EQ Bank carves out more market share with $800-million PC Financial purchase
Equitable Bank parent company EQB is buying PC Financial from Loblaw, bringing two banking challengers together in what appears to be a bid to better take on Canada’s Big Five banks.
If you bought bread in the past two decades, you could be eligible for a payment
Looking for a little bit of extra dough? Canadians can still apply for compensation from Loblaws and its parent company for a bread price-fixing scheme that went on for more than a decade. But the deadline to apply is coming up on December 12th.
Rogers customers complain of hours spent on hold as service reps laid off
Rogers customers tell CBC’s Go Public they’re frustrated after spending hours on hold trying to resolve basic issues. Meanwhile, insiders say the company is increasingly relying on AI assistance to handle customer service calls.
As Blue Jays fans stare down high-priced World Series tickets, can provinces really stop scalpers?
Thousands of Canadians eager to watch the Blue Jays play in the World Series for the first time since 1993, who have dealt with impossibly long lines and exorbitantly high prices, are once again turning their frustrations toward a familiar target — Ticketmaster.
Amazon cloud outage downed sites for millions of users, exposing risks of overdependence
A few days after Amazon's cloud services company AWS had an outage that for millions of users plunged popular websites and apps into the dark, questions still linger about why we're so reliant on a handful of companies in the first place — and why it might be hard to prevent another outage.
Should Canada hit ctrl+alt+delete on its AI vision?
Canada's push to stake out its digital future is reaching new heights, with a national artificial intelligence strategy expected in the coming weeks.