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Don’t snooze on cruises 🚢 — Ontario tries to bolster the trades, Cruise IPO sets sail, Houthis expand attacks.
Ontario is hoping the promise of less time sitting in the classroom will convince more students to swap their notebooks for hard hats.
As post-IPO performances from shoe brands and vanity social media platforms disappoint, investors are looking to the Seven Seas for new buys.
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Ready to roll — Trans Mountain expansion opens, Businesses are jet-setting, Saying bye to coal.
For the last decade, the Trans Mountain pipeline has been like the kid that just keeps asking their parents for more money. Today, it finally has something to show for all that cash.
After a three-year hiatus, business travellers are wiping the dust off their old carry-ons and saying sayonara to their home offices.
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Fed-up grocers 🛒 — Fed-up shoppers plot Loblaw boycott. Feds impose new cap on foreign student work hours
For thousands of Canadians, their relationship with Loblaws has reached the breaking point.
Many of us feel like we work too many hours, though almost none of us are told this by the federal government.
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Prime time 🏀 — Amazon locks up NBA deal, the Yen keeps falling.
Amazon is spending billions of dollars to make sure fans have to get Prime to watch the Raptors lose.
Now might be a good time to book that trip to Japan you’ve been dreaming of because your loonie is going to go a lot further than it used to.
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Productivity problems 📉 — Honda’s $15 billion EV bet, The GDP per capita dips.
Like a rapper officially releasing a leaked diss track, Honda has dropped a long-awaited project that’s making waves throughout the industry.
Even with AI tools, highly caffeinated beverages, and a roster of podcasts eager to tell us all how to work “smarter,” Canadians are in a bit of a productivity slump.
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Healthy pop 🥤 — Indigenous investing rises, Healthy pop is popping off.
Just like a space probe hurtling through deep space, Indigenous investing is only going up.
The way things are trending, a nice fizzy drink could soon replace your morning vitamins.
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