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Colonial Pipeline restarts operations days after major hack
May 12, 2021 - 6:43 PM

CLEMMONS, N.C. (AP) — The nation's largest fuel pipeline restarted operations Wednesday, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers.
Dependent on social media's marketing power, small businesses worry over iOS changes
May 05, 2021 - 1:38 PM

TORONTO - Like many small business owners, Siuleen Leibl relies on marketing through apps like Facebook and Instagram to reach more customers.
Metro profit and sales up despite labour conflict, mild cold and flu season
January 26, 2021 - 12:56 PM

MONTREAL - Against headwinds from a labour conflict and a mild cold and flu season, grocery and pharmacy retailer Metro Inc. posted higher first-quarter sales and profit on Tuesday compared with a year ago.
Demand for puzzles, plushies fails to offset higher-margin declines at Spin Master
August 06, 2020 - 1:00 PM

TORONTO - Closed schools, stores and movie theatres — and a lack of children's birthday parties — have been just a few of the COVID-19-related challenges for toymaker Spin Master.
Gildan suspends dividend, cuts executive pay after losing nearly US$100M in Q1
April 29, 2020 - 4:10 PM

MONTREAL - Gildan Activewear Inc. says it is suspending its quarterly dividend and cutting executive compensation after losing nearly US$100 million in its first quarter due to the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iowa governor: Tip from Ashton Kutcher led to testing deal
April 23, 2020 - 7:12 PM

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa’s $26 million contract to increase coronavirus testing was reached after the governor acted on a tip from actor Ashton Kutcher, a revelation that increased skepticism about the no-bid deal on Thursday.
New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating virus
April 21, 2020 - 7:11 PM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: eliminating it altogether.
Plants 'operating 24/7' to meet consumer demand for food amid COVID-19
April 19, 2020 - 7:30 AM

Campbell Soup Company's production goes into overdrive during what executives dub "soup season." Starting in October and ending with the close of winter, Campbell's manufacturing centres run non-stop, staffed by extra employees.
Why empty shelves don't mean we're out of food: How Canada's supply chain works
April 02, 2020 - 3:00 AM

Shoppers are facing empty shelves at some stores due to unprecedented demand for food and other goods even as grocers assure Canadians coping with the COVID-19 outbreak that plenty of new items are on the way and manufacturers say they have the raw materials they need.
Bare store shelves, long lines at grocers amid coronavirus stockpiling
March 13, 2020 - 2:43 PM

When Harmony Samra went to her local No Frills Thursday afternoon in Toronto to pick up some food, she wasn't prepared for the chaos inside, where customers were filling multiple carts seemingly with anything they could grab off the shelves.
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Armstrong family won million-dollar home prize; moved where they can afford to live
An Armstrong family that won a million-dollar home two years ago says they had to move to the East Coast so they could afford to live. Ally Hanscom won the HGTV Canada’s Home to Win: for the Holidays competition back in December 2019.

Wine of the Week: Rigour & Whimsy 2019 Hyperdrive
Rigour & Whimsy is a micro winery in Okanagan Falls featuring hand crafted small lot wines. Costa and Jody Gavaris are the very cool husband and wife team behind the label that have brought a very colourful wave to our wine industry. Cr

Business News

Colonial Pipeline restarts operations days after major hack

Dependent on social media's marketing power, small businesses worry over iOS changes

Metro profit and sales up despite labour conflict, mild cold and flu season

Demand for puzzles, plushies fails to offset higher-margin declines at Spin Master

Gildan suspends dividend, cuts executive pay after losing nearly US$100M in Q1

Iowa governor: Tip from Ashton Kutcher led to testing deal

New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating virus

Plants 'operating 24/7' to meet consumer demand for food amid COVID-19

Why empty shelves don't mean we're out of food: How Canada's supply chain works

Bare store shelves, long lines at grocers amid coronavirus stockpiling

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