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‘Pathetic and disgraceful’: U.S. lawmakers blast Coca-Cola, Visa and others over Beijing Olympics

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Congressional panel blasted U.S.-based corporate sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, including Coca-Cola,…

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Cruise ships 101: Industry plagued by pandemic outbreaks plots comeback

HALIFAX — It was an outbreak that captivated the world. In early 2020 the gleaming Diamond Princess cruise ship became…

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Production of De Havilland turboprops key to negotiations as strike deadline nears

The union representing Bombardier and De Havilland aerospace workers in Toronto are threatening a strike this week unless negotiations can…

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Frito-Lay Kansas worker strike ends after 20 days

After a nearly three-week strike, hundreds of Frito-Lay employees in Topeka, Kansas have ratified a revised contract Saturday addressing what…

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Why hundreds of U.S. Frito-Lay workers have been striking

Workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, say it used to be one of the best jobs in town…

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Air Canada anticipating recovery in demand as travel restrictions are eased

Air Canada is anticipating a recovery in demand in the coming months as travel restrictions are eased and leisure passengers…

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Scotiabank’s website experiencing outage

OTTAWA — Scotiabank’s website is experiencing an outage to its online banking services. According to Downdetector.ca, the outage began around…

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U.K. irks E.U. with call to change post-Brexit trade rules

LONDON — The British government said Wednesday that post-Brexit trade rules it negotiated with the European Union “cannot go on”…

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Four companies on verge of settling U.S. opioid lawsuits

The three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a US$26…

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Zoom buying Five9 in US$14.7B all-stock transaction

Zoom, the videoconferencing company whose growth was supercharged by the pandemic over the past year, will buy the cloud call…

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