6 h. ago Canadian traffic across U.S. border has taken unprecedented nosedive

Canadians are holding their ground in the U.S.-Canada trade dispute, with hundreds of thousands fewer people travelling to the U.S.According to recent data from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the U.S. federal agency saw four million travellers arriving from Canada in February 2024. Those numbers include pedestrians and those who travelled by air, passenger vehicles and trucks.However, a year later, CBP only saw 3.5 million travellers from Canada, a drop of around 500,000 compared to the same time last year. Those levels are almost as low as the 3.4 million people who travelled from Canada to the U.S. post-pandemic in February 2023.A drop in Canadians driving to the U.S.According to the CBP, in February 2024, there were 1.4 million crossings by passenger vehicles from Canada to the U.S. However, in February 2025, that number dropped to 1.2 million, equivalent to the post-pandemic numbers of 1.2 million vehicle crossings in 2023.In February 2024, there were 2.7 million...

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44 h. ago La Ville débloque 500 000$: Moment Factory s’empare de l’église Saint

La Ville débloque 500 000$ pour une expérience à grand déploiement dans cet édifice emblématique et contribuer à la revitalisation du quartier.

Economics

5 d. ago Majority of Canadians worried immigration levels ‘too high’ despite policy changes

Last year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that annual immigration targets between 2025-2027 would be dropped from 500,000 to 395,000.

Politics

6 d. ago Citigroup Announces $1.75 Billion Redemption of 3.290% Fixed Rate/Floating Rate Notes Due 2026 and $500 Million Redemption of Floating Rate Notes Due 2026

NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. is announcing the redemption, in whole, constituting $1,750,000,000 of its 3.290% Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Notes due 2026 (the “fixed rate/floating rate notes”) (ISIN: US172967NL16), and the redemption, in whole, constituting $500,000,000 of its Floating Rate Notes due 2026 (the “floating rate notes” and, together with the fixed rate/floating […]

Economics

2 w. ago A completely abandoned Toronto home is still somehow selling for $8 million

The average price of a house sold on the Bridle Path in Toronto is over $16 million.It's a neighbourhood of excess wealth, ostentatious mega-mansions and the 0.1 per cent of society. But in and amongst all those over-the-top houses, you'll find 48 The Bridle Path, a 103- by 260-foot piece of land with a vine covered bungalow that has sat abandoned since 2017, if not longer.  Construction happening across the street. Normally when plots of land become available in the Bridle Path, it's just a matter of time before a cavalcade of construction workers arrive to build the next mansion. However, that's not what happened at all at 48 The Bridle Path.In 2017, the property sold for $6,100,000 after just a week on the market. But less than a year later, it was back up for sale for $7,995,000. It took two years and four tries before it finally sold for $6,500,000 in 2019. Then 48 The Bridle Path just sat there for years.Ove...

Economics

2 w. ago Alain Choquette a déjà essayé de vendre un de ses numéros à David Copperfield pour 500 000 $US

Alain Choquette pensait avoir gagné à la loterie lorsque David Copperfield lui a dit qu’il voulait lui acheter l’un de ses numéros de magie.

Economics

3 w. ago Ottawa just bought 500,000 ‘bird flu’ vaccines. Who is at risk?

Health Canada is aiming to cut the risk to front-line Canadians such as farm workers, vets and medical staff

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3 w. ago Thieves used a stolen card to buy a $523,000 lottery ticket. The victim wants to share the winnings

PARIS (AP) — Thieves used a stolen card to buy a winning French lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros ($523,000). But they vanished before cashing in _- and now they’re among France’s most famous fugitives. The man whose card was stolen, identified in police documents as Jean-David E., is offering to split the cash with the […]

Economics

3 w. ago First Quantum Minerals Announces the Increase of the Maximum Tender Amount of Its Cash Tender Offer for Its Outstanding 6.875% Senior Notes Due 2027

(In United States dollars, except where noted otherwise) TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (“First Quantum” or the “Company”) (TSX: FM) today announced, with respect to its previously announced tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) to purchase for cash up to $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount outstanding of its 6.875% Senior Notes […]

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3 w. ago Ottawa achète 500 000 doses de vaccin contre la grippe aviaire

Le Canada veut s’assurer d’être prêt à faire face à d’éventuelles menaces pour la santé.

Transport

3 w. ago Grippe aviaire : Ottawa commande 500 000 doses du vaccin humain en vue de protéger les personnes à risque

Le gouvernement a conclu une entente avec le géant pharmaceutique GSK pour obtenir 500 000 doses du vaccin humain contre la grippe aviaire.

Transport

3 w. ago First Quantum Minerals Announces Cash Tender Offer to Purchase Its Outstanding 6.875% Senior Notes Due 2027 in a Maximum Aggregate Principal Amount of Up to $500,000,000

  (In United States dollars, except where noted otherwise) TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (“First Quantum” or the “Company”) (TSX: FM) First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (the “Company” or “First Quantum”) (TSX: FM) today announced that it has commenced an offer to purchase for cash (the “Tender Offer”) its outstanding […]

Economics