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An Apple store in New York, on Oct. 16, 2019. MIKE SEGAR/Reuters As Canada’s top telecommunications companies face pressure to ensure Canadians can reach emergency responders in the event of a major outage, Apple AAPL-Q is rolling out a new service that will accomplish just that. The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant says its new Emergency SOS system, available on iPhone 14 devices in Canada this week, will help people without cellular or Wi-Fi service connect to a satellite to report an emergency or call for help in even the most remote locations. “There are always places that you will never be able to fully cover with cell towers like national parks or rural areas, and so when there is an emergency it becomes a problem very fast,” said Maxime Veron, Apple’s director of iPhone product marketing. “Imagine that you are hiking, for instance, and you’re on your own and you fall and break something or you roll your ankle, and the night is coming and you haven’t seen anyone for an hour. You k...

The most important part of a conversation may not be the actual conversation. It may be the stories in our mind that we bring to the conversation, hampering our contributions and understanding. “In our interactions, we aren’t transmitting and receiving data like TVs and radios – signal sent, signal received. Unlike radio antennas, our reception of others’ words is rarely straightforward because of our big, beautiful, filtering, sense making brain,” consultant and seasoned mediator Chuck Wisner writes in The Art of Conscious Conversations. Of course, the same thing is happening for our conversation partner. “What we say isn’t what someone else heard, and what someone else says isn’t what we hear,” he says. To have a healthy collaborative conversation, we need to hold our stories lightly and learn to ask questions. We need to seek to understand, not being afraid of the collaboration’s dynamic give and take. Conversations are with others, but we need to be aware of the conversation with...

The Canadian dollar CADUSD gained slightly against its broadly weaker U.S. counterpart on Thursday after the Federal Reserve sent a dovish signal on the pace of interest rate hikes and as oil prices steadied. The loonie was up 0.1% at 1.3340 to the greenback, or 74.96 U.S. cents, in a quiet North American session with U.S. markets closed for Thanksgiving. The currency traded in a range of 1.3317 to 1.3362. “The USD tone remains defensive,” Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at Scotiabank, said in a note. The greenback swooped towards a three-month low against a basket of major currencies and world shares touched a two-month high after minutes from the Fed’s latest meeting, released on Wednesday, pointed to a slower pace of U.S. rate rises from next month. The Bank of Canada has already downshifted the pace of its rate increases but is likely not done yet with tightening. Money markets are pricing in a 25 basis point move at the next policy decision on Dec. 7. “Resilient growth,...

Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne responds during Question Period in November. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press The Canadian government is proposing to toughen scrutiny of foreign takeovers, citing national security concerns, just weeks after its new Indo-Pacific policy identified China as an “increasingly disruptive” power. “The world has vastly changed in the last few years,” Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said as he unveiled a package of changes to the Investment Canada Act that he said represented the most significant update in more than a decade. “That’s why we must be prepared to face the challenges that could endanger our economic security and national security.” China is not mentioned by name – and the government insists the rules apply equally to all countries – but the changes are geared toward stopping the transfer of intellectual property or trade secrets to foreign countries. “Geopolitics has changed and we need to chang...