Insurance

Service on a number of bus lines was paralyzed Monday morning after some unionized bus drivers working out of the STM's transport centre in Anjou refused to leave the depot. STM spokeswoman Isabelle Tremblay said the drivers have a problem with new rules from the SAAQ, Quebec's automobile insurance board, which come into …

The intersection of Kenaston and McGillivray boulevards was the site of more car crashes than any other spot in the city over the past five years, according to data from Manitoba Public Insurance. It's the same intersection where a pedestrian was hit and killed by a semi-trailer on Monday. It narrowly edged out the previous …

Thousands of layoffs that have hollowed out many of Calgary's downtown office towers are translating into tough times for health-care businesses that offer services covered by workplace insurance plans. Dentists, massage therapists and optometrists say they're cutting staff and getting by with lower profits as they wait …

Clow said her insurance company, Antigonish Farmers Mutual, sent a claims manager to her home in Glace Bay two days after the storm. The insurance company said it would pay to replace the roof, Clow said, a cost of upwards of $8,000.

A sudden interest rate increase that spikes borrowing costs, causes a big drop in house prices and leads to the failure of a domestic financial institution could cost Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. more than $1.1 billion in insurance losses, but the federal agency says it could weather the storm. The scenarios also …

Saskatchewan's finance minister says the government might have to rethink election promises in light of a greater revenue shortfall than anticipated. Finance Minister Kevin Doherty says he expects revenues to be down another $600 million due to less money raised from taxes and non-renewable resources. Doherty says the …

An increase in Manitoba road fatalities has one Winnipeg city councillor looking at zeroes. Janice Lukes wants Winnipeg to implement Vision Zero, a traffic safety initiative created in Sweden in 1994 that has a mandate of achieving zero fatalities on roads. There have been 98 road deaths in Manitoba in 2016, Manitoba …

A P.E.I. woman with young-onset Parkinson's disease can't wait until the new federal Genetic Non-Discrimination Act becomes law. Natasha McCarthy from Mount Albion, P.E.I., has two young children, and is afraid to apply for health and life insurance for them, believing they could be denied based on her Parkinson's diagnosis. …

Alberta's second-largest insurer admits it could have done things better in its response to the Fort McMurray wildfire. Wawanesa Insurance will review how the company performed in the aftermath of the wildfire, the company said in an interview with CBC News. It's tough," said Graham Haigh, Wawanesa's vice-president, business …

The Fort McMurray wildfire will shave about 0.1 per cent from Alberta's real GDP in 2016, but reconstruction efforts will reverse that trend over the next few years, according to a Conference Board of Canada report released Tuesday. The costliest natural disaster in Canadian history will result in $5.3-billion being injected …

The city of Yellowknife has attempted to improve public access to the waterfront on Latham Island for more than a decade, but local residents have fought council along the way. A similar initiative was opposed by residents in 2003, and looked at again by council in 2014. In a summary of comments compiled by the city, …

Even the simplest physical job used to be painful for Brenda McAlpine.  The Mississauga, Ont., woman is among the approximately 250,000 Canadians who suffer from an inflammatory bowel disease.  

Could Steve Norn be Canada's Smartest Person? Norn, a 40-year-old insurance broker originally from Fort Resolution, will be the first participant ever on the show from the Northwest Territories — an opportunity that he's not taking lightly. Norn will be one of 30 contestants on this season of Canada's Smartest Person, …

Get the Marketplace newsletter every Friday. The Hudson's Bay Company began in the era of the fur trade, but now wants to take on the big players in e-commerce, like Amazon. Emily Laprise hurt her eye pretty badly playing soccer. But the insurance company saw it differently: The company said she didn't hurt her eye badly …

Nancy Desrosiers was featured in a CBC Go Public story yesterday, after Industrial Alliance insurance refused to honour an accident insurance policy that would have awarded a $50,000 payout. Desrosiers' daughter, Emily Laprise, lost a significant portion of vision in her left eye after a hard hit by a soccer ball detached …

An Alberta man is warning others about the practices at a major used-car dealer in Calgary after buying a 2013 Dodge Ram 1500 with $37,538 in past insurance claims, which he says were undisclosed. "I was told three times, maybe four times, 'perfect condition,'" said Eric LaPlante, who bought the truck from the Gallery …