Swiss Reject Bids to Improve Food Quality, Protect Farmers
Swiss voters have roundly rejected two proposals aimed at giving the country’s farmers greater protection and ensuring that food from both domestic and foreign producers is healthier.
Swiss voters have roundly rejected two proposals aimed at giving the country’s farmers greater protection and ensuring that food from both domestic and foreign producers is healthier.
Lawmakers have scuttled a plan to limit airline change fees as bill deadline looms.
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have scuttled a plan to prohibit airlines from charging “unreasonable” fees for changing or canceling tickets.
US cable giant Comcast has submitted the highest bid in the auction for broadcaster Sky, valuing the company at more than £30bn.
Comcast beat Rupert Murdoch’s Fox in a rare blind auction process set by the UK’s Takeover Panel.
The firm’s chairman and chief executive said it was “a great day for Comcast”.
Legal fights brew in Canada, U.S. over news box office giant profits from resale of millions of tickets
A U.S. law firm is seeking to launch a class-action lawsuit on behalf of fans who purchased inflated resale tickets through Ticketmaster, alleging the company runs a professional scalper program that may have violated consumer rights.
The continued and chronic shortage of skilled labor could undermine local and national economic growth and make development projects more expensive and time-consuming.
Twitter says a bug might have caused private messages and protected tweets from some users to be mistakenly sent to developers who were not the intended recipients.
NEW YORK — TWITTER says it found a software bug that may have sent some private messages to the wrong people.
The developer of a nearly empty new mall just north of Calgary says he’s confident it will become the bustling Asian-style bazaar it is meant to be despite having to delay its late-October grand opening until sometime next year.
The energy and industrials sectors helped Canada’s main stock index edge higher in late-morning trading.
The $1,100 price tag on Apple’s latest iPhone turned heads when the company announced it last week. But for less than half as much, you can still get a good camera, a decent-sized screen and other popular features.
Long-term U.S. mortgage rates are up for the fourth consecutive week, with the key 30-year rate reaching its highest level since May.