Economy

Cool weather, financial pressures, take toll on big box retailer

Increases in auto and clothing sales offset by lower gasoline prices

The Canadian Association of Mortgage Professionals is warning that new-home construction will drop dramatically within the next two years.

Bangladesh’s $20-billion apparel industry has been the only force of economic dynamism in a destitute country. But people’s lives have been put at risk in the 5,000 or so garment factories that have sprung up as the industry tripled in size from 2000 to 2010.