Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Poorest should get EU climate fund sooner, lawmakers say
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A new fund to support Europe's poorest households during the shift to green energy should kick in a year earlier than planned, in 2024, an early draft of European P...
Jan 18, 2022
Toronto's full fleet of ploughs clear snow-covered streets
(Reuters) - Hundreds of ploughs cleared the streets of Toronto on Tuesday as weather conditions eased after a day of heavy snow storms in southeastern Canada. A low pressure system tracking south of t...
Jan 18, 2022
Canadian natural disasters caused insured losses of C$2.1 billion in 2021
TORONTO (Reuters) - Severe weather events in Canada caused insured losses of C$2.1 billion ($1.68 billion) last year, making 2021 the sixth-costliest since 1983, the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) s...
Jan 18, 2022
Ice hockey-Premier Hockey Federation unveils $25 million investment plan
(Reuters) - The Premier Hockey Federation said on Tuesday it has received a commitment from its board of governors to go ahead with what it called the largest, one-time independent investment in the h...
Jan 18, 2022
Greece to ban development in mountain areas to protect habitats
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will forbid new road building and development in six of its mountain areas, taking a first step to protect its last remaining virgin habitats, Environment Minister Kostas Skr...
Jan 18, 2022
AT&T to delay some 5G deployment in bid to address aviation standoff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T said Tuesday it had voluntarily agreed to temporarily defer turning on a limited number of towers around certain airport runways in a bid to address an aviation safety stan...
Jan 18, 2022
NFT marketplace OpenSea buys crypto wallet Dharma Labs, changes CTO
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - NFT marketplace OpenSea on Tuesday said it had bought Dharma Labs, a digital wallet for cryptocurrencies, for an undisclosed amount, and said Dharma's chief executiv...
Jan 18, 2022
U.S. antitrust enforcers plan to toughen merger guidelines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers announced plans on Tuesday to rewrite merger guidelines in order to better fight illegal deals. The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission...
Jan 18, 2022
Scotiabank investors see Citi's Mexican unit as good fit, CEO downplays interest
By Nichola Saminather TORONTO (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) shareholders are urging Canada's No. 3 lender to seriously examine the Mexican consumer banking unit being sold by Citigroup,...
Jan 18, 2022
Telsa investors urge judge to order Musk repay $13 billion for SolarCity deal
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - Tesla Inc shareholders urged a judge on Tuesday to find Elon Musk coerced the company's board into a 2016 deal for SolarCity and asked that the chief executive ...
Jan 18, 2022
