So Gordon Lightfoot has actually died, and is NOT trending on Twitter. Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh :(

These are fantastic, great work

2023 in charts: Experts predict what’s to come for housing, jobs, wages and more theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Is there a reliable and safe tool to search/cross reference who of your twitter follows is on Mastodon? Ideally with notifications when new people you follow on Twitter join Mastodon? It's tedious searching people one by one.

“When you buy a turnaround, you’re in fight mode. You’re going to fight with landlords, suppliers, internal people. You have to be okay knowing it’s going to get bad. It takes a certain personality to say, ‘I’m okay with the dumpster fire I just bought.’” theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-m…

I WILL REVIVE: Jason Kirby wrote about turnaround artist Doug Putman, whose roster of brands (including Toys'R'Us and HMV) employs 20,000 and generates billions in sales. Inside his plan to make retail fun again
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To avoid any confusion

And there goes one of the lead trucks, with its hand-scrawled message “End gourment corruption”

And that’s how a Canadian blockade of the country’s most important economic artery ends. Not with truncheons or even arrests but a protester sweeping up before they leave.

The unendurable heights of durable goods inflation theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

While U.S. inflation is still overwhelmingly being driven by rising prices for durable goods, inflation is creeping into stickier sectors of the economy like personal services, from haircuts to dry cleaning to getting Fluffy groomed. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

How tax competitive is 🇨🇦 vs 🇺🇸, as both countries fight for business investment to: grow their economies & shore up vital supply chains? We looked at 3 examples with PwC: #vaccine & #EV battery production + #criticalmineral mining. Here’s a short 🧵 of our findings. 1/9

📈📊🎉🥳 Happy new year to the chart nerds – we went a bit overboard this year, with 55(!) charts on the future of the economy in 2022.

Compiled by Jason Kirby, awesome illos from Dave Murray – and a clutch performance by The Globe and Mail's chart tool.

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It’s really something that a completely made up asset class came with a completely made up extractive industry that, despite its artificiality, still tends to be heedlessly destructive of the actual natural environment.

Hello darkness my old friend

Edward Rogers has ousted Joe Natale as CEO of Rogers, and the man who will forever be known as the butt-dialling CEO (even if technically he butt-answered his phone) is taking his place theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…