Pump pains
Gas prices soar across Canada with Montreal motorists hit hardest.
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- Gas prices are soaring in a number of Canadian cities. Motorists in Montreal suffered the worst of the blows after pump prices spiked 13 cents a litre overnight. So what’s behind the increases? Nothing, says gas price watcher Dan McTeague calling it “absurd and unjustified.” Making matters worse, Canadian are being duped by advertised fuel efficiency on new cars. Check out our infographic on Canada’s muddled mileage problem.
- It was a good quarter for pension fund managers and their six million Canadian beneficiaries. The market value of employer-sponsored, trusteed pension funds rose to $1.1 trillion in the first quarter, up 4.1% from the previous quarter. It was the best three-month period in roughly two years.
- Thinking of trading up your iPhone? Watch live coverage of the iPhone 5 event via CanadianBusiness.com.
- Everybody’s favourite baker, “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro is the 2012 U.S. national spokesperson for Life Insurance Awareness Month. In this video he talks about the importance of life insurance. Buddy’s dad died when he was just 17, and with no money coming in, Buddy had to take over the family business.
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