This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that takes you through the day’s biggest stories, helps you discover new ideas and recommends the best in culture. Register here. Southwest Airlines was just hit with a hefty fine for its holiday mishap last year. The penalty is a step toward accountability, but it … [Read more…]
Under a settlement reached with the Federal Trade Commission, Rite Aid will not be allowed to use AI-powered facial recognition technology for another five years. In a complaint filed Tuesday, the FTC accuses Rite Aid of “recklessly” using facial surveillance systems from 2012 to 2020. According to the FTC, during this period Rite Aid used … [Read more…]
The accelerated, paid construction training courses that Quebec is offering to compensate for labor shortages have met with unexpected success. More than 45,000 applications for admission were submitted by applicants seeking to work in one of the five most in-demand construction trades. On October 30, the government unveiled its “construction offensive” and launched four training … [Read more…]
Price increases at grocery stores continued to decline in November from a year earlier, as did prices for cell phone service and heating oil, allowing inflation to stabilize in November, according to Statistics Canada data released Tuesday. • Also read: Lowering the key interest rate: “It’s still too early,” says Tiff Macklem The consumer price … [Read more…]
After a major outage, Desjardins’ ATMs are operational again; The service will gradually resume. “Operations have gradually resumed since 9:30 a.m. and ATMs will be operational shortly. We thank you for your patience,” wrote the Mouvement des Caisses Desjardins on Facebook. “An issue beyond our control is affecting our call centers and preventing us from … [Read more…]
To boost sales of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and ban the sale of gasoline vehicles by 2035, Ottawa is introducing new incentives to persuade the private sector to produce and sell more ZEVs and also encouraging the installation of charging stations. • Also read: It’s a headache to repair a car that’s barely 10 years old … [Read more…]
The financier of the Legault government, Finance Minister Eric Girard, has lost all the room for maneuver he had given himself in the 2023-2024 budget presented last March. According to the report on the financial situation for the 2nd quarter just presented by the Minister, the “contingency reserves” of 1.5 billion provided for in the … [Read more…]
Stephanie Scanlan learned the shocking shortages of essential chemotherapy drugs this spring. Two of the three drugs normally used to treat her rare bone cancer were too rare. She would have to move on without them. Ms. Scanlan, 56, head of a busy state office in Tallahassee, Florida, had sought the drugs for months as … [Read more…]
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A U.S. inspection of a facility in Ecuador that produced bags of contaminated applesauce linked to at least 125 cases of suspected lead poisoning in children found “extremely high” levels of the metal in a key ingredient: cinnamon. The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that tested … [Read more…]
Shares of Affirm (AFRM) rose as much as 13% on Tuesday morning after news that the company would be adding buy now, pay later functionality to self-checkout lines at Walmart (WMT). Shoppers can already use Affirm to allocate payments for goods purchased on walmart.com, at the company’s auto centers, its vision centers and at regular … [Read more…]