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Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.’s chief executive says the company is taking a “persistent” but “friendly” approach with the Japanese owner of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain it’s trying to acquire.
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Couche-Tard confident in persistent but friendly approach to bid for 7-Eleven owner

The Bank of Canada on Tuesday said inflation, which has been the center of attention and unhappiness for years amid rising prices, should fade into the background again as the annual rate settled back at 2 per cent.
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Bank of Canada says inflation will fade into background as it settles at 2 per cent

Disney has agreed to pay US$43 million to settle a lawsuit that it paid female employees less than their male counterparts in similar roles for nearly a decade.
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Disney agrees to pay US million to settle lawsuit

Documents supporting Via Rail’s ongoing attempt to secure better access to tracks owned by Canadian National Railway Co. shed new light on an increasingly strained relationship between the carriers.
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Why Via Rail wants an overhaul of the conditions for using CN’s rail tracks

Consumer debt rose to a record $2.5 trillion in the third quarter as many Canadians continue to struggle with high living costs and rising unemployment, new surveys from two credit bureaus say.
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Cost of living, unemployment factors in record-breaking Canadian consumer debt

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged big tariffs on the United States’ three largest trading partners – Canada, Mexico and China – detailing how he will implement campaign promises that could trigger trade wars.
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Trump vows new Canada, Mexico, China tariffs that threaten global trade

Investor Warren Buffett renewed his Thanksgiving tradition of giving by announcing plans Monday to hand more than US$1.1 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to four of his family’s foundations, and he offered new details about who will be handing out the rest of his fortune after his death.
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Warren Buffett gives away another US.1B and plans for distributing his US7B fortune after his death

A bankruptcy judge is set to hear arguments Monday in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ effort to stop the satirical news outlet The Onion from buying Infowars and turning it into a parody.
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Judge in Alex Jones’ bankruptcy case to hear arguments on The Onion’s bid for Infowars

Macy’s announced Monday that a single employee was responsible for so many accounting irregularities that the company was forced to delay its quarterly earnings report, which the retailer had planned to release Tuesday.
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Macy’s found a single employee hid up to US4M worth of expenses

Court documents are offering a window into the Competition Bureau’s investigation into Leon’s Furniture Ltd. and its subsidiary The Brick Warehouse LP.
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Court docs show what sparked Competition Bureau probe into Leon’s, The Brick