NEW YORK — Twitter plunged before the opening bell Friday on weak user numbers, a day after a historic rout at Facebook. Twitter, like other social media platforms, says it’s putting its platform over user growth. That leaves investors seemingly unable to value what the biggest companies in the sector, which rely on their potential
A Toronto van attack that took the lives of 10 people and injured 16 others hit the city hard on Monday. To pay respect to the victims, the City of Toronto dimmed the lights of the CN Tower and the Toronto sign in Nathan Phillips Square. The “official flags at Toronto City Hall, all Civic
A maintenance worker at a primary school in Beijing was arrested after going on a rampage with a hammer, injuring at least 20 pupils. Students were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, with the three that suffered the most serious injuries now in stable condition, according to police. Surnamed Jia, 49, a contractor hired
The world around us is changing rapidly. Climate change is no longer a problem in our distant future — we see its effects all around us with sea levels rising, mass migration and the increased frequency and severity of tropical storms and hurricanes. Movements for gun control and social justice are on the rise. More
The auction of three alleged watercolours by Adolf Hitler was stopped in Berlin when police seized the paintings shortly before they were due to go under the hammer on Thursday. The police action had nothing to do with the longstanding controversy over the trade in artworks by Hitler. Instead the paintings were seized as suspected
TORONTO — President’s Choice Financial’s credit card nabbed the highest customer satisfaction rating in J.D. Power’s inaugural Canada credit card study, beating out American Express, Canadian Tire and all the Big Six banks’ offerings. The financial services brand of supermarket chain Loblaw Companies Ltd. had the highest score of 788 on the study, which examines
WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Congress are warning that newspapers in their home states are in danger of cutting coverage or going out of business if the U.S. maintains recently imposed tariffs on Canadian newsprint. The Trump administration ordered the tariffs in response to a complaint from a paper producer in Washington state. It
If you’ve ever thought natural makeup was boring, you’ve never heard of Rose Marie Swift. The makeup artist slash green beauty mogul (she’s the founder of cult-favourite brand RMS Beauty) is as colourful as her rainbow of frosted pots. “Matte skin doesn’t look sexual. Skin has to look sexual,” she tells me, before inquiring about
South Korea will hold its largest ever investigation into sexual abuse in sports, its human rights watchdog said on Tuesday, after an Olympic speed skating star accused her former coach of abuse and triggered a wave of similar accounts from athletes. The inquiry will aim to address "systematic, sustained" abuse in sports, which had been
OTTAWA — Canada would have to cut its emissions almost in half over the next 12 years to meet the stiffer targets dozens of international climate change experts say is required to prevent catastrophic results from global warming. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there will be irreversible changes and the entire