Though women have made significant strides, a bulletproof glass ceiling still exists. Proof: The world’s 10 top-earning male athletes out-earned the world’s top-earning female athletes by more than 4-to-1 last year.
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The Ontario Court of Appeal has announced that its long-awaited decision on the asset-backed commercial paper workout will be released after markets close on Monday, Aug. 18, at 5 p.m. ET.
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Canadian home prices will continue to outpace inflation this year and next the federal housing agency forecast Friday, only a day after the real estate industry reported that home prices last month were down 3.6% from a year earlier.
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A franchise of a burger chain one day found the dough for their buns wasn’t rising. It was a long weekend and the corporate offices were closed. With nowhere to turn, the manager wrote about the problem in the company’s internal social network — a type of insiders’ Facebook. Within minutes, managers at other franchises responded, saying they were having the same problems.
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In the 11 months ending early last month, the price of oil nearly doubled, reaching more than US$147 a barrel. Even some in the oil industry were a little unnerved by this trend, since it raised the eventual prospect of a severe global economic slump.
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High oil prices and increased environmental awareness are combining to change our shopping habits and the origin of goods available in stores.
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The Games are the biggest event here since the Communist revolution in 1949. But the rigid, cryptic and intensely frustrating controls that have kept China together for six decades remain. And major corporate sponsors are running into them.
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While gold remained the medal of choice at the Beijing Games, investors poured out of the precious metal on Friday, leading it to its biggest weekly decline in a quarter century and contributing to another sell off of the S&P/TSX composite index.
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Times OnlineThe new cold war hots upTimes Online, UK - 5 hours agoMoscow argues that while it pulled back its troops from eastern Europe and allowed American forces into central Asia to fight in Afghanistan, the Americans …Video: Bush Warns Russia on Disputed Georgian Provinces AssociatedPressGeorgia calls for tough, unified diplomacy Kansas.comTrigger happy and oil mad Sydney Morning HeraldHuffington Post - The Heraldall 2,527 news articles
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PHILIPPINES: Hungry for Rice, Unwilling to InvestIPS, Italy - Aug 15, 2008These include widespread diversion of paddy lands to cash crops and/or residential sites; bad weather conditions which damaged rice crops in Southeast Asia; …Philippine's Rice Output Grows Slower Than Expected, Yap Says Bloombergall 34 news articles
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