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If you have any shopping planned for this weekend, you’d best get it done before Monday when retail stores around the city will either be closed or operating on holiday hours. Here is what will be open and closed on the holiday:
The Eaton Centre will be open on Victoria Day from 10 a.m. to 6 […]

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DETROIT—A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was travelling with a pressure cooker is due in court.
Hussain Al Khawahir is scheduled to appear Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit for a hearing to determine whether he will be released on bond or detained.
Al Khawahir […]

As with fast payday loans, this recently used to be the case, but competitive lenders and higher demand has taken this loan type to mainstay levels.

General Motors plans to unveil a line of revamped midsize pickup trucks later this year with gas mileage and features designed to take sales from Toyota’s Tacoma.
The trucks will replace the aging Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. GM North America President Mark Reuss ((ROY-ss)) says they’ll be able to do 95 percent of the work […]

At a breakfast Wednesday for about 230 people, Liberal leadership candidate Justin Trudeau was the smiling, supportive husband. The star of the morning was his wife, Sophie Gr

SHANGHAI—Two more people have contracted bird flu in Shanghai, China’s health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities closed live poultry markets and culled birds to combat a new virus strain that has killed six people.
State-run Xinhua News Agency said authorities planned to slaughter birds at two live poultry markets in Shanghai and another in Hangzhou […]

First flooding. Then drought.
If Midwesterners weren’t already thinking about water, after two consecutive years of extremes, they probably are now.
In fact, water and river issues are becoming so prominent, especially in the St. Louis area, that a handful of water-related events are on the agenda here, underscoring a new urgency around water challenges.
On Thursday, the […]

Andrea Bargnani’s worst season of his NBA career is over.
The Toronto Raptors announced Wednesday that forward Bargnani is expected to be sidelined for the remainder of season with an “avulsion sprain” of the right elbow.
This injury isn’t related to his previous right elbow injury which forced him to miss 26
games starting in December.
Bargnani […]

The new law will restrict sugary drinks to no more than 16 ounces. But a , Fortune 500) spokeswoman confirmed to CNNMoney that the coffee company isn’t making any immediate changes to its menu.

“Because customers can make so many choices in their beverages, we feel that most of […]

Employers plan to be a little more generous with pay raises next year — especially when it comes to their top performers.
Almost all — or 98% — of the 1,500 mid-sized and large employers surveyed by consulting firm Mercer said they plan to increase salaries in 2013. On average, salaries are expected to […]

Companies are growing more pessimistic about the U.S. economy this year and plan to limit hiring as the European debt crisis hurts sales and concern rises over the looming so-called fiscal cliff, a survey showed.
Some 62 percent of businesses project no change in employment over the next six months, according results of a National […]