March 14, 2025

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Finance

How Mark Carney’s choice of finance minister shows he wants to shake things up

Open this photo in gallery: Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s prime minister on March 14, taking charge of a country rattled by a breakdown in U.S. relations since President Donald Trump’s return to power.DAVE CHAN/AFP/Getty Images Mark Carney wants to move fast and build things. There was nothing subtle about the new Prime

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Finance

U.K.’s new finance chief pitches Bay Street on plan to boost investment in Britain

Open this photo in gallery: Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer for Britain, speaks during an interview at the British Consulate in Toronto on Aug 7.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Britain’s Labour Party romped to victory last month over the incumbent Conservatives with a focus on economic growth and a promise of fiscal restraint aimed

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Finance

CrowdStrike Software Update Causes Worldwide Chaos in Travel and Finance

New York. A faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused worldwide disruptions on Friday, grounding flights, affecting financial firms and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses, and government offices. The update affected CrowdStrike customers running Microsoft Windows. CrowdStrike confirmed the issue was not due to hacking or a cyberattack and apologized, stating a

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Finance

Gail Vaz-Oxlade on how her first job taught her tenacity: ‘Once I passed that spot, I could smell the money’

Open this photo in gallery: Author Gail Vaz-Oxlade in Toronto on Jan. 6, 2010.JENNIFER ROBERTS/The Globe and Mail Finance guru and Til Debt Do Us Part host Gail Vaz-Oxlade didn’t always know about money … because she didn’t have any. In 1977, the new immigrant faced big changes and challenges. In Canada, if she wanted

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Mortgage

Opinion: A mortgage crisis still looms for Canada, for the worst is yet to come

Open this photo in gallery: Rising rates also make houses less affordable. Andrew Auerbach and Jean Blacklock are contributing columnists for The Globe and Mail. They are co-founders of Delisle Advisory Group, an independent wealth management firm serving high-net-worth families. In 2020, in the face of soaring house prices and increasing household debt, Canada’s largest

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Funds

Funds to breathe new life into North Khorasan’s tourism

TEHRAN – Some national funds have been allocated to the North Khorasan province, situated in northeastern Iran, to restore its historical buildings and develop vital tourism infrastructure, a local official noted. North Khorasan’s director-general of cultural heritage, tourism, and handicrafts, announced the allocation of approximately $1 million from national funds for the cultural heritage, handicrafts,

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Mortgage

Aussie couple reveal how they’ve been able to quit their 9-to-5 jobs and travel the world while paying off a mortgage: ‘Best decision ever’

By Carina Stathis For Daily Mail Australia 16:26 07 Jul 2024, updated 16:39 07 Jul 2024 A young couple have turned their backs on Australia and the cost-of-living crisis to  see the world. Brittany Trovarelli and Mitchell Taylor, both 28 and from Melbourne, quit their 9-to-5 jobs and left in February to travel indefinitely. It’s

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Funds

IATA Urges Pakistan, Bangladesh To Release Blocked Airline Funds

The International Air Transport Association on Tuesday urged Pakistan and Bangladesh to remove barriers to airlines repatriating ticket revenues after Nigeria released the vast majority of blocked funds. Pakistan and Bangladesh collectively owe $731 million out of a global total of $1.8 billion in blocked airline funds, according to the world trade body. Several countries

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Finance

Expensify to Add Travel Features to Financial Platform

Expensify will add travel booking and management capabilities to its financial management platform for expenses and corporate cards. The new Expensify Travel will begin rolling out next week in the Expensify web and mobile apps and will later be integrated into the new chat-based super app, New Expensify, the company said in a Wednesday (May

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