Year in Review 2013: Biggest blunders in Canadian business in 2013
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Biggest business blunders in Canada in 2013
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Food illness
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Though some Calgary renters haven't been able to return home after the floods they are still required to pay rent.
Submitted by Phillip Andrews - 4/8
A customer enters the closing down Sears store is shown in downtown Vancouver
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A relative of a garment worker, who is still missing after the Rana Plaza building collapse, cries during a protest in front of the site in Savar
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer looks at a receptionist at the headquarters of SNC Lavalin in Montreal
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RBC CEO on foreign workers uproar
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File of pedestrians walking past a Lululemon Athletica store in New York
REUTERS
This year the Seinfeld rules applied: No learning, no hugs. Massive mistakes and misjudgments, repeated for good measure, earned companies their place on this ignominious list this year. And while the miscues were no fun for those involved, they offer up cautionary tales for the rest of us. This way madness lies, t'is best to go the other way. | By Noel Hulsman