National Business

Unlike Iceland, where geothermal resources account for 30 per cent of electricity production, or California, which has 650 active geothermal wells, Canada has lagged behind.

BERLIN (AP) — Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis more than two decades later, has died. He was 81.

Roughly a third of people aged 15 to 49 do not intend to have kids at all — and when it comes to financial planning, they're underserved, experts say.

TORONTO — The founder of Canadian men's clothing retailer Harry Rosen Inc. has died at 92.

VANCOUVER — When parents come into Michelle Pezel's skateboard shop on Vancouver's Main Street around Christmas, they often ask where their kids can go to practise.

In doing a financial refresh for the new year, the first order of business is to identify what worked well for you over the past 12 months.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — More than a year after it was put up for sale, Manchester United said Sunday that British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe had agreed to buy a minority stake in the storied Premier League club.

OTTAWA — As another inflation-fighting year wraps up, the Bank of Canada's quest to restore price stability is expected to begin drawing to a close in 2024.

Moneris issued a social media post today saying all systems are operational despite the current issue, but the network slowness "may affect transactions."

TORONTO — Streaming television forever changed how Canadians watch their favourite shows, offering a seemingly bottomless library of commercial-free programming for a dirt-cheap price.