“There’s just such a more pleasant experience to come in here and know that you’re purchasing things from your neighbours. Instead of vendors standing by their booth, they have rotating workings shifts throughout the market’s dates, reducing the amount of people inside the venue and following the indoor gathering limits of 50 per cent of the venue’s […]
Now, with three weeks worth of unsold potatoes building up in the company’s warehouses, Griffin has to start thinking about what’s next. “I think it’s great. Nancy Russell has been a reporter with CBC since 1987, in Whitehorse, Winnipeg, Toronto and Charlottetown. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce […]
It’s an issue she stumbled upon while interviewing more than 200 Black men for a study on HIV. “Across the border, I’m more readily accepted, where people look at your experience and your background more as a value and they treat you accordingly. When they graduate from the University of Windsor, for example, they end […]
All things being equal, that means the bank’s only job is to try to nudge inflation up or down as needed. There has been a suggestion in recent years that central banks should consider moving away from inflation targeting, and try to achieve other goals with their monetary policy. By submitting a comment, you accept […]
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I figured, ‘What could I do instead of doing a regular variety store?’ So I used my background and that’s how Festival Food Mart came about. It was $15,000 and I had to match it with $15,000 for a small business loan, back in 1992. When you’re limited in regards to inventory, what we did is we faced everything on the shelf to […]
A two-storey, 10,000-square foot restaurant is also being built on the south side of the building, overlooking the Burrard Inlet. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. …Read the full story
The city is asking everyone to follow health precautions, including physical distancing and mask wearing. The skating trail at Storybook Gardens at 1958 Storybook Lane in Springbank Park offers a unique 250 m winding ice surface through part of the play village. …Read the full story
“We want to help people start up the way we started,” he said. Blk Owned Hamont is another Hamilton-based group that is built around supporting other local businesses. Blk Owned Hamont hosts their final holiday market for the season, in collaboration with Fruit Salad Hamilton Edition, on Saturday evening at the Side Door Bar on […]
“Mad scramble, I think that’s the word,” said Laura Folkins of L&R Evergreens Ltd. A lot can happen in the six to 10 years or so that it takes to grow a three-metre-tall tree. Folkins said finding seasonal workers to prune and maintain the trees has always been difficult. As tree farmers retired or switched to more profitable crops, Wright […]
Inaccurate forecasts mean there’s a mismatch between what customers want to buy and the products for sale, which often translates into unhappy customers. She also found there is no appeals process for products that are rejected and only two of the six category managers making decisions on what gets listed have cannabis experience. By submitting […]
But in a very different context, that is what the country’s top central banker has said he would like to see in economic and jobs growth, too. Currently, that is exactly what Canadian economists are forecasting for Friday’s jobs numbers. They estimate that the economy will crank out between 30,000 and 40,000 jobs, ticking the unemployment rate down […]
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From Cowansville to Lac-Mégantic, you’ll find nearly 50 Christmas markets in Quebec’s Eastern Townships from mid-November to the week before Christmas. The region is well known for outdoor activities such as skiing and hiking, but Michaud-Verrault says the culture and arts scene tend to get overlooked. Local farms sell the last of their fruit and […]
“You know there is a lot of turbulence in this market. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. …Read the full story
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“He was very kind. The two men appear to the latest casualties of the overdose crisis gripping Canada’s largest city. By May of this year, there were 215 opioid-related deaths in the city, according to preliminary data from Toronto Public Health. According to a survey conducted in April, there were 7,347 people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, 742 of whom […]
