Low-income consumers are ‘dropping out of the market, eating at home and finding other ways to economize’
Category: Consumer
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Ottawa drafts program to make Canadian households more ‘green’
Eligible Canadian households will receive up to $20,000 in funding to retrofit their homes to reduce their energy costs and emissions
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Tories are right to reform the CBC. But Canadians deserve details
Poilievre has been consistent, but not clear, about his pledge to defund the CBC. Here’s how the CBC ought to be reformed
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Plan to tax super-rich divides at G20 meeting
World’s richest one per cent earned $40tn in a decade, but their taxation is at ‘historically’ low rates: study
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B.C. clarifies law about service fees in retirement homes
In a win for B.C. seniors, the government has said retirement homes cannot arbitrarily increase residents’ mandatory service fees
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Bank of Canada lowers key lending rate to 4.5%
A Royal Bank of Canada analyst expects the overnight lending rate will be lowered to a still restrictive 4 per cent by the end of 2024
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US to phase out federal purchase of single-use plastics
Under the new goal, the US federal government will phase out single-use plastics from all federal operations by 2035
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Massive global IT outage: what we know
The outage was linked to a faulty update on Windows systems of an IT solution from the American cybersecurity group CrowdStrike
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Netflix wins subscribers as ad strategy pays off
Netflix said it ended the April-to-June period with a total of 277.7 million subscribers, as revenue surged to 9.6 billion
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First suicide pod in use ‘soon’ in Switzerland
The space-age looking Sarco capsule replaces the oxygen inside it with nitrogen, causing death by hypoxia, and costs only €20 to use