Allison Martell
Recent Stories By Allison Martell:
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Bundles of debt: how lenders sidestep Canada’s mortgage rulesJanuary 11, 2017
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's subprime mortgage providers are increasingly teaming up with unregulated rivals to sidestep rules designed to clamp down on risky lending.The result of these partnerships...
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BlackBerry boosts outlook on software growth; concerns remainDecember 20, 2016
WATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd , helped by its higher-margin software business, reported better-than-expected adjusted earnings and raised its full-year growth forecast on Tuesday,...
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Canada union approves Fiat Chrysler contract; Ford nextOctober 17, 2016
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian manufacturing workers at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles voted on Sunday to approve a tentative labor agreement with the automaker, their union said, averting a strike and...
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BlackBerry to cut fewer than 100 jobs with hardware move: CEOSeptember 28, 2016
"If I decide not to go ahead with that phone, you may have seen the last BlackBerry-designed phone," John Chen told reporters at the company's Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters. (Reporting by Alastair...
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BlackBerry exits smartphone design with outsourcing plan; shares riseSeptember 28, 2016
TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd will outsource the development and design of its smartphones, a product category it helped pioneer and popularize, as the Canadian company bets on software and...
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Special Report: We were forced to work for Western-run mine, say migrants who fled EritreaSeptember 26, 2016
TORONTO/ASMARA (Reuters) - Bemnet Negash never got to say a proper goodbye to his family. In February 2006, government officials arrived at his school in the highlands of Eritrea and put him and his...
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From cars to college town, Canada's Motor City grows despite GM woesSeptember 19, 2016
OSHAWA, Ontario(Reuters) - In Oshawa, winning a spot on the line at General Motors isn’t the singular prize it used to be.As GM Oshawa workers fight for the plant’s survival and face what could be...
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GM and Canada union far apart on product as strike loomsSeptember 19, 2016
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's autoworkers' union Unifor and General Motors Co made little progress resolving the key issue of new investment in contract talks late on Sunday, the union's president...
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Infidelity website Ashley Madison facing FTC probe, CEO apologizesJuly 5, 2016
TORONTO (Reuters) - The parent company of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison, hit by a devastating hack last year, is now the target of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigation, the new...
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BlackBerry ditches Classic, adding to smartphone future doubtsJuly 5, 2016
TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Tuesday it will stop making its Classic model, raising further doubts about the future of the smartphone pioneer's money-losing handset business as the...
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BlackBerry CEO confident on handset profit; results top expectationsJune 23, 2016
WATERLOO, Ontario/TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd Chief Executive John Chen expressed confidence on Thursday that he can make the company's trimmed-down handset business profitable by a self-...
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GM to add 700 engineering jobs in Canada June 10, 2016
OSHAWA, Ontario (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Friday it will expand its Canadian engineering base to reach a total of about 1,000 jobs in Canada's auto-making province of Ontario as it...