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No slacking allowed: Companies keep careful eye on work-from-home productivity during COVID-19
Heads up, Canadians working from home. If you thought your new arrangement was a licence to slack off, think again. The boom in people doing their jobs off site during the COVID-19 lockdown has led to rising interest in services that help employers remotely monitor their workers' productivity.
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Dianne Buckner
Business ||
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40 food inspectors in Canada, including 21 in Alberta, have COVID-19, union says
Forty meat plant inspectors in Canada — 21 of them in Alberta — have contracted COVID-19, according to their union, prompting a senator to call for workers and the integrity of the food safety system to be protected.
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Rachel Ward
Canada -Calgary ||
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Trudeau says wealth fund blacklisting of Alberta companies a wake-up call on climate change action
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says news that one of the world's largest investment funds will exclude four Canadian oilsands producers from consideration for investing is part of a continuing shift in global attitudes for which oil companies will have to adjust.
Canada -Calgary ||
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StatsCan cracks down on early access to data after last week's jobs number leak
Business |
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Twitter to let some employees work from home permanently
Business |
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Pandemic has rattled — not broken — Canada's meat supply chain, but store prices could still climb
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Tony Seskus
Business |
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No slacking allowed: Companies keep careful eye on work-from-home productivity during COVID-19
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Dianne Buckner
Business ||
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Uber mulls buying GrubHub in major consolidation of U.S. food delivery business
Business |
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A major airline will 'most likely' go bust this year because of COVID-19, Boeing CEO says
Business |
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Elon Musk restarts Tesla factory in California in violation of lockdown order
World |
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More flour, fewer flowers: Here's what Canadians have been buying during the pandemic
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Pete Evans
Business ||
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Saudi Arabia orders state oil company Aramco to cut another 1 million barrels in June
Business |
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Successful reopening depends on rent relief being extended, say small businesses and landlords
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James Dunne
Business ||
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Construction of expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to begin soon in B.C.
Kyle Bakx
Business ||
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Toyota Canada workers return to work following shutdown
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Paula Duhatschek
Canada -Kitchener-Waterloo ||
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Some cruise lines plan to resume sailing as early as this summer, but will passengers get on board?
Sophia Harris
Business ||
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After 101 years in business, Army & Navy department stores to permanently close
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Cory Correia
Canada -British Columbia ||
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Analysis
The wages of fear: The pandemic and the future of low-paid 'essential' work
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Aaron Wherry
Politics ||
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A boost for essential workers; Why some nursing homes say no to 'granny cams': CBC's Marketplace cheat sheet
Business |
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Quebec Cargill meat-processing plant to shut down after COVID-19 outbreak
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Colin Harris
Canada -Montreal ||
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Battle over claims heats up between small businesses and insurance providers
Radio -Cost of Living |
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Analysis
Deficit reduction will have to wait for the economic recovery, federal officials say
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David Cochrane
Politics ||
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GO PUBLIC
Telco customer sees internet bill more than triple during pandemic — and she's not alone
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Erica Johnson
Business ||
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