The main TSX index closed slightly higher on Friday, lifted by energy issues that helped offset tech shares that were hurt by concerns of a weakening appetite for business spending.
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Roger Federer had been the top-ranked tennis player in the world for a record 237 consecutive weeks — until last week week, when he finally relinquished the top spot to Spain’s Rafael Nadal
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The number of new listings for resale homes leapt past 80,000 for the first time last month amid sagging sales and prices, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.
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Hanging on a white marker board in Kurt Gibson’s office is a faded Polaroid of himself and his sister when they were children. They are standing inside a length of 48-inch
pipe in the port town of Valdez, the picture snapped on a family
road trip in May, 1970. Seven years later, the first oil would move
through that pipe in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) from
Alaska’s North Slope to Valdez and from there by tanker to
energy-thirsty Americans in the lower 48 United States.
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The survey, conducted by pollster Harris/Decima, suggests education is a factor in determining the number of hours Canadians work, with 21% who work 11 or more hours a day having no education above high school compared with 14% of those with post-secondary education.
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When workers at a privately owned building-products supplier in Sudbury, Ont., decided to stop paying union dues several years ago because they felt the union wasn’t doing anything for them anymore, a labour boss was eventually dispatched to the northern city to deal with the situation.
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Talk about a sinkhole: According to comScore, a Web data tracker, Americans spent 302 billion minutes online last month. That’s 6,760 lifetimes at 85 years apiece. Just where does all that time go?
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This may surprise you: The world’s most expensive universities are not haute institutions in the Swiss Alps or on the balmy shores of the Persian Gulf. Nor are they the Ivy League citadels of America’s elite like Harvard or Princeton, or ancient halls of learning like Cambridge or Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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Canadians should expect further evidence this Labour-Day shortened week that the job market has cooled, but they shouldn’t bank on any interest-rate relief, analysts warn.
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Fans say game day improvements still miss the markCarson Times, NV - 6 hours agoNevada introduced new Mexican and Asian offerings this year, including rice bowls and mega nachos, in response to fans' requests. The Wolf Pack also heeded …
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