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First-time 'RV curious' travellers driving up domestic demand for recreational vehicles
Some businesses that sell or rent RVs are seeing more demand from Canadians who can't take holidays outside the country during the pandemic. Newcomers to this type of vacation say they like the idea of being able to isolate in a self-sufficient vehicle instead of staying at a hotel or motel.
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Dianne Buckner
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What the COVID-19 employment crisis tells us about the future of work
The job losses associated with the COVID-19 crisis highlight the need for Canada to prepare for unexpected shocks to the labour market and develop a workforce with skills that will be prized across a range of industries, futurists and economists say.
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Brandie Weikle
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Supporters say space spending is justified despite the pandemic: Don Pittis
As we wait for SpaceX's launch on Saturday, supporters say public fascination with the first private-sector human space voyage is only one sign of the importance of “NewSpace," the emerging commercial spaceflight industry.
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After her toaster oven caught fire, Ontario woman was told by Whirlpool to take it up with a company in China
The toaster oven had the KitchenAid name on it, but when it burst into flames causing hundreds of dollars in damage to an Ontario women's home, the appliance maker told her she'd have to go after a third-party company she'd never heard of — in China — for compensation.
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Rosa Marchitelli
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Number of Americans on jobless benefits inches down for 1st time since pandemic began
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Length of average work week fell to record low in March as COVID-19 hit
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Analysis
Donald Trump's threat to regulate Twitter likely to hit roadblocks: legal experts
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Profit falls at TD and CIBC as loan loss provisions soar
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Housing market will feel effect of COVID-19 until 2022, CMHC says
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Boeing cuts 12,000 jobs as COVID-19 wallops demand for jets
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Royal Bank and BMO profit cut in half as loan loss provisions spike by 500%
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Pete Evans
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Trump tweets threat to shutter social media companies after Twitter warning
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What the oilpatch thinks about the financial aid offered by Ottawa
Kyle Bakx
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Bucking conventions: How Canada's conference industry is adjusting to deal with COVID-19
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Dianne Buckner
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National Bank profit drops 32% as loan loss provisions soar
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Torstar agrees to $52M sale to NordStar Capital
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Vancouver model for money laundering unprecedented in Canada, B.C. inquiry hears
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Bethany Lindsay
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CPP adds $17B to assets now worth more than $409B despite pandemic
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Pete Evans
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Scotiabank profit falls 40% as loan loss provisions more than double amid COVID-19
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Pete Evans
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Devastated by the pandemic, Canada's hotels make plans to reopen
Hannah Thibedeau
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Malls are reopening — but will shoppers come back?
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Ian Bickis
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Analysis
COVID-19 may be the catalyst — not the cause — of a painful but useful economic transformation: Don Pittis
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Don Pittis
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Latam Airlines files for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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EU regulator to probe Air Canada's proposed takeover of Transat
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Cirque du Soleil founder wants to buy back the company
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