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All WestJet employees will have to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 30, the company announced Wednesday.
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WestJet employees must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 30 or face suspension, termination

Bill Gates’s private investment company has signed a deal to increase its stake in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts so that it will hold a controlling interest.
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Bill Gates buys controlling interest in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

After an 18-month suspension of commercial flights at Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport due to COVID-19, planes are once again taking to the sky.
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Commercial service resumes at Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport following 18-month suspension

There will be something missing at two Whole Foods stores opening next year: the rows of cashiers.
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Amazon to open 2 cashier-less Whole Foods stores next year

Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said Credit Suisse told him it was closing his foundation’s bank account in Switzerland earlier this year citing his ‘criminal record’ in China, despite the activist never being convicted of a crime.
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Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing his foundation’s bank account

The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate target on hold Wednesday as it warned the fourth wave of the pandemic and supply bottlenecks could weigh on the economic recovery.
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Bank of Canada keeps key interest rate target on hold, citing pandemic-related risks

Stocks fell in afternoon trading Wednesday as investors wait for more guidance from the Federal Reserve and monitor the direction of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Stocks slip as investors monitor the U.S. Fed, COVID-19 impact

Billionaire Marc Lore has outlined his vision for a 5-million-person ‘new city in America’ and appointed a world-famous architect to design it. Now, he just needs somewhere to build it — and US$400 billion in funding.
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Plans for US0-billion new city in the American desert unveiled

El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender Tuesday, but the rollout stumbled in its first hours and President Nayib Bukele informed that the digital wallet used for transactions was not functioning.
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Early stumble as El Salvador starts Bitcoin as currency

China’s import and export growth accelerated in August despite disruptions due to the spread of the coronavirus’s delta variant.
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China’s trade accelerates in August despite coronavirus