Angela Larson, a vintage clothing store owner in Edmonton, says Purolator and UPS pausing shipments from some courier companies amid a backlog of packages resulting from the Canada Post strike is leaving small businesses without options and losing revenue.
WIth one foot out the White House door, the Biden administration issued 2 documents Musk is now using in his battle to break up OpenAI and Microsoft.
Last May, about 230 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Laval, Que., successfully unionized — a historic first in Canada at the retail giant.The CSN, the union that represents the workers in Laval, said workers were dissatisfied with what they described as a hectic work pace, low wages and inadequate health and safety measures.Amazon has only one other unionized workforce in North America, in Staten Island, N.Y. It was certified in 2022 but still doesn't have a contract.In Quebec, the province's s
Not unless you find a few million dollars in the couch cushions.
In footage from the set of “It Ends With Us,” Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively engage in a polite, even friendly, discussion about how to show their characters falling in love. Should they kiss? Or is it more romantic for them to talk? He smiles. She laughs. Yet, they were growing to despise each other. …
A Starbucks employee said the chain held training on how to handle customers asking to use the restroom or sit in the store without purchasing anything.
Companies have continued to cut jobs in 2025 after a wave of layoffs last year. Meta, Microsoft, BlackRock, and Ally are among those shedding staff.
Coca-Cola lovers for more than a decade were forced to wash down their $1.50 hot dogs at Costco’s food courts with Pepsi. But Costco plans to bring back Coca-Coca at its food court soda fountains this summer and ditch its archrival.
Russian Railways' cargo volumes slumped to a 15-year low in 2024, with labour and locomotive shortages exacerbating capacity woes as Moscow redirects trade flows to Asia from Europe while fighting on in Ukraine, data showed and six sources said. Industrial output and railway cargo volumes usually go hand in hand. President Vladimir Putin has grown increasingly concerned about distortions in Russia's wartime economy, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Justin Baldoni's lawyers asked the judge to deny Blake Lively's "outrageous" request for a gag order
The former reality TV stars and Pacific Palisades residents are among 20+ plaintiffs seeking compensation for property damage The post Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt Sue City of LA Over Wildfire Damage, Saying Its ‘System Necessarily Failed’ appeared first on TheWrap.
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else. It's raising questions over whether diverting power to higher-paying customers will leave enough for others and whether it's fair to excuse big power users from paying for the grid. Front and center is the data center that Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, is building next to the Susquehanna nuclear plant in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Costco was one of the companies at the forefront of raising its minimum wage, raising their minimum hourly wage for many positions is $19.50 in July 2024. Not only do Costco employee benefits include...
After Deborah Eakins read the recent CBC News investigation about Loblaw, Sobeys and Walmart grocery stores overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat, she weighed her ground beef.To her surprise, the meat, bought at Sobeys-owned Pete's Frootique in the Halifax area, appeared to have been weighed with the hard plastic packaging.CBC News purchased three packages of ground beef from the same store and got the same results. The calculated overcharge was $1.23 — six per cent on the $21.29
Retirement is supposed to be a time of contentment and freedom. You've worked so hard to reach the milestone achievement of bidding adieu to a career-focused existence. Unfortunately, retirement...
American Airlines got its corporate travel strategy badly wrong after the pandemic—and it’s still paying the price. As business travel recovered, the carrier tried to push customers toward booking on its website and app in a bid to reduce travel agency commissions and the millions of dollar spent offering companies perks to discount for being their carrier of choice The airline began removing some fares from its corporate booking channels to encourage customers to book directly with American, while also limiting its loyalty program to those booking directly. The strategy faced a backlash and corporate customers started to abandon American benefiting rivals United Airlines and Delta Air Lines In May, American cut its revenue forecast and in July flagged $1.5 billion in lost revenue in 2024 due to the move.
FRESNO, Texas (AP) — The only moment TiAnna Yeldell has to herself is when she’s sleeping, and that doesn’t happen much.
As global markets experience a rebound, driven by cooling inflation and robust bank earnings in the U.S., investors are increasingly looking for stable income sources amid economic optimism. In this environment, dividend stocks stand out as attractive options for those seeking consistent returns, offering a blend of income generation and potential capital appreciation.
Discount store chain Target said Friday that it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attack from conservative activists and, as of this week, the White House. The Minneapolis-based retailer said the changes to its “Belonging at the Bullseye” strategy would include ending a program it established to help Black employees build meaningful careers, improve the experience of Black shoppers and to promote Black-owned businesses following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. Target, which operates nearly 2,000 stores nationwide and employs more than 400,000 people, said it already had planned to end the racial program this year.
U.S. companies that scale back workplace diversity efforts to avoid scrutiny from the Trump administration may be exposing themselves to more discrimination lawsuits by workers, experts said. President Donald Trump this week issued a sweeping executive order directing federal agencies to terminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs and encouraging private companies to do the same. Trump ordered all agencies to identify potential targets for civil investigations, who could then be subjected to legal action.
