Monthly Archives: September 2013

With the fate of the Keystone XL Pipeline project in U.S President Barack Obama’s hands, Prime Minister Stephen Harper remained adamant in underlining that he would “keep pushing forward” for the completion of the project. 1 Harper, who stood in front of a group of business leaders in New York, continued to accentuate the potential positives of the proposed project, Harper proclaimed that with negligible environmental impact and with prospective economic benefits, “the logic behind [the] project is overwhelming”. 1 […]

Image by Mobilicity via the Cellular Guru   The battle for cellphone frequencies continue to rage as “The Big Three” -Rogers, Bell and Telus- remain entangled with the federal government in a struggle for new wireless spectrum. Now, Canadian consumers must choose between the phone giants and the Canadian government. On one side, the Big Three have emphasized that by gaining greater spectrum, they would be able to create jobs while defending the Canadian industry from foreign mega-corporations such as […]

Image by Jamie Sturgeon via Global News   Following an immense second quarter loss of close to one billion dollars -largely due to its vastly unsold inventory-, BlackBerry is headlining Business news once again; though, for a different reason. On Monday, September 23, BlackBerry Ltd. accepted a purchase offer by a group led by Toronto based Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. The news emerged merely days after BlackBerry’s massive quarterly losses but amidst the negativity, the deal may signal a positive […]

Image by vrangnarr via Redbubble   Apple, the World’s most valuable company, is making headlines again. In light of its new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C products, reports have surfaced revealing a series of legal and ethical violations in a factory in Wuxi, China, where the newly unveiled iPhone 5C is being manufactured. According to an undercover investigation by the China Labor Watch, “hiring discrimination, illegally inadequate pre-work training and millions of dollars in unpaid overtime wages”1 are just some of […]