When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay
The cigarette industry had its Erin Brockovich moment in the nineties. How has it managed to survive?
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How Do You Make the Perfect Toy?
Fads come and go, but how to create a toy that stands the test of time is the billion-dollar question
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Clearing Out: BC’s Logging Industry Sets Its Sights on the US
Facing ecological and political uncertainty at home, some of the province’s largest lumber producers are looking south
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How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives
You can have a great credit history and still see your score plummet. How did the rating system become so powerful?
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Makeup and Money: The Persuasive Pull of Beauty Influencers
In the world of big cosmetics companies, authenticity has become a currency
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COVID-19 Upended the Labour Market. Why Haven’t Workers’ Lives Improved?
The pandemic offered us a chance to restructure society, and we’re squandering it
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Ask a Supply Chain Expert: Are Product Shortages Our New Normal?
’Tis the season to unpack the pandemic’s impact on production and distribution
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What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?
Cannabis legalization was supposed to be a licence to print money. Three years on, nobody is turning a profit
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Have We Been Thinking about Inflation All Wrong?
For decades, governments have done all they can to keep inflation down. But maybe letting things run hotter is exactly what we need
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