Heavy snow has shut down Interstate 90 near Buffalo, New York, leaving motorists stranded for more than 12 hours as of Thursday morning, with more snow on the way.
In the fall of 2003, Petra Cooper was president of McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education in Toronto, then a $47 million unit of McGraw-Hill. At 41, she was comfortable, successful -- and bored. The industry was being turned upside down by digital media, and a once-growth-oriented job was now all about cutting costs. "I saw the scope of the job getting smaller and smaller," Cooper recalls.
Hot dogs? Check. Fireworks? Check. Big Ben? Wait a minute...
A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario
The world's most populist film festival blasts off with a sexy drama from Ang Lee
One of the first things a visitor to Toronto notices is its diversity; the melange of architecture, cultures and food forges a town-like feel in what is undoubtedly a bustling metropolis. In fact, Toronto has attracted so many cultures to its shores that the United Nations deemed it the world's most multicultural city. So it's only fitting that the Huron tribe gave it the name "meeting place" almost five centuries ago.
No patience. Not collegial. Uncomfortable in the background. Reluctant to compromise. No respect for institutional traditions. Proven inability to suffer fools. Incapable of small talk. By any meas...
From his office overlooking Lake Ontario in Rochester, New York, Eastman Kodak CEO George Fisher exudes low-key confidence these days. How would he rate Kodak's performance, on a scale of one to te...
When the midwestern floodwaters finally crested after four months of rain, the submerged area from St. Paul, Minn. to St. Louis, Mo. was bigger than Lake Ontario. Damage totaled some $16 billion. A...
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