, on the eve of his planned attack. He had…