Replaces Cheryl L. Reed, who resigned over rewrites of paper's endorsements for the presidential primary
The Chicago Sun-Times today named Tom McNamee its editorial page editor after Cheryl L. Reed resigned, saying in a note to her staff she was "deeply troubled" the paper's presidential primary endorsements of Barack Obama and John McCain were subjected to "wholesale rewrites" by people outside the editorial board.
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Former newspaper baron Conrad Black is to report to a Florida federal prison by Monday afternoon to begin serving a 6˝-year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice.
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A deep sell-off hit North American stock markets on Friday as investors dumped equities amid continuing worries about the financial sector and the credit crunch.
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First-quarter profits at Royal Bank fell 17 per cent, with the bank citing higher writedowns and loan losses for the decline.
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Stock in Bank of Montreal hit a four-year low Friday as investors worried that the bank might have to take further writedowns on its investments in a couple of struggling trusts.
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Financial institutions across Canada say they're ready for any crowds that materialize as the clock winds down on the deadline to contribute to RRSPs.
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A growing number of states and cities say Wall Street ratings firms assign municipal borrowers inappropriately low credit scores, costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
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Known for its by-the-book culture, Wal-Mart is now encouraging its merchants to speak frankly about the products the chain carries on Checkoutblog.com.
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United Technologies made an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller machines and voting machines.
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Among the Hollywood developers scrambling to create original Internet programs, Michael Eisner is one of the very few who can claim early success.
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With high oil prices weighing on a struggling economy, OPEC is likely to keep output unchanged when its members meet Wednesday.
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Consumers and global companies benefited, but critics see pitfalls.
Four campaign seasons have come and gone since presidential hopeful H. Ross Perot warned that NAFTA would create a "giant sucking sound" of jobs going to Mexico, and the trade pact is still generating plenty of noise. Calls to renegotiate the 14-year-old deal are rising from both sides of the border.
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Technological advances reflect the need for mechanical helpers to replenish the workforce as the country's population gets older.
At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.
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The sub-prime debacle is spurring a big-money litigation free-for-all.
Insurance lawyer David Grais has been poring over equations in finance books to get up to speed on his new specialty: lawsuits stemming from the sub-prime mortgage debacle.
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The retailer's scores are set by an in-house critic, raising concerns over whether they are advice or ads.
Walk down the aisle of any Beverages & More store and you'll be confronted by boxes and bottles of wine -- and a bevy of wine scores. There are 89 points for the Sterling Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc and 90 points for a Beaulieu Vineyards Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon.
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For years, JetBlue Airways Corp. turned up its nose at flying out of Los Angeles International Airport, saying that LAX was too big, too crowded and, well, that it just preferred to operate out of smaller hubs.
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By the time St. Louis Children's Hospital called in its infectious-disease specialist Jan. 4 to diagnose a mysterious spike in allergic reactions to kidney dialysis, it was clear there was a major problem.
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MF Global case highlights vulnerabilities in system
Another week in the markets, another rogue trader losing a fortune.
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Housing, consumer debt bigger priorities
Even when stocks and the economy are humming along nicely, it's tough to convince our primitive instincts that we should sacrifice today to save for the future.
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Already-obsolete Blu-ray players latest example
T his is a column in two parts with a common theme: The frustrations consumer technologies often present.
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With little attention and few accolades, Patrick Shanahan has quietly turned around some of Boeing Co. 's most troubled and complex programs.
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The Bank of Canada slashed its key interest rate by half a percentage point to three per cent on Tuesday, as it warned of softer economic growth this year.
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The Stelmach government unveiled a budget Tuesday that promises to eliminate health-care premiums on Jan. 1, 2009.
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The average price of regular gasoline jumped almost a nickel in the past week to $1.23 a litre, according to a national pump price survey.
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Shares of Canadian Pacific Railway traded down more than four per cent after the company reported a fall in first-quarter profits and cut its earnings outlook for the year.
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EnCana Corp. doubled its quarterly dividend on Tuesday as the oil and gas company posted higher cash flow but lower earnings for the first quarter.
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A tentative deal to buy his third New York newspaper would tighten Rupert Murdoch’s grip on American news media.
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Rupert Murdoch appears likely to pose the first significant challenge to the media ownership rule that the Federal Communications Commission recently adopted.
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The UnitedHealth Group posted lower-than-expected first-quarter earnings and sharply reduced its outlook for 2008, saying fewer businesses and employees were signing up.
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Lawmakers are close to an agreement to clear the way for a bill prohibiting employers and insurers from discriminating on the basis of genetic tests.
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Online instructional videos — even for such arcane tasks as turning flashlights into lasers — are proving extraordinarily popular and lucrative.
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The number rises to 47,171 in the first quarter, more than four times as many as a year earlier.
Sinking home values and the collapse of flimsy mortgages fueled a record number of foreclosures in California in the first three months of this year, dimming prospects for any quick recovery in the housing market.
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It's perhaps the touchiest decision parents can make: whether to invite a total stranger into their home to look after the kids.
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The complaint alleges that the Irvine chip maker's top officials -- namely Henry Nicholas and Henry Samueli -- backdated stock options.
Broadcom Corp. on Tuesday agreed to pay $12 million to settle allegations that its top executives backdated stock options, but the Securities and Exchange Commission complaint did little to put the matter behind the billionaire co-founders of the Irvine chip maker.
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However, the federal proposal bars California from regulating auto greenhouse-gas emissions.
Proposed federal fuel-economy standards issued Tuesday would require cars and trucks to get an average of 31.6 miles per gallon by 2015, a significant increase over the current fleet. But the plan also included surprising language barring California and other states from regulating automobile greenhouse-gas emissions.
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