For Sonya Mullins, the benefits of thinking small are obvious – when it comes to housing Mullins grew up in Halifax but spent most of her life in Montreal. Before the pandemic, she thought about moving back to Nova Scotia. But by the time she started looking seriously, housing prices had jumped so much that …
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Flights to and from Vancouver International Airport continue to resume after major delays and cancellations due to dangerous winter weather. The airport itself was fully operational as of Saturday morning, with 93 percent of scheduled flights to YVR departing, Vancouver Airport Authority CEO Tamara Vrooman said. By 10:00 a.m., 36 flights had been canceled while …
chevrolet bolt-euv Full overview Amid growing interest in EVs and skyrocketing new car prices, the Chevrolet Bolt EV and its bigger, better-looking sibling, the Bolt EUV, are finally getting the buyer love they deserve. We acknowledged the technological achievement and incredible value the Bolt represented (and still represents) when we named it our 2017 Car …
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Hyundai unveiled the design of its next-generation KONA models on Monday. Instead of trying to make it look like just another gas-powered car, the automaker introduced elements that incorporate the direction the auto industry is heading — toward electric cars. Hyundai goes bold with the new EV-inspired KONA 2024 design After its first dedicated electric …
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For Australian philosopher Peter Singer, fraud charges against Samuel Bankman-Fried will not deal a death blow to “effective altruism”, the philanthropic movement promoted by the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. “This may lead the movement to reevaluate its relationship with billionaires and reevaluate its relationship with cryptocurrencies,” Singer, who some call the “father of …
Photo: Miguel Roberts (AP) There’s no getting around it. Elon Musk is a business genius. Show a man a box and he will think outside the box. CEO scared away all of Twitter’s advertisers, so lately he’s been trying to figure out a way for his company to make money. Twitter is working on a …
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A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can login right here. You can listen to the audio version of the newsletter by clicking on the same link. New York CNN — “It’s time for Wall Street strategists to pack their clients’ email inboxes with …
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RENO, Nev. – A pair of work pants recovered from an 1857 sunken ship’s trunk off the North Carolina coast, which auction officials describe as the world’s oldest known jeans, has sold for $114,000. According to Holabird Western American Collections, white, heavy-duty miners’ pants with a five-button flap were among 270 Gold Rush-era artifacts that …
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The federal government has awarded a contract to provide and maintain RCMP communications equipment to a company with ties to the Chinese government, Radio-Canada has learned. The contract has security experts warning of potential Chinese access to RCMP communications and data. On October 6, 2021, the federal government awarded Sinclair Technologies a $549,637 contract for …
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The Tesla Semi wowed the crowd attending the annual Celebration of Lights Christmas parade in Modesto, California. Tesla recently delivered to Frito-Lay and Pepsi on Thursday the first of its all-electric Class 8 Tesla Semi vehicles, which have three times the power of other diesel trucks on the road. After taking over the vehicle, Frito-Lay …
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The latest earnings reports from Canada’s major banks show signs that Canada’s economy is slowing ahead of a potential recession, with some hints of optimism. The Big Six banks – RBC, TD, CIBC, Scotiabank, BMO and National Bank – all released their Q4 2022 reports this week. Five of the six reported a decline in …
The sought-after Ford Mustang Mach-E is apparently struggling with reliability issues (Image: Ford) The elegant electric car from the Michigan manufacturer is supposed to compete with the extremely successful Tesla Model Y and Model 3, but it has now lost the recommendation of the influential American publication Consumer Reports due to allegedly insufficient reliability. Reliability …
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