Simons opens its 1st Toronto store at Yorkdale mall

The Simons logo is seen on the exterior of Toronto's Yorkdale mall.

La Maison Simons has opened its first store in Toronto. Simons is 185 years old but has taken such a methodical expansion outside its home province of Quebec that it only counted 17 stores until now.

With strike by flight attendants looming, Air Canada begins cancellations

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Air Canada started suspending flights on Thursday morning as a potential strike by flight attendants looms.

Canada’s national parks are free for everyone this summer. Should they be?

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Free admission to Canada’s national parks this summer has helped draw visitors to the country’s most popular parks, fuelling traffic jams and raising environmental concerns.

Is the stock market in an AI bubble?

Traders have driven markets to all time highs

The stock market is running hot, driven by AI exuberance. Meta, Amazon, Google, Nvidia are driving the record gains on the promise AI will bring big changes to businesses. But right now, many of the players are investing more in AI than they are making. So will we see a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst or will the hype pay off?

BoC officials considered whether interest rate already low enough to weather tariffs

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Newly released documents show some members of the Bank of Canada were wondering last month whether the central bank’s benchmark interest rate is already low enough to support the Canadian economy through U.S. tariffs.

People reading AI summaries on Google search instead of news stories, media experts warn

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Some news publishers say the AI-generated summaries that now top many Google search results are resulting in less people actually reading the news, while experts are flagging concerns about the summaries’ accuracy.

Canada Post, union holding 2 days of talks after meeting with mediators

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The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it will hold two days of talks with Canada Post.

B.C. billionaire wanting Hudson’s Bay leases says landlord concerns are ‘misguided’

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Landlords, including Cadillac Fairview, Oxford Properties, Ivanhoe Cambridge, have said their leases don’t allow for such uses and even if they did, Liu’s timelines and budgets are too “unrealistic” given the amount of work and repairs their properties need.

Air Canada flight attendants intend to strike this weekend, union says

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The union representing Air Canada’s flight attendants has signalled that its members intend to go on strike this weekend, paving the way for workers to walk off the job as early as Saturday morning.

Flight attendants’ union says it declined arbitration proposal by Air Canada

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The union representing Air Canada’s flight attendants says it has declined a proposal by the airline to resolve negotiations through binding arbitration.