No drastic change needed at BlackBerry maker — Heins Gulf News | Toronto: The new chief executive of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said yesterday drastic change is not needed after the departure of Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who stepped down as co-CEOs and co-chairmen of the once iconic but now struggling company. | The RIM founders have been repla...
BlackBerry maker co-CEOs step down as co-CEOs Kansas City Star In this July 2009 file photo, Research in Motion co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis posed with their BlackBerry devices before the company’s annual general meeting in Waterloo, Ontario. On Sunday, the company announced Balsillie and Lazaridis were stepping down and will be replaced by Tho...
Accountability panel gets mixed reviews CBC Premier David Alward will announce a panel of independent business people next week. (CBC) | Premier David Alward's plan to establish a Panel on Accountability and Responsible Government is getting mixed reviews. | Alward announced the idea during hi...
Stephen Harper and the Big Oil Party of Canada CounterPunch | Where will you be and what will you be doing when the first giant oil tanker (there will be two plying the waters every three days), carrying over 200,000 gallons of tar sands goop diluted with solvent, spills its load into the waters of northern B...
McKesson Canada confirms $25M centre in Moncton CBC | McKesson Canada is investing $25 million into a distribution business in Moncton that will serve the Maritime region. | McKesson Canada is moving to a new distribution centre in Moncton’s Caledonia Industrial Park, where it will employ 90 people....
Lather, rinse, redevelop: soap factory sold Canada Dot Com | First Gulf Corporation has bought the sprawling former soap factory of Unilever at the foot of the Don Valley Parkway, with plans to turn the 14-hectare site into a mixed-use office development. | First Gulf, whose affiliated company, Great Gulf Ho...
CP Directors, Activist Investor on Collision Course Journal of Commerce Proxy fight heats up over best strategy to ramp up profitability at Canadian railroad | The time to switch the tracks and prevent Canadian Pacific Railway from barreling toward a proxy fight is over. | U.S. activist investor William Ackman on Wednesd...
Canadian Pacific profits grow to $221M CBC | Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., under fire from a dissident investor who wants major changes at the company, said Thursday that efforts to boost efficiency helped improve its fourth-quarter profit by 19 per cent. | The Calgary-based railway said it ...
Cat in the cockpit grounds Halifax plane Canada Dot Com A kitty cat (not this little cutie) got into the wiring of a cockpit in an Air Canada jet Wednesday morning, forcing a four-hour delay. The kitty is safe and the plane eventually took off for its destination of Toronto. | Photograph by: Hemera, Thinkstock | It wasn't snakes on a plane, but a furry feline that grounded for several hours an Air Ca...
So, what have the Scots ever done for us? Just 101 of the innovations Caledonia ... The Independent | Misappropriated as the philosophical father of our money, money, money culture, the absent-minded Scottish Enlightenment philosopher spent a decade writing The Wealth of Nations. He studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford – and considered the teaching at the former superior. | Bank of England | Sir Mervyn King has Sir William Paterson...
