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Campbell Soup Co. announced its intention to change its name at an annual meeting of investors on Tuesday.
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Campbell’s wants to say goodbye to the ‘soup’ in its name, it isn’t the first to make the change

Shares of Republican candidate Donald Trump’s company that owns the Truth Social slumped 14 per cent in busy trading on Wednesday as betting odds of a win for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris grew after a combative U.S. presidential debate.
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Trump Media slumps as bets on Harris victory rise after presidential debate

A union representing federal employees is asking its members to bring their own lunch to work, in an apparent retaliation against downtown Ottawa businesses as new return-to-office protocols begin.
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‘Buy nothing’: PSAC wants federal workers to boycott downtown Ottawa businesses

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered TD Bank Group to pay US$28 million for repeatedly sharing inaccurate, negative information about its customers in the latest reprimand of the bank by regulators.
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U.S. regulator fines TD Bank USM for faulty consumer reports

The battle over ‘founder mode’ versus ‘manager mode’ is one of those manufactured dramas that only a small segment of the world cares about — like going to Davos or Cannes or the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
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‘Founder mode’ is the latest Silicon Valley buzzword telling toxic bosses they’re great

China’s policymakers this week assessed an official plan to delay the country’s retirement age, among the world’s lowest, marking a key step to address its shrinking working population.
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Chinese policymakers discuss proposal to delay retirement age

When two Ontario women were scammed out of more than $80,000 in separate bank investigator scams, they thought they would be reimbursed by their banks and were shocked when they weren’t.
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Calls for more protections for Canadian bank clients amid rise in scams

As PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to enforce its back-to-office policy by tracking employees in the U.K., one employment lawyer explains whether the practice is legal in Canada.
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PwC plans to track employees’ location while at work. Is this practice legal in Canada?

Starbucks has been on the decline, with shrinking sales as it moved from a traditional sit-down coffee shop into one where people place orders on their phones and grab a drink from the counter. Its new CEO has a plan to fix it all. And it starts with comfortable chairs.
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Starbucks’ new CEO wants to make Starbucks a coffee shop again

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ordered 7-Eleven Canada to pay a woman more than $900,000 in damages after she tripped on a pothole and broke her ankle in the parking lot of a convenience store.
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7-Eleven ordered to pay B.C. woman 7K for pothole injury