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Our latest stories on business, the economy, trade, taxes, labour, and how our work lives are adapting to the needs of a changing world

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Business

When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay

September 16, 2022September 28, 2022 - by Joshua Knelman

The cigarette industry had its Erin Brockovich moment in the nineties. How has it managed to survive?

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Business / September/October 2022

How Do You Make the Perfect Toy?

September 6, 2022September 8, 2022 - by Matthew Braga

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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Business / July/August 2022

Clearing Out: BC’s Logging Industry Sets Its Sights on the US

June 28, 2022July 6, 2022 - by Caitlin Stall-Paquet

Facing ecological and political uncertainty at home, some of the province’s largest lumber producers are looking south

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Business / June 2022

How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives

May 24, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Emily Baron Cadloff

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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Business

Makeup and Money: The Persuasive Pull of Beauty Influencers

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 - by Daphné B

In the world of big cosmetics companies, authenticity has become a currency

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Business

Navigating a Changing Economy

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

Conversations about work, inflation, and real estate dominated the year

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Business

COVID-19 Upended the Labour Market. Why Haven’t Workers’ Lives Improved?

December 3, 2021April 30, 2022 - by Lucy Uprichard

The pandemic offered us a chance to restructure society, and we’re squandering it

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Business / January/February 2022

Ask a Supply Chain Expert: Are Product Shortages Our New Normal?

November 24, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Harish Krishnan

’Tis the season to unpack the pandemic’s impact on production and distribution

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Business

What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?

August 5, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Kieran Delamont

Cannabis legalization was supposed to be a licence to print money. Three years on, nobody is turning a profit

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Business

Have We Been Thinking about Inflation All Wrong?

July 30, 2021December 6, 2021 - by Max Fawcett

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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