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After a fulfilling 40-year career, Air Canada’s first female pilot recalls the struggles she faced in the early years and the efforts still needed to encourage more young women to enter aviation — especially the cockpit, which remains extremely male-dominated.
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Air Canada’s first female pilot recalls sector’s sexist hurdles on route to success

Just three years ago, DNA testing company 23andMe was the golden child of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Today, the firm is at risk of being delisted from the Nasdaq.
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23andMe is low on cash and its stock is worth pennies. The CEO wants another chance

A California judge on Friday ordered Tesla Inc. to pay US$1.5 million as part of a settlement of a civil case alleging the company mishandled hazardous waste at its car service centers, energy centers and a factory, multiple county district attorneys announced.
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Tesla ordered to pay US.5 million over alleged hazardous waste violations in California

The Manitoba government and the head of Manitoba Hydro, the province’s Crown energy corporation, are at odds over ways to meet growing electricity demand, and the minister responsible is not saying whether he has full confidence in the corporation’s president and chief executive officer, Jay Grewal.
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Manitoba cabinet minister at odds with Crown corporation CEO over development

With Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset hitting store shelves Friday, you’re probably going to start to see more people wearing the futuristic googles that are supposed to usher in the age of ‘spatial computing.’
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Why Apple is pushing the term ‘spatial computing’ along with its new Vision Pro headset

Ottawa launched a new pay transparency website Friday to better illustrate how women, visible minorities, people with disabilities and Indigenous Peoples are represented and paid at federally regulated private sector employers.
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Feds unveil web tool to track representation, pay disparity for women, minorities

The federal government is lashing out at the U.S. Commerce Department over plans to raise duties on Canadian softwood lumber.
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Increase in U.S. softwood lumber duties ‘entirely unwarranted,’ trade minister says

When Mark Zuckerberg turned at a Senate hearing to address the parents of children exploited, bullied or driven to self harm via social media, it felt like a time-worn convention had sprung back to life.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s long apology tour: A brief history

A year after Florida enacted a new law to making it more difficult for employers to hire immigrants in the country illegally, the House passed a bill Thursday to let 16- and 17-year-olds work longer and later hours.
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Florida House votes to loosen child labour laws a year after tougher immigrant employment law enacted

Two gunmen took seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkiye on Thursday, according to media reports, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
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U.S. company says hostage-taking by gunmen at its factory in Turkiye in Gaza protest has been resolved