Shares of payment processing superstar Visa (NYSE: V) jumped 10.8% in January according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Visa posted an excellent first-quarter earnings report on Jan. 26 and is benefiting from strengthening economic trends. Visa is the largest credit card payment processing network in the world.
Jake Mintz & Jordan Shusterman talk about Aaron Boone's controversial ejection from Monday's game, how the Orioles did more than just tank to get where they are now and respond to some listener emails.
MONTREAL — The Quebec government has awarded the organization that manages Montreal's Olympic Stadium up to $40 million to pay for repairs and decontamination after a March 21 fire. Parc olympique spokesman Cédric Essiminy says extensive decontamination work is needed in the stadium's tower because smoke spread throughout the building. He says around nine kilometres of ventilation ducts need to be cleaned, as do offices located in the tower. Essiminy says the stadium's tower and an attached spor
Tour De Fort will hold the closing concert of its 30th anniversary season featuring the jazz stylings of Angelique Francis. The Tour De Fort show kicks off a string of northwestern Ontario shows. Francis says the shows are high-energy and she likes to take the audience through a variety of genres and styles. “For those of you who have been to an Angelique Francis show, come prepared to laugh, dance and have a great time,” Francis said. “It’s really lively and energetic, and we take you to a wide
TORONTO — Jockey Patrick Husbands, who rode Canada's last Triple Crown winner, topped the '24 class named for induction into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Husbands, 50, guided Wando to a sweep of the Canadian Triple Crown in 2003 for owner Gustav Schickedanz and trainer Mike Keogh. Wando, Schickedanz and Keogh all preceded Husbands into the Hall of Fame. Husbands, a resident of Brampton, Ont., is a three-time winner of the $1-million King's Plate and has been named Canada'
Threads is testing a new archive feature that can be used to manually archive individual posts or automatically hide posts after a set period of time, Adam Mosseri shared.
There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies, a nihilistic impulse, a pathological self-loathing that threatens to destroy our way of life. We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and most technologically advanced polities in history, and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles possible, to tear down every institution and tradition.
HALIFAX — After last summer's deadly floods, heat waves and record-breaking wildfires, some scientists are urging Canadian health professionals to take an active role in helping their patients better prepare for extreme weather. Scientist Blair Feltmate told a national public health conference today in Halifax there are inexpensive and effective ways of reducing harm caused by climate-related disasters. Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, told
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office will conduct investigate Dallas Denney’s conduct to determine whether she violated any policies and whether “professional discipline” is warranted.
According to a report, Ottawa is weighing a list of dozen foreign grocery companies to lure to the country, including Germany's Aldi and Lidl.
The 2025 BMW i4 and 4 Series Gran Coupe get tiny cosmetic tweaks and new 48V mild hybrid help, with most of the work done on the in-cabin technology.
One of the two pilots aboard an airplane carrying fuel reported there was a fire on the airplane shortly before it crashed and burned outside Fairbanks, killing both people on board, a federal aviation official said Wednesday. The pilot had made radio contact about the in-fight emergency shortly after taking off, said Clint Johnson, head of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska regional office. Alaska state troopers say no survivors were found.
Daniel Shirey/GettyA young George W. Bush was apparently so rattled by his wife’s brutal honesty about a subpar speech that he accidentally crashed their car.That’s according to Jenna Bush Hager, who had the Today show crew in stitches on Wednesday when she shared the hilarious bit of family lore. “It’s funny that you bring up speeches because when my parents were first married, my dad gave a speech in Midland, Texas, and they were driving up and he thought [that was] pretty good. And he said, ‘
For The Valley star and Vanderpump Rules alum Jax Taylor (both on Hayu(, a recent trip to Canada was seemingly a great respite for the reality TV star.
Terrorgram will become the sixth extreme right wing terrorist group to be banned in the UK, on the list of 81 banned organisations.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration unveiled plans on Wednesday to hold up to a dozen auctions of offshore wind development rights through 2028, including four before the end of this year. The schedule will help companies, states and others plan for projects that require massive amounts of investment and infrastructure, the Interior Department said in a statement. Interior has held just four offshore wind auctions since Biden took office in 2021.
A federal investigation has concluded that a young Black man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a rural Missouri home, not at the hands of the white homeowner who had a history of racist social media postings, an FBI official told The Associated Press Wednesday. Derontae Martin, 19, was at a prom party on April 25, 2021, when he died in an attic closet. Relatives of Martin and others questioned that finding, and a jury at a coroner's inquest later ruled that Martin died by “violence," prompting the FBI investigation.
Stacey Dooley's former Strictly Come Dancing co-stars have celebrated her casting as Jenny in acclaimed play 2:22 A Ghost Story.
A Relative Strength Rating upgrade for Confluent shows improving technical performance. Will it continue?
After an open call for artwork, the Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre has 50 pieces from 27 artists in its latest exhibit entitled Community Ties & Tapestries: Fibre Artists of the Rainy River District. Museum Curator Danielle Marshall says the work is diverse across a range of different media. She did her best to describe some aspects of the exhibit and didn’t want to leave any out, though she didn’t get to all of the pieces. "We have a wide variety of pieces. We have a really cool one wh
Former US President Donald Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case in Michigan investigating more than a dozen people accused of acting as fake electors in the 2020 election.Footage by Brendan Gutenschwager shows state investigator Howard Shock naming Trump as a co-conspirator in the case, along with Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.Shock’s testimony was heard on the sixth day of pre-trial hearings.The Michigan Attorney General announced the charges against 16 state residents last year, alleging they submitted false documents in “a coordinated effort to award the state’s electoral votes to the candidate of their choosing, in place of the candidates actually elected by the people of Michigan.” Credit: Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful
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