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CTV News
4 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
S&P/TSX composite down more than 100 points, U.S. stock markets mixed
The S&P TSX composite index screen at the TMX Market Centre in downtown Toronto is photographed on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin TORONTO — Canada's main stock index fell more than 100 points in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the energy and financial sectors, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 140.58 points at 27,058.27. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 237.04 points at 44,222.61. The S&P 500 index was up 1.24 points at 6,269.80, while the Nasdaq composite was up 133.35 points at 20,773.68. The Canadian dollar traded for 72.84 cents US compared with 73.03 cents US on Monday. The August crude oil contract was down 32 cents US at US$66.66 per barrel. The August gold contract was down US$4.70 at US$3,354.40 an ounce. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 15, 2025.
Toronto Sun
4 days ago
- Business
- Toronto Sun
Rogers launches satellite-to-mobile text messaging beta trial
Published Jul 15, 2025 • 1 minute read The Rogers logo is photographed in Toronto on Monday, September 30, 2019. Photo by Tijana Martin / THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. has launched a new satellite-to-mobile text messaging service, marking the latest step in its partnership with SpaceX and Lynk Global to eventually deliver full satellite-to-phone coverage across apps, data and voice service. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The company says its Rogers Satellite text service, which also includes text-to-911 capability, is available to all Canadians through a free beta trial that will run until October. The technology uses SpaceX's Starlink low-earth orbit satellites and Rogers' national wireless spectrum to automatically connect cellphones in areas without cell service. It's meant to help customers stay connected in some of the most remote parts of Canada and along rural highways. Rogers president and CEO Tony Staffieri says the announcement 'represents the next big leap in wireless connectivity.' Following the trial, Rogers Satellite will be included at no additional cost to customers on the Rogers Ultimate plan and will be available for all Canadians for $15 per month. Customers participating in the beta trial will receive a monthly $5 discount for one year. Celebrity Toronto & GTA Columnists Editorial Cartoons NFL
Toronto Sun
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
BINDA: Taxpayers don't want to pay for FIFA World Cup
Signage for the official brand and new #WeAre26 awareness campaign as Host City for FIFA World Cup 2026, photographed at BMO Field in Toronto, on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Photo by Tijana Martin / THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario taxpayers don't think hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026 is worth the cost. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account That's according to new polling from Leger , commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. With a price tag of $380 million to host just six international soccer games, who can blame Ontario taxpayers for having cold feet? Leger asked Ontario residents if they thought it was worth spending up to $380 million to host six soccer games during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Fifty per cent responded that the six soccer games are not worth the cost, compared to only 39% who responded that it is worth it. The remainder did not have an opinion. Normal families across Ontario are lying awake at night wondering how they will afford the basics and the Ontario government is running up the provincial debt by billions of dollars every year. Taxpayers should not be stuck with a $380-million bill for hosting a handful of international soccer games. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. And about that $380 million — when the games were first pitched by Toronto bureaucrats in 2018, cost estimates ranged between $30 to $45 million. At the high end, that means costs have ballooned by more than 744% in the past seven years. That's not just a cost overrun; that's a betrayal of accountability and basic honesty by provincial and municipal politicians. The federal government is spending more than $104 million on Toronto's six soccer games, while the province is kicking in an additional $97 million. Municipal taxpayers are on the hook for another $179 million. That means families across Ontario and the country are spending hundreds of millions of dollars so Toronto can host a few soccer games that have absolutely no benefit to them. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. And there truly is no net benefit for taxpayers. 'Hosting the FIFA World Cup is overall ineffective in tourism promotion,' according to a peer-reviewed article in the academic Journal of Tourism Economics . The $380 million going towards FIFA could build 11 schools in the Greater Toronto Area with space for more than 9,050 students. It could pay the salaries of 475 registered nurses for a decade. Instead, it's being shovelled out the door so Toronto can host six international soccer games. Make no mistake: Ontario can't afford to host these games. Ontario taxpayers will be on the hook for $461 billion worth of provincial government debt by the end of this year. Premier Doug Ford is recklessly adding $22 billion to the debt this year. When Ontario is already the most indebted sub-national government in the world, borrowing even more money just to host a few soccer games is the type of budgeting you would expect to see from a frat house, not Canada's biggest province. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Interest payments on Ontario's mammoth debt are already costing taxpayers $1,000 per person this year. Borrowing more to host six soccer games is like maxing out your eighth credit card to go on a luxury vacation. Sure, it might be fun at the time, but you're going to be in for a world of hurt when those bills come due. And remember, Toronto is not hosting the entire event; it's only hosting six out of 104 games. None of the six games being hosted in Toronto are finals, semifinals or even quarterfinals. If hosting an entire World Cup does not promote tourism, how on earth will hosting six of the lowest-profile matches in the tournament provide any kind of net benefit to Toronto? Ford and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow need to pull the plug on their plan to spend taxpayer money to host these games. Taxpayers do not think they are worth the cost, while the government is irresponsibly running up the debt. Carson Binda is the B.C. director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation Olympics Basketball Uncategorized Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA
CTV News
12-06-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
The 2025 wildfire season is on track to be Canada's 2nd-worst on record
A helicopter drops water on the Dryden Creek Wildfire, just north of Squamish, B.C., on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin OTTAWA — The area burned by wildfires so far this season is the second-largest on record in Canada, according to government data. Officials with Public Safety Canada held a technical briefing this morning in Ottawa to update media outlets on the state of multiple wildfires. They say the greatest fire danger in July is expected to be in southern British Columbia, while the Northwest Territories and Yukon will face an increased risk of wildfires. This year's fire season — the second worst since the 2023 wildfire season — has seen wildfires consume 3.7 million hectares, six times the area of Prince Edward Island. The 10-year average for wildfire seasons is about 800,000 hectares. Environment and Climate Change Canada is forecasting higher-than-normal temperatures across the country through August, especially in provinces east of Manitoba — though the risk of wildfires remains highest in central and western provinces and territories. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 12, 2025 Nick Murray, The Canadian Press
Toronto Sun
14-05-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
CBC to stop paying individual bonuses after controversy
Published May 14, 2025 • < 1 minute read The CBC logo is projected onto a screen during the CBC's annual upfront presentation in Toronto, May 29, 2019. Photo by Tijana Martin / THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The CBC's board of directors says the Crown corporation will no longer pay individual bonuses to employees. The move comes after the public broadcaster was criticized for paying out millions in bonuses after eliminating hundreds of jobs. More coming. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Relationships Toronto Maple Leafs Celebrity Toronto & GTA Columnists
