Business

Travelers hustling through Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport might not notice Porter Airlines’ understated logo, but the world has begun to take note. Against steep odds, this Canadian carrier has quietly claimed the highest honour in global economy class rankings for 2025, leaving industry titans trailing in its slipstream. On November 5, USA TODAY unveiled its […]

In Toronto’s busy grocery aisles, a new pilot project is quietly rewriting the way budget-conscious shoppers tally up their baskets. At select No Frills stores, the hum of conversation is now joined by the soft glow of smartphones—and a promise of real-time transparency. Loblaw Companies Limited, parent of No Frills, has launched pcogo, an experimental

Boxes of undelivered flyers crowd the back rooms of small shops, silent witnesses to a nation holding its breath. In the uneasy pause between mail pickups, business owners calculate the cost of missed connections and wonder if relief is truly at hand. Rotating strikes at Canada Post have thrown a wrench into the daily machinery

Sixty-six thousand jobs vanished from the Canadian economy in August, driving the unemployment rate to 7.1 percent—the highest outside the pandemic era since 2016, according to fresh figures from Statistics Canada. The August labour report delivered a jolt to both policymakers and workers, revealing a loss that outpaced economic forecasts. Instead of a minor increase,

Under the unassuming glow of a bank lobby in Bradford, what appeared to be three crisp $100 bills set a quiet drama in motion—one that now reverberates through Simcoe County’s shops, markets, and kitchen tables. The South Simcoe police have issued a warning after a local resident unwittingly accepted counterfeit $100 bills during an ordinary

Bayfield Mall’s reputation as a ‘dead mall’ lingered over Barrie’s north end like a stubborn shadow, but signs of life are starting to emerge amid the thrum of construction and anticipation. In recent months, Sky Development Group has bet big on revival. At the helm, Teekay Akinyemi, director of property management, points to the 480,000-square-foot

Long before the dust settled on Capitol Hill, the ripple of changing trade winds was already brushing the storefronts of Dunlop Street. In Ontario, the true impacts of global policy aren’t measured in headlines but in the careful recalibration of a shipping manifest or the nervous optimism of a local shopkeeper crunching numbers over stale

Shoppers in Barrie are bracing for another round of inflation data this week, as the impact of tariffs and the latest consumer price index take centre stage in local economic conversations. The July inflation report, set for release on Tuesday, is drawing keen interest across Barrie, where residents are already feeling the effects of higher