http://www2.macleans.ca Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Thu, 23 May 2013 21:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/29/visa-customers-able-to-swipe-cards-again-after-temporary-outage-2/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/29/visa-customers-able-to-swipe-cards-again-after-temporary-outage-2/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:20:36 +0000 The Canadian Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=343874 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/29/visa-customers-able-to-swipe-cards-again-after-temporary-outage-2/feed/ 0 TORONTO – A nationwide Visa outage appeared to be resolved by Monday night as... http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/28/visa-customers-able-to-swipe-cards-again-after-temporary-outage/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/28/visa-customers-able-to-swipe-cards-again-after-temporary-outage/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:02:12 +0000 The Canadian Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=343834 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/28/visa-customers-able-to-swipe-cards-again-after-temporary-outage/feed/ 0 TORONTO – A nationwide Visa outage appeared to be resolved by Monday night as... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/21/rbc-drops-expiry-date-most-fees-on-prepaid-visa-cards-in-wake-of-federal-reform/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/21/rbc-drops-expiry-date-most-fees-on-prepaid-visa-cards-in-wake-of-federal-reform/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:36:33 +0000 The Canadian Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=317552 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/21/rbc-drops-expiry-date-most-fees-on-prepaid-visa-cards-in-wake-of-federal-reform/feed/ 0 TORONTO – With an eye to the holiday shopping season, the Royal Bank has... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/07/genius-work/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/07/genius-work/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:50:01 +0000 Ken MacQueen http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=310263 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/07/genius-work/feed/ 0 The billionaire co-creator of Twitter wants to change the world again—this time, rethinking the way we shop http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/23/ottawa-moves-to-regulate-prepaid-credit-cards-will-ban-expiry-dates/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/23/ottawa-moves-to-regulate-prepaid-credit-cards-will-ban-expiry-dates/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:24:57 +0000 The Canadian Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=306466 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/23/ottawa-moves-to-regulate-prepaid-credit-cards-will-ban-expiry-dates/feed/ 0 OTTAWA – Ottawa is stepping in with new rules for the largely unregulated prepaid... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/11/the-credit-card-killer/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/11/the-credit-card-killer/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:20:01 +0000 Alex Ballingall http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/12/the-credit-card-killer/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/11/the-credit-card-killer/feed/ 0 A startup in Des Moines, Iowa takes aim at transactions now routinely handled by credit cards http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/07/credit-card-tricks/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/07/credit-card-tricks/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:25:22 +0000 Chris Sorensen http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=199572 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/07/credit-card-tricks/feed/ 3 Why having a new microchip card in your wallet doesn’t mean you’re safe from fraudsters http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/29/policy-alert-3/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/29/policy-alert-3/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:42:03 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=180072 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/29/policy-alert-3/feed/ 53 Jack Layton promises a cap on credit card rates. The first policy announcement from... http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/09/04/the-us-debt-problem-now-a-minor-motion-picture/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/09/04/the-us-debt-problem-now-a-minor-motion-picture/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:37:14 +0000 Duncan Hood http://macleans.wordpress.com/?p=7002 http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/09/04/the-us-debt-problem-now-a-minor-motion-picture/feed/ 4 You just know that personal debt in the U.S. has got outta hand when...