The Canadian government’s auction of cellphone wireless sprctrum moved closer to a billion dollars on Wednesday on its second day, with Quebecor so far the biggest spender.
The Montreal-based media company has committed more than $255 million while incumbent Telus Corp. is in second place and holds the most high bids.
Industry Canada’s auction of spectrum, the [...]

An oil sketch by Tom Thomson has sold for $1,957,500, including buyer’s premium, at a Sotheby’s auction.
“Pine Trees at Sunset,” depicts the silhouettes of three trees set against a blazing sunset.
Thomson was one of the first painters to focus on the Canadian landscape, favouring northern Ontario’s Algonquin Park with a style that would heavily influence [...]

The spectrum auction bid by U.S.-based M/C Venture and Columbia Capital and Quebec-based Novacap has been withdrawn due to foreign ownership restrictions and not enough Canadian money, M/C Venture’s Sal Tirabassi said Friday.
The wireless spectrum auction begins on Tuesday and is designed to bring more competition to Canada’s multibillion-dollar cellphone market.
A 105-megahertz band of spectrum [...]

On Thursday, Heffel Fine Art Auction House held one of the top Canadian fine art auctions in history.
The auction was the first of Canada’s major spring auctions, featuring 164 lots, one which sold for just over a million dollars.
Works by Group of Seven artists Frederick Horsman Varley and A.Y. Jackson sold for more than half-a-million [...]

Canada Post has introduced a new, flat-rate shipping fee to make it easier to buy and sell goods using online auction site eBay.
Canada Post and eBay have cooperated on shipping systems in the past. The “Flat Rate Box” is a new co-branded product. The idea is designed to help sellers, who sometimes refrain from including [...]

Five Thomson sketches are coming up for auction, three by Heffel at its spring sale on May 22 in Vancouver; one by Sotheby’s Canada in association with Ritchies in Toronto on May 26; and one by Joyner Waddington’s the following day, also in Toronto.

The 23rd annual Calypso Auction is being held on May 9.
As in previous years there will be a silent auction, prize packages, card game, arms length ticket game and trivia challenge in addition to the auction itself.
For tickets for the event contact Kim Baker at the Calypso office. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for viewing [...]