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The Body Shop Canada Ltd. is seeking creditor protection and closing a third of its stores because its parent company stripped the Canadian arm of cash and pushed it into debt, according to court documents. An affidavit published through the company’s court monitor from Jordan Searle, who heads the Canadian arm, describes how troubles befell … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Economy A cut in April ‘would be about the dumbest thing the central bank could do,’ Scotiabank’s Derek Holt says Get the latest from Barbara Shecter straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Mar 04, 2024 • 3 minute read Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem. The bank’s next policy decision … Read more
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines announced on Monday that they would not seek to overturn a court ruling that blocked their planned $3.8 billion merger. The decision is a big win for the Biden administration, which has sough to limit corporate consolidation. Backing out of the agreement will cost JetBlue. Under the terms of the … Read more
In Canada, your IP address has the right to remain silent. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for not being Open. Apple faces a class action not allowing competitive access to backup services and the World Server Throwing Competition in March 2024 is accused of being too violent towards servers. All this and more on the … Read more
In 2020, Virginia Martin lived two and a half miles from her office. Today, the distance between her work and home is 156. Ms. Martin, 37, used to live in Durham, N.C., and drove about 10 minutes to her job as a librarian at Duke. After the onset of remote work, Ms. Martin got her … Read more
Microsoft Copilot has been criticised for providing dubious responses when it comes to educating preschool children on topics related to sex, diversity, equity, and LGBTQ matters. Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant, has ignited conversations about whether it is appropriate to teach potentially sensitive topics to preschool children. In its responses, the AI tool highlighted the importance … Read more
For decades, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta barreled forward with few rules and limits. As their power, riches and reach grew, a groundswell of regulatory activity, lawmaking and legal cases sprang up against them in Europe, the United States, China, India, Canada, South Korea and Australia. Now that global tipping point for reining in … Read more
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) chief executive K. Krithivasan and Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran huddled with the company’s top 800 executives last week to sketch out a detailed plan for the company’s future, two executives privy to the Abu Dhabi gathering said. First, the headline goals. At the annual strategic retreat titled Blitz, CEO Krithivasan … Read more
In today’s match of Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024, Delhi Capitals (DC) posted 163/8 in their 20 overs against Gujarat Giants (GG) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Meg Lanning, captain of the Capitals top scored with a 55 while useful contributions came from Alice Capsey (27) and Annabel Sutherland (20). The Giants … Read more
The unclaimed funds within the life insurance sector are higher from policies sold by agents as against other channels like bancassurance or a digital platform, said analysts and officials from insurance companies. Unclaimed life insurance funds refer to the proceeds of insurance policies including death or survival benefits not claimed by the beneficiary … Read more
