Bitcoin was lumped in with other speculative investments during the run-up of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s last tightening cycle, slumping on expectations higher interest rates would damp the appetite for risk. Now with optimism growing again that borrowing costs could soon be heading lower, advocates of the biggest cryptocurrency are saying its more akin to high growth assets such as the shares of technology companies.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre needs to clarify where he stands on industrial carbon pricing, says the new head of a major oilsands group that aims to bring the industry's emissions to net-zero largely through the potential construction of a massive carbon-capture project that relies on carbon credits.
Être l’un des meilleurs de son sport ne rime pas toujours avec millions de dollars dans le compte en banque et voitures de luxe. Plusieurs athlètes québécois, peu soutenus financièrement, en arrachent et font des sacrifices afin de pouvoir continuer à pratiquer leur discipline: travailler jusqu’aux petites heures du matin, renoncer à être propriétaire, dormir en pension lors des tournois...