Open this photo in gallery: Pedestrians walk past an RBC branch in Toronto, on May 15.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Canada’s biggest banks report their fourth-quarter earnings this week, covering the three months that ended Oct. 31, as the cost of borrowing drops and swaths of fixed-rate loans come up …
Read More »How much did Gildan’s CEO battle cost its shareholders? Take our business quiz for the week of May 31
Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s business and investing news quiz. Join us each week to test your knowledge of the stories making the headlines. Our business reporters come up with the questions, and you can show us what you know. This week: Royal Bank of Canada posted second-quarter profit …
Read More »What reason did the Royal Family give for heavily editing a photo of the Princess of Wales? Take our news quiz for the week of March 16
Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s news quiz. Join us each week to test your knowledge of the stories making the headlines. This week: All eyes are on Catherine, Princess of Wales. That is, if our eyes can be trusted. Catherine, 42, has been out of the public eye since …
Read More »Royal genes? Science offers a reality check on King Charles’s ancestral lineage
Open this photo in gallery: The Bayeux tapestry, which depicts Britain’s conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066, pictured on Sept. 13, 2019, in Bayeux, France.LOIC VENANCE/Getty Images The coronation of King Charles III on Saturday may elicit excitement or indifference, but regardless of one’s opinion of the ceremony there …
Read More »A stay at Prince Edward County’s revamped Royal Hotel is a journey in local details
The Royal Hotel has anchored Picton, Ont.’s Main Street since 1879. Built to service an influx of commercial travellers and tourists brought into the area by the Prince Edward County railway, it was, according to The Settler’s Dream, a pictorial history of the County’s older buildings, the grandest accommodation in …
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