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REAL ESTATE INSIGHTS: May 2025 market snapshot: Winnipeg’s steady climb amid national slowdowns
Winnipeg Sun
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June 7, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Real Estate As of May 2025, Winnipeg data points to a confident, resilient market, with particular strength in the condominium sector. Photo by Tracy Mainland Kramble /Winnipeg Sun Article content While several major...
Bank of Canada head Tiff Macklem says mandate should evolve in a 'shock-prone' world
Western Investor
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June 7, 2025
OTTAWA — Tiff Macklem is wearing an Edmonton Oilers pin as he reflects on coming very close to beating big odds. OTTAWA — Tiff Macklem is wearing an Edmonton Oilers pin as he reflects on coming very close to beating big odds. It's a significant...
CURRIER: Canada Post and Hudson’s Bay: Icons past their prime
Winnipeg Sun
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June 7, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Columnists The Hudson’s Bay Co. has joined Sears, Zellers and Eaton’s in that great department store in the sky. Winnipeg Sun Article content The oldest retail outlet on the globe is gone. The Hudson’s Bay Co. has...
Market Talk - Friday, June 6
myMotherLode - California
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Friday, June 6, 2025 4:37 PM EDT Image Source: Pixabay ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 187.12 points or 0.50% to 37,741.61 • Shanghai increased 1.26 points or 0.04% to 3,385.36 • Hang Seng decreased...
Canada’s retrofit momentum hinges on more than just heat pumps
Canada's National Observer
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June 5, 2025
The new federal mandate letter call for “bringing down costs for Canadians” and “creating new careers in the skilled trades.” Residential retrofits can do both, giving renewed urgency to programs like the Canada Greener Homes Initiative. A special...
Canada and the US share the same economic goals: Ambassador Pete Hoekstra
Canada's National Observer
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June 6, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's goal of enhancing American power aligns with Prime Minister Mark Carney's aim of making Canada's economy the fastest-growing in the G7, Trump's envoy to Canada said Friday. "It's going to continue to be a very strong...
Unpacking the Bank of Canada's interest rate hold: FP video
Daily Herald Tribune
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Article content The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate this week and FP Video talks to economists about the decision and what the central bank might do next . Plus, as Donald Trump again ratchets up tariff threats against Canada, we...
TOP 100 Business Cards of history's most important people - #1-10
New Atlas
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June 7, 2025
There has always been a marketplace for the personal cards of important people, but the humble ceremonial personal card (aka business card, visiting card, calling card, Carte de Visite) has never received much attention at auction, and has often...
How a multibillion dollar defence bank could help Canada increase its military spending
Norfolk & Tillsonburg News
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Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canadian Politics World How Canada Wins: 'We have to use our capital markets of allied nations for overwhelming force against our foes,' says defence bank president A Canadian Armed Forces member sends a radio message...
No title, but NiJaree Canady brought the crowd, the spotlight and the cash to a sport that's ready to erupt
CBS Sports - Florida
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June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY -- After pitching only one inning in the biggest game in Texas Tech softball history, pitcher NiJaree Canady watched the remainder of the game from the dugout. Canady, who started every game of the Women's College World Series for...
From retaliation to negotiation: How Canada’s U.S. trade strategy is shifting under Carney
The Globe and Mail
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June 7, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Prime Minister Mark Carney's strategy for dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump is markedly different than that of his predecessor.Blair Gable/Reuters In the opening rounds of the trade war with the United States,...
Southern hockey surge: NHL teams thrive in non-traditional markets, from Texas to Florida
The Daily Sentinel - Colorado
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Popeye Jones was an NBA rookie with the Mavericks the same season that Dallas debuted its new NHL team, and he decided to go to a Stars game after meeting future Hall of Fame player Mike Modano.“I couldn’t figure out hockey. They were jumping over...
Northern Ireland weekly market report - 2 June 2025
Farming Life
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June 7, 2025
Northern Ireland weekly market report - 2 June 2025 UK feed wheat futures (Nov-25) Northern Ireland weekly market report - 2 June 2025Nov-25 UK feed wheat futures fell last week (Friday–Friday), falling back below the 20-day moving average. Prices...
Canada soccer coach claims Vancouver Whitecaps players were 'poisoned' during cup final trip to Mexico
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 6, 2025
Canada coach Jesse Marsch expressed outrage Friday, saying Vancouver Whitecaps players had been "poisoned" during their visit to Mexico for the CONCACAF Champions Cup final. The Whitecaps issued a statement Thursday saying about half of the 75...
Company that worked on ArriveCan app barred from government contracts for 7 years
New West Record
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June 6, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa says it has banned the largest contractor that worked on the ArriveCan app from entering into contracts or real property agreements with the government for seven years. OTTAWA — Ottawa says it has banned the largest contractor that...
Rediscovering Canada via a Stanley Cup Run
St. Thomas Times Journal
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Life The Stanley Cup reminds us how we as a community can come together in faith, honour each other's differences and create the best country we can. Photo by Bruce Bennett /Getty Images They say sport is a microcosm of...
U.S. ambassador says Canadians facing device searches, detainment ‘not a pattern’
Lethbridge Herald
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June 7, 2025
By Canadian Press on June 7, 2025. OTTAWA — The American ambassador to Canada is pushing back on Ottawa’s travel advice, saying his country doesn’t search phones at the border and arguing some Americans travelling here are having a tough time. “We...
Canada losing farmland to development as rental costs squeeze farmers
West Central Online
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June 6, 2025
Canada’s dwindling farmland base and rising rental costs threaten the country’s agricultural sustainability, researchers warn Canada’s agricultural sector faces mounting pressure as the country continues to lose farmland to urban development,...
Canada’s PM faces backlash for inviting India’s Narendra Modi for G7 summit
The Guardian
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June 6, 2025
Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney has defended his decision to invite India’s prime minister Narendra Modi to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, despite Canada’s federal police’s conclusion that the murder of a prominent Sikh activist in British...
Canada’s new anti-greenwashing rules to empower climate lawsuits
WSAU - Wisconsin
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June 6, 2025
By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY (Reuters) -Canada’s newly finalized anti-greenwashing rules will make it easier for climate advocacy groups to bring lawsuits against oil and gas companies, an industry group and an activist organization said. WHY IT’S...