Senior executives at ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry met with Facebook executives to find out whether the social media company might be interested in bidding for the Canadian firm. News of the meeting was reported in the Wall Street ...
Tags: Blackberry, Computer Products, smartphone
Chrysler Group has entered into a five-year C$18.2m ($17.40m) agreement with McMaster University to develop next-generation, electrified powertrains and powertrain components. The project will receive funding support from the Canadian ...
Tags: Chrysler, Electrified Powertrains
The Canadian Spirits Industry warmly welcomes the announcement of a successful conclusion of a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the 28 Member State European Union. Building on the progress made in the ...
Tags: Spirits Industry, Ceta
Canada will continue to welcome Chinese investment and has taken concrete steps to facilitate capital inflow to further strengthen economic interdependence with China, Canadian Governor General David Johnston said on Saturday. A ...
Tags: Chinese Investment
Japan and Canada formally cemented a bilateral pact Friday to stimulate trade and investment opportunities in oil and LNG by sharing information and creating a forum to deal with energy issues. Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister ...
Tags: pipelines, regasification plants
Risk transfer is an accepted financing technique usually associated with purchasing insurance to transfer the risk to an insurance company. For the past several years, though, we have seen an increasing tendency amongst shippers to use ...
Tags: Transportation, insurance, Auto Parts
Bangladesh’s garment sector would not be affected by the amendments being made by the Canadian Government in its General Preferential Tariff (GPT) rules and Rules of Origin. Heather Cruden, Canadian High Commissioner in ...
Tags: RMG Sector, garment sector
L-3 Communications is a publicly traded American company that specializes in communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and command and control. It supplies products that include avionics, ocean products, navigation and ...
The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, announced that the firm Maxime Knitting Mills Inc. has ...
The Canadian Government has launched new Parents of Critically Ill Children (PCIC) benefit through Employment Insurance (EI) program, the country's Human Resources and Skills Development minister Diane Finley said. An intitative of the ...
The XL Foods' nationwide recall of beef products in 2012 over E.coli contamination was preventable and was caused due to lax approach towards food safety, according to an independent review initiated by the Canadian government. In 2012, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Federal regulators have moved a step closer toward requiring mechanically tenderized beef to be labeled so that you are better informed about what you buy and how to cook it safely. The tenderizing process can drive bacteria such as the ...
Tags: Long-Awaited Labeling Rule, Mechanically Tenderized Beef, USDA
The Government of Canada is planning to extend the no-tariff provision for another 10 years to the Least Developed Countries (LDC) identified by the United Nations, which includes leading textile and garment manufacturing countries such as ...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that the organic producers in the country will have increased opportunities to export their products, while people in the country will have more organic food choices to purchase, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Canadian government has handed Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica a US$257m (£170m) loan to assist in buying BlackBerry products and services. The decision was taken after BlackBerry financials, revealed last week, showed ...