Direct Loan Canada Blog

Lululemon Athletica Inc. is joining the booming personalized at-home exercise trend with the launch of Mirror, a large electronic device for streaming workout classes.
Source: ctv business
Lululemon joins new generation of home gym equipment retailers with launch of Mirror

Legal experts say Canada is facing a potential wave of terminations tied to mandatory workplace vaccine policies as a growing number of employers require workers to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 or risk losing their jobs.
Source: ctv business
Canada faces wave of terminations as workplace vaccine mandates take effect: lawyer

John Sopko, the U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said on Wednesday his office would look into allegations that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani took millions of dollars with him when he left the country.
Source: ctv business
U.S. watchdog will look into allegations Afghan’s Ghani took millions from country

Big retailers have hired their own ships to bypass log-jammed ports and secure scarce ship space at a time when COVID-19, as well as U.S.-China trade ructions, equipment shortages and extreme weather, have exposed the fragility of the globe-spanning supply lines we use for everything from food and fashion to drinks and diapers.
Source: ctv business
‘Containergeddon’: Supply crisis drives Walmart and rivals to hire their own ships

Stocks rose broadly at midday on Wall Street as investors welcomed the end of a standoff in Congress over extending the federal debt ceiling.
Source: ctv business
Stocks move broadly higher as receding debt fears spur rally

Transportation industry associations say the federal government’s development of a national vaccine passport will be vital for airlines to carry out a vaccine mandate for air travellers.
Source: ctv business
Air travel associations call for federal vaccine passport for new vaccine mandate

The Conference Board of Canada cut its forecast for economic growth this year after the contraction seen in the second quarter.
Source: ctv business
Conference Board cuts growth forecast for 2021 after weak second quarter

A trove of leaked documents confirmed that for years, Lebanon’s politicians and bankers have stowed wealth in offshore tax havens and used it to buy expensive properties — a galling revelation for masses of newly impoverished Lebanese, caught in one of the world’s worst economic meltdowns in decades.
Source: ctv business
As Lebanese got poorer, politicians stowed wealth abroad

Workers at the U.S. Kellogg Company — maker of breakfast staples such as Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies — are on strike, after yearlong negotiations between union and management broke down.
Source: ctv business
Kellogg’s strike: 1,400 U.S. cereal factory workers hit picket lines

The United States will hit the debt ceiling Oct. 18 unless Congress acts in time to suspend it and some politicians think they’ve found a silver bullet for the impasse over the debt limit: a mint a $1 trillion coin.
Source: ctv business
Token of all tokens: Could a T coin fix the U.S. debt limit?