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Consultants estimate that car and truck sales last month fell 17.4 per cent compared with January 2020, after COVID-19 lockdowns and inventory shortages hampered sales.
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January auto sales in Canada fall 17.4 per cent amid lockdowns, shortages

Robinhood, the stock trading app that helped fuel GameStop mania and ended up in a PR crisis, is running a Super Bowl ad.
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Robinhood is buying a Super Bowl ad after its GameStop fiasco

Matching Indigenous students with internships to help them take their first steps in the corporate world is part of non-profit organization Mitacs initiative launched to help Indigenous people ‘get a seat at the table.’
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Beyond ‘check-marking a box’: Getting Indigenous students into jobs paramount, advocate says

A World Vision report warns Canadians could be contributing to child labour with every grocery trip.
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Child labour behind every Canadian’s grocery haul, and it may get worse: World Vision

The number of Black executives at the very top of the biggest companies on the London Stock Exchange has fallen to zero.
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There are no Black execs at the top of Britain’s biggest companies

It is time to retire the word ‘retire,’ writes CTV News’ Chief Financial Commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid in her column on CTVNews.ca.
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Pattie Lovett-Reid: Why it’s time to retire the word ‘retire’

Hedge funds, small investors and stockbrokers are bracing for tougher U.S. markets regulation, with officials expected to meet this week to assess the fallout from a social media-driven market frenzy that has roiled stocks and silver prices.
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Five things to watch in Reddit stocks trading mania

Even after stepping aside as CEO, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appears likely to keep identifying new frontiers for the world’s dominant e-commerce company. His successor, meanwhile, gets to deal with escalating efforts to curtail its power.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos may step down without stepping away

Behind GameStop’s stock surge is the grim reality of its prospects: The video game retailer is floundering even as the industry around it is booming.
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GameStop’s stupefying stock rise doesn’t hide its reality

Stocks edged higher in afternoon trading Wednesday, as investors turn their focus to some strong earnings reports from Big Tech companies and hopes for getting more economic stimulus passed in Washington.
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Stocks move modestly higher, Google’s parent company jumps