Aerospace
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Emerging trends fundamentally changing Canadian businesses, says BDC report
Embracing digital technology and workforce diversity are just two of the key business trends identified by BDC’s most recent report
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Ottawa to reduce small business tax rate to 9 per cent
The addition of a tax cut to the federal Liberal government’s small business tax reform plan appears to be the political equivalent of a spoonful of sugar to quell an angry backlash to proposed tax reform
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Commercial plane hits drone near Quebec City, suffers minor damage
A small Skyjet plane carrying eight passengers collided with a drone about three kilometres from Quebec City’s airport last week, the first such case in Canada
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Toronto’s Pearson Airport’s ground crew ends strike against employer Swissport
The 700 ramp equipment operators, baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and other ground crew workers went on strike July 27 to protest pay and benefits cuts and scheduling issues
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Trump’s ‘break it now, fix it later’ tactic creating chaos at NAFTA talks
Officials from other countries say the “sheepish” body language of U.S. negotiators, who have tabled demands beyond the realm of what’s palatable to the other parties, speaks volumes as to how they perceive Trump’s chaos-inducing tactics
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Boeing will have difficulty proving harm from Bombardier, says analyst
Boeing is actually performing very well in all of the factors examined by trade investigators to determine harm, including sales, market share, profits, employment, wages and ability to raise capital
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U.S. drops bombshell ‘sunset clause’ in NAFTA talks, and vows more
America’s so-called NAFTA partners are baffled by the new demands and are trying to figure if this hardline approach signals a U.S desire to poison the talks, let them collapse and simply do away with NAFTA
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Trudeau acknowledges NAFTA gloom, says he’s ready for anything
The Prime Minister admitted that talks have been challenging while Mexico’s foreign relations secretary said his country would not sign a bad deal, adding that leaving the treaty “would not be the end of the world”
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Delta Air Lines says CSeries delivery may be delayed, won’t be cancelled
“We intend to take the aircraft,” said Delta CEO Ed Bastian in a conference call with analysts, adding he thinks Delta will get the planes without having to pay the 300 per cent in duties
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Former PM Stephen Harper breaks silence on NAFTA, and it’s not pretty
The former Conservative leader, who’s an ardent free trader, said powerful anti-trade forces that extend beyond Trump’s presidency are at play in American society and aren’t going away any time soon