Sears closing five stores in Canada

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Description: Sears Canada has announced to close five stores in Canada including its store in the Toronto’s Eaton center—its flagship store in Toronto. This announcement comes at a time when Target plans to open 33 more stores in Canada. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 29, 2013 Video Link:  http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2415020369/?page=2 Questions for Discussion: Do you agree with… Read more »

Amazon’s ambitious plan to sell groceries online

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Description: Amazon is now selling nearly 15,000 non-refrigerated food items to online shoppers in Canada. These items include soups, coffee, jar goods, chips and candies among others. You can now stay home and get all these food items at your door step. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 31, 2013 Video Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2415470441/ Questions for Discussion: How do… Read more »

Is there actually a skill shortage in Canada?

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Description: There are conflicting reports on whether Canada faces a skill shortage. While the Canadian government insists that there is severe shortage of skilled people in Canada, a recent TD report rebuffs that claim. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 22, 2013 Video Link:  http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2413451599/?page=2 Questions for Discussion: Do you agree with the government or the TD… Read more »

Twitter’s ride to becoming public

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Description: Twitter is preparing itself for its initial public offering (IPO) in early November on the New York stock exchange. Alyson Shontell of Business Insider discusses the growth of Twitter since its humble beginnings. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 25, 2013 Video Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2414476857/ Questions for Discussion: Why Twitter’s growth path is termed chaotic? Considering that… Read more »

Air Canada’s new strategy

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Description: Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu discusses the procedural changes that led Air Canada to post its best second quarter earnings ever; Air Canada has been in business for 75 years. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 18 2013 Video link:  http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2412964045/ Questions for Discussion: Explain the process that eventually led to Air Canada’s successful quarter earnings?… Read more »

Public cost of low wages

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Description: Sylvia Allegretto, Labour Economist at University of California, Berkley, discusses the high public costs of paying low wage to fast food employees: it costs U.S. public $7 billion dollars to compensate these employees. More than half of fast food employees are enrolled in U.S. public programs. Source: CBC Date: Oct 18 2013 Video link:… Read more »

Is there value in pursuing post-secondary education?

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Description:  Canadian universities are seeing record enrolments but fees are getting more expensive. There’s been an ongoing debate on whether there’s value is paying such high fees for post-secondary education. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 08, 2013 Video Link:  http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2411181426/?page=2 Questions for Discussion: What are the benefits and drawbacks of pursuing post-secondary education? What are the… Read more »

Youth and unions

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Description: Youths are turned off by unions. Despite the fact that young people receive low wages with little or no benefits, they seems less interested in promoting unions. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 09, 2013 Video Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2411422768/?page=2 Questions for Discussion: What are some of the reasons why today’s youth are not interested in unions? How… Read more »

Promoting NHL in the U.S. market

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Description: U.S. is a crowded market for professional sports. While NHL is the number 1 professional sport in Canada, it is ranked 4 in the U.S. Source: CBC Date: Oct. 04, 2013 Video Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2410484343/ Questions for Discussion: Why have the southern teams not been able to make money? Suggest some measures to promote NHL… Read more »

Future of Newspapers

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Description: Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, calls print papers a luxury item which are well on their way out. On the other hand, Conrad Black argues that it’s too early to call for the demise of print newspapers. Source: CBC Date: Sept. 25, 2013 Video Link:  http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2408595473/ Questions for Discussion: Analyze the arguments that Conrad Black has… Read more »