• Loblaw to include structural integrity audits of supplier companies

  May 3, 2013 - 10 h 29

  Loblaw says it will continue manufacturing Joe Fresh clothing in Bangladesh and also take new steps to ensure the structural integrity of the factories in the wake of the collapse of a building that housed one of its suppliers.

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• Canadians must fight U.S. protectionism in the energy sector, Prentice says

  May 1, 2013 - 9 h 53

  'Profound opportunities' for region if access stays unencumbered

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• BMO to open small bank branches with more customers banking online

  April 30, 2013 - 10 h 51

  The Bank of Montreal is opening what it calls a 'studio' branch next week in a Montreal condo building and expects to open 10 to 15 of these micro branches at a time across Canada and in the U.S. Midwest.

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• Ottawa reverses course on foreign worker program

  April 30, 2013 - 9 h 39

  After weeks of public outcry over the scarcity of Canadian jobs, the Conservative government delivered a pink slip Monday to a series of controversial changes it made last year to the temporary foreign workers program.

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• Bangladesh factory collapse ignites retail industry controversy

  April 26, 2013 - 10 h 30

  Canadian clothing line Joe Fresh was among the customers of the garment factories operating in the building.

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• Canadians steadily paying off debt quicker, borrowing less: Equifax study

  April 24, 2013 - 9 h 38

  Past studies showed consumers taking out more loans and not paying them back as quickly during a volatile economy

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• Retail sales up 0.8 per cent to $39.5B in February

  April 23, 2013 - 10 h 49

  Statistics Canada says higher sales were reported in seven of 11 subsectors, representing 82 per cent of total retail trade.

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• Some fish species including cod may never bounce back, says study

  April 19, 2013 - 10 h 23

  The newly released study in the journal Science 'suggests that recovery is quite unlikely now for cod because of our failure to act when we could have'.

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• LinkedIn hopes to reel in more mobile traffic

  April 18, 2013 - 15 h 42

  Changes unveiled today mark LinkedIn Corp.'s first major overhaul of its mobile app in 20 months.

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• Number of EI recipients unchanged in February

  April 18, 2013 - 10 h 55

  Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving regular employment insurance benefits was virtually unchanged at 528,900 in February following three months of declining numbers.

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• March 22, 2013 Small business gives 2013 federal budget a 'B'
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• March 15, 2013 Federal budget to target mismatch between skilled workers, labour shortages
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