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Reviews are beginning to come in from customers and restaurants a few days into the federal government’s GST/HST holiday.
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Restaurants still waiting to see if GST/HST holiday impacts business

The impending closure of all Party City locations in the United States will not extend into Canada.
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Party City closing in U.S., Canadian stores remain ‘open for business’

A new report from RBC Economics says home affordability in Canada is improving, though strains remain.
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Home affordability improves, but still challenging for many Canadians: RBC report

Canada’s anti-money laundering agency is looking to introduce a system that gives financial institutions and other businesses real-time feedback through scorecards, two sources said, as the regulator ramps up initiatives to tackle financial crime.
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Canada’s anti-money laundering agency plans scorecard to improve monitoring, sources say

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labour system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.
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Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

Consumers are conditioned to expect instant gratification when it comes to clothes shopping, but that’s not really how Woodburn does things.
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Slow fashion houses embrace made-to-order to reduce waste

Retail sales rose 0.6 per cent to $67.6 billion in October, led by increases in vehicle sales, said Statistics Canada on Friday.
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Canadian retail sales up 0.6% in October, buoyed by vehicle purchases

Workers at Starbucks stores plan to go on a five-day strike starting Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company.
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Starbucks workers plan strikes that could spread to 100s of U.S. stores by Christmas Eve

Workers at Starbucks stores began a five-day strike Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company.
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Starbucks workers begin strikes that could spread to hundreds of U.S. stores by Christmas Eve

The future of coal mining in Alberta will be governed by a new, modern approach, the province announced on Friday.
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Alberta announces plan to develop ‘modernized’ coal policy