MONTREAL, JUNE 25, 2013 — Air Canada rouge fleet will grow to serve Mexico, Florida, Las Vegas and more of the Caribbean
“We are delighted with the response to Air Canada rouge’s inaugural summer season as it prepares for take-off July 1st,” said Calin Rovinescu, President and Chief Executive Officer, in Toronto for a pre-inaugural event with employees and media.
Billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (13) agreed to buy Telefonica SA (TEF)’s Irish unit for as much as 850 million euros ($1.1 billion), a year after failing to take over Ireland’s former phone monopoly Eircom Group.
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TORONTO, June 24, 2013 /CNW/ – Sun Life Financial is making a donation of $100,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to help people in southern Alberta, where tens of thousands were evacuated during the worst flooding to hit the region in decades.
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Sun Life Financial Inc. (SLF), Canada’s third-largest insurer, signed a C$150 million ($147 million) deal with the Canadian Wheat Board to take on the risk of funding its pension plan.
Sun Life will assume risk of inflation-linked pensions of the board’s members, the Toronto-based insurer said today in a statement. It’s the largest single-day purchase of inflation-linked annuities in Canada, Sun Life said.
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The rumours of a smaller tablet, or “phablet,” piqued the interest of developers and technology insiders at BlackBerry Live, a three-day conference that wrapped up today. BlackBerry executives delivered a lengthy list of new announcements this week at the smartphone maker’s annual conference, but the buzz has already shifted to what the company may be still hiding up its sleeve, including the possibility of a small tablet device.
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Playing sports can help boost leadership skills for female executives, according to accounting firm Ernst & Young.
A survey published today by the company said 55 percent of women in senior management and executive roles in the U.S. participated in sports at a university level, compared to 39 percent of other female managers. Almost three-quarters of the women surveyed said women who have competed in sports work more effectively in teams compared to those who haven’t.
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Manulife Financial Corp. (MFC), Canada’s largest insurer, will seek to benefit from Indonesia’s economic growth by adding staff and branches and teaming up with local banks, an executive said.
Manulife plans to have its 11 Asian units contribute 40 percent, or C$1.6 billion ($1.57 billion), of its core profit goal of C$4 billion in 2016, said Chris Bendl, chief executive officer of Manulife Indonesia.
Manulife Financial Corp. (MFC), Canada’s largest insurer, said its John Hancock unit reached a deal to acquire a broker-dealer and investment adviser firm from Symetra Financial Corp. to expand in the U.S.
Symetra Investment Services has about 280 registered representative and would become affiliated with the John Hancock Financial Network, Boston-based John Hancock said today in a statement. Terms weren’t disclosed.
St. George’s School, Vancouver congratulates the graduates of 2013 on their university acceptances. We see the potential for greatness in every boy who makes the commitment to learning and achievement. 134 Institutes around the globe are seeing the same potential.
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