Click:niche brands Streaming services will surpass cable as the number-one way Canadians watch TV within two years, a new report says. Amid this shift, Canadian broadcasters will face heavy competition for popular U.S. programming, and some shows may disappear from traditional Canadian TV stations, as U.S. broadcasters set up their own streaming services in Canada,…
OTTAWA — The pace of economic growth in Canada slowed in the first quarter of this year to its lowest rate in nearly two years as housing investment pulled back amid new mortgage stress test rules and a cooling housing market. Statistics Canada said Thursday the economy grew at an annualized pace of 1.3 per…
The bodies of two South Korean men who drowned while golfing in northern Thailand have been found, police said Thursday, after their wives’ buggy collided with their own, knocking them into a river. The group were on a ferry preparing to cross the river that runs through the course when the men – who were…
VANCOUVER — Money-laundering operations through casinos are tied to British Columbia’s opioid crisis and the real-estate market, the attorney general said Wednesday as he released an independent report detailing how organized crime groups used the gaming industry to fuel the overdose crisis and skyrocketing housing prices. David Eby said the problem surfaced in 2011 but…
Donald Trump attacked Elizabeth Warren, the first major Democrat candidate to declare for the 2020 presidential race, saying voters should "ask her psychiatrist" if she could win. Ms Warren,69, the US senator from Massachusetts, announced her White House run on New Year’s Eve, saying she would "fight all the way" against Mr Trump. The two…
The personal tax filing deadline for most Canadian taxpayers who have T1 tax forms just passed. If you have self-employment income, the filing deadline is June 15. This means that tax returns have to be filed by midnight on those respective dates. If you don’t file your taxes on time, you face a number of…
Two major Dutch hospitals say they will stop importing human body parts from American firms, which they have been doing without any regulation for a decade. The hospitals told Reuters in recent weeks they made their decisions on ethical grounds. The move comes amid investigations by US law enforcement into some so-called body brokers – companies…
Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, the two recently announced Pokémon titles headed to Nintendo Switch later this year, were swiftly joined by the announcement of the Poké Ball Plus – a controller of sorts that allows players to catch Pokémon in a brand new way. At the time, it seemed as though Nintendo…
An aspiring actress who had a sexual relationship with Woody Allen as a teenager has spoken for the first time about their affair, describing her shock to find that she partially inspired the Mariel Hemingway character in his film Manhattan. Babi Christina Engelhardt was 16 in 1976, when she embarked on an eight year relationship…
There is a joke that capital punishment in Canada is spending two weeks in Ottawa. Well, homebuyers these days disagree. The somewhat sleepy government town with pretty canals and gothic government buildings is now a real estate juggernaut, with rapidly rising prices, supply shortages, bidding wars and growing interest from foreign buyers. Canada’s capital now…