Electrical

[published_date] The former boss of Manitoba Hydro was paid nearly $900,000 in compensation in 2024, despite only working 1½ months before her dismissal from the Crown corporation. The high pay earned by Jay Grewal, revealed to be $881,177.94 according to Hydro's annual compensation disclosures this week, suggests the utility bought out the remainder of her contract, according to…

[published_date] Rogers Communications Inc. has closed its deal to buy BCE Inc.'s 37.5 per cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment to become the majority owner of the company. Rogers now holds a 75 per cent stake in the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Argonauts and Toronto FC. The $4.7-billion…

[published_date] As development creeps closer to Kahnawà:ke's borders, Grand Chief Cody Diabo says the community near Montreal is fed up — watching homes and businesses get built on land they say has belonged to them for centuries, while a 345-year-old land grievance remains stalled in federal bureaucracy. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) launched an…

[published_date] A group of elected officials in B.C. want a provincial policy for parental and maternity leave, something that doesn't currently exist. Three B.C. mothers have been pushing for a policy on their own for years, but last year they all joined forces and say the province is finally getting on board. They want changes to…

[published_date] Kevin Pillar is hanging up his cleats. The former Toronto Blue Jays centre-fielder announced his retirement Wednesday after 13 seasons in Major League Baseball. Pillar became a Blue Jays fan favourite and earned the "Superman" nickname for routinely making highlight-reel catches to rob opposing teams of home runs. The 36-year-old from West Hills, Calif.,…

[published_date] The City of Victoria says it will address "public disorder" in the city's downtown core through a multi-step reallocation of $10.35 million in city funds, with the largest budget item to be spent on police and bylaw enforcement. "There's no doubt in my mind that this is the single most important decision that council has…

[published_date] Prime Minister Mark Carney met with automotive sector CEOs Wednesday morning to discuss U.S. tariffs and ways to protect Canadian supply chains from the trade war with the United States. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said the CEOs of Ford Canada, Stellantis Canada and GM Canada met with Carney, along with Brian…

[published_date] Alberta continues to battle a relentless wildfire season, with more than 70 wildfires burning across the province, fuelled by days of extreme heat, high winds and low humidity.  Fire crews are now looking to a change in the forecast with rain expected to move into boreal regions on Thursday and Friday, promising cooler temperatures and much-needed moisture.…

[published_date] Microsoft says it is cutting thousands of jobs in its second round of mass layoffs in recent months. While the company didn't specify the exact number of people who would be losing their jobs, it did say it was less than four per cent of its total workforce, which would be about 9,000 people at most. (The company…

[published_date] Sales of Tesla vehicles fell sharply in the last three months, plunging 13 per cent in the second quarter over a year earlier. The electric automaker now needs to deliver more than one million vehicles in the typically strong second half to avoid another annual sales decline. Analysts say it's a difficult task given tariff-driven economic…

[published_date] Companies that paid the now-defunct digital services tax will have to wait for Ottawa to pass new legislation before they can get their refund, the Canada Revenue Agency has confirmed. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced late Sunday that Canada was dropping the tax on global tech giants in a bid to restart trade negotiations…

[published_date] Mass layoffs at dating app provider Bumble are the latest sign that more people are splitting from the high-tech way of making connections. The Texas-based online dating platform disclosed in a securities filing last week that it plans to lay off about one-third of its workforce, amounting to some 240 employees, with an anticipated savings of…