Former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for his role in the 2022 collapse of FTX, which once was one of the world's most popular platforms for trading digital currency.Bankman-Fried, 32, was convicted on seven charges in November related...
The Canadian economy grew 0.6 per cent in January, the fastest growth rate in a year, while the economy likely expanded 0.4 per cent in February, Statistics Canada said Thursday.The rate was higher than forecasted by economists, who were expecting GDP growth of 0.4 per cent in the...
Business·NewThe Canadian economy grew 0.6 per cent in January, Statistics Canada says.Growth in December was flat following a weak 2023CBC News · Posted: Mar 28, 2024 8:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes agoA person carries shopping bags in the Glebe neighbourhood of...
Four major Ontario school boards are taking some of the largest social media companies to court over their products, alleging the way they're designed has negatively rewired the way children think, behave and learn and disrupted the way schools operate.The public district school boards of Toronto, Peel and...
If chocolate is your pleasure, you've undoubtedly noticed it costs more these days to get your fill.You can thank the scarcity of cocoa for that. The majority of it grows in West Africa, where drought and disease have severely reduced crop yields. As a result,...
The cost of selling a home in the United States may be about to change dramatically.A real estate trade group has agreed to a landmark deal to drop what was once a cornerstone of the industry: the six per cent sales commission paid to agents.In Canada,...
Allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney reached a settlement agreement Wednesday in a state court fight over how Walt Disney World is developed in the future following the takeover of the theme park resort's government by the Florida governor.In a meeting, the DeSantis-appointed members...
B.C.'s director of civil forfeiture has filed an unexplained wealth order in an attempt to seize a quarter-million dollars in cash, 45 gold bars, luxury watches and jewelry that were contained in a safety deposit box belonging to the co-founder of a notorious B.C.-based cryptocurrency exchange scam.Documents filed in...
A new report says the federal government is providing billions of dollars in financial support for the fossil fuel industry, despite measures announced last year to limit certain types of subsidies for the oil and gas industry.The analysis, released today by the advocacy group Environmental...
The Facebook poke is having a moment, thanks to a new generation discovering what some argue is the social media site's most annoying feature.There's been a 13-fold spike in poking on Facebook in the past month, the company announced in a post last week. More...