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On CTVNews.ca, chief financial commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid writes: Employees have long been focused on two incentives when deciding on a potential employer or sticking with their current employer — salary and benefits.
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Pattie Lovett-Reid: What means more to you, work-life balance or salary?

A group of warehouse workers in central Alberta could become the first Amazon employees in Canada to vote on whether or not to unionize.
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Teamsters to hold unionization vote at Amazon warehouse in Alberta

Manufacturing sales fell 1.5 per cent in July to $59.6 billion following a 3.6 per cent increase in June, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.
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Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 1.5 per cent in July

Intuit is buying email newsletter platform Mailchimp for about US$12 billion. The maker of tax return product TurboTax and other financial software announced the cash-and-stock deal Monday, saying that it hopes Mailchimp will help it ‘become the center of small business growth.’
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Intuit is buying Mailchimp for US billion to focus on small businesses

Stocks gave up an early gain and turned lower in afternoon Tuesday. The market had started higher after the latest data on inflation came in better than economists had expected.
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Major indexes slip on Wall Street, reversing early gains

As a hectic summer season comes to a close, many business operators in destinations like Banff and Whistler, B.C. are bracing for a busier winter season as international visitors return to Canada amid an ongoing staff shortage.
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Tourism destinations brace for busy winter without usual supply of foreign workers

In what appears to be a massively successful pump and dump scheme, cryptocurrency litecoin surged around 25 per cent early Monday after a falsified news release said Walmart would begin accepting the payment for online purchases.
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Posing as Walmart, scammers send crypto surging 25 per cent

Stocks rose broadly in morning trading on Wall Street Monday as investors try to shake off the market’s biggest weekly drop since June.
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Stocks rise broadly in morning trading following dismal week

A court in Amsterdam ruled Monday that Uber drivers fall under the Dutch taxi drivers’ collective labour agreement — meaning they are entitled to the same employment benefits as taxi drivers. Uber said it would appeal the ruling.
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Dutch court: Uber drivers covered by taxi labour agreement

Cineplex Inc. says a U.K. theatre giant acted in bad faith by delaying a takeover deal of the Canadian company and hoping it would default during the pandemic, a judge heard at the opening of its trial against Cineworld Group PLC.
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Court battle begins between Cineplex and U.K.’s Cineworld over scrapped takeover