Category: Business News

Tom Krisher And Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press – | Stories: 414415

Alaska’s rugged and frigid interior, where it can get as cold as -46 C, is not the place

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WINNIPEG, MAN. — Ingredient supplier Merit Functional Foods has been placed in receivership by a Canadian court. In a March 1 post on LinkedIn, Ryan Bracken, co-chief executive officer, wrote, “this means the end of Merit as it stands today.”

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Business insolvencies in January were 55.4 per cent higher than last year, according to new data by the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy.

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The federal insolvency regulator on March 1 released its January 2023 statistics

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Nordstrom Inc. says it is winding down its Canadian operations and closing all 13 of its stores in the country.

The company filed for protection from its creditors this week under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, a Canadian law that

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It’s been almost exactly one year since the Bank of Canada began aggressively raising its key overnight lending rate. Since then, Canadian households have struggled with ever-increasing debt payments. Borrowing costs are up a stunning 425 basis points in the

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Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificial intelligence (AI) search engine from going off the rails.

The company said Wednesday it is bringing the

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CIBC profits down

The Canadian Press – | Story: 413062

CIBC reported its first-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago as it took a $1.17-billion charge to settle a

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Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in what the company says is a test run of a potential response to the Liberal government’s online news bill.

Also known as Bill C-18, the Online News Act would

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It may sound like a circular argument, but the only way to stop inflation is to stop companies from raising prices. And the only way to stop that is to get inflation under control. And that could mean an end

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Tens of millions of Americans in 32 states will see the pandemic boost to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits expire at the end of February.

That means less money to spend on food each month, even as inflation

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