Transportation
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Emerging trends fundamentally changing Canadian businesses, says BDC report
Embracing digital technology and workforce diversity are just two of the key business trends identified by BDC’s most recent report
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Ottawa to reduce small business tax rate to 9 per cent
The addition of a tax cut to the federal Liberal government’s small business tax reform plan appears to be the political equivalent of a spoonful of sugar to quell an angry backlash to proposed tax reform
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Commercial plane hits drone near Quebec City, suffers minor damage
A small Skyjet plane carrying eight passengers collided with a drone about three kilometres from Quebec City’s airport last week, the first such case in Canada
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Toronto’s Pearson Airport’s ground crew ends strike against employer Swissport
The 700 ramp equipment operators, baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and other ground crew workers went on strike July 27 to protest pay and benefits cuts and scheduling issues
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Ship delivers propane to Churchill, Man., leaving with Via train
Some people in the isolated town had discussed forming a blockade to prevent the train from leaving by ship to protest rail line owner Omnitrax, which wont repair the track because it is no longer economically viable
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Trump’s ‘break it now, fix it later’ tactic creating chaos at NAFTA talks
Officials from other countries say the “sheepish” body language of U.S. negotiators, who have tabled demands beyond the realm of what’s palatable to the other parties, speaks volumes as to how they perceive Trump’s chaos-inducing tactics
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Sodecia opens new $30M London, Ont. stamping plant, will add 44 jobs
The 200,000 sq. ft. facility will boost the company’s capacity for lightweight parts and help it add new products
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Bombardier to miss Toronto streetcar delivery target again
The manufacturer expanded its Thunder Bay, Ont. assembly line to boost production last year. It says it has met its quarterly targets since the adjustment, but will still come up short this year
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U.S. drops bombshell ‘sunset clause’ in NAFTA talks, and vows more
America’s so-called NAFTA partners are baffled by the new demands and are trying to figure if this hardline approach signals a U.S desire to poison the talks, let them collapse and simply do away with NAFTA
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Trudeau acknowledges NAFTA gloom, says he’s ready for anything
The Prime Minister admitted that talks have been challenging while Mexico’s foreign relations secretary said his country would not sign a bad deal, adding that leaving the treaty “would not be the end of the world”