Canadians may have started holiday shopping earlier than usual this year, but the sales will not be the same this year – due to supply chain disruptions.
Retailers are pulling back on the preholiday sales to keep up with soaring costs.
Shoppers can still expect to see the usual Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, but some retailers have been signalling the sales will not be the same this year.
“We’re definitely having discussions around, can we afford to put everything in the store on sale and break even or lose money on certain products?” said Beth McKercher, owner of Splash Toy Shop in Richmond, B.C.
The legendary Indigenous storyteller Lee Maracle was a powerful writer – poet, novelist, essayist. She was also a fierce activist with an indomitable presence, writes @marshalederman
Maracle received many awards and honours in her lifetime, including the Order of Canada. But perhaps the greatest recognition lies in the words peers and admirers in the literary community had for Maracle on Thursday upon learning of her death. tgam.ca/3n7YgGX
"Maybe the most important thing she taught me was to fiercely be myself in the face of demands for me to be someone else." - @jessewente tgam.ca/3n7YgGX
At Travis Scott’s concert in Houston, the crowd surged toward the front, leading to chaos and tragedy. Hundreds were injured and nine people have died, including a 22-year-old college student who died from her injuries today.
Travis Scott’s concerts are often electric and buzzing with energy, but they’ve never escalated to this level. This tragedy is a symptom of rap’s adoption of punk sensibilities, argues @DemarJGrant tgam.ca/3qw0UbC
Rap music can be as visceral as punk music. But while punk shows are rooted in a sense of etiquette and safety that took years to develop after deadly crowd crushes, this etiquette hasn’t fully crossed over with today’s rap fans or artists.
For Afghan interpreters in Canada, some came to Canada long before the Taliban conquest. Others scrambled to get on the last flights from Kabul in August.
All were reunited with soldiers who’ve helped them on their journeys.
Maryam Sahar calls Charlotte Greenall “Mom,” to express how much she means to her. They met when Ms. Sahar become a teenaged translator for the Canadian military in Afghanistan.
“What we did there is really big. But what Maryam did is 10 times that.”
Jack Rhind fought in the WWII, and while he’s proud of how he and his comrades rose to the challenge, the brutality of war is something the 101-year-old veteran hopes to never see again.
"We need to remember how stupid and unnecessary war is."
In 1939, Mr. Rhind made a “significant, casual decision” as a young university student to follow a friend into the artillery stream of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps.
🔊"If you don't know much about the Canadian Dairy Commission, @CDC_Dairy, you're not alone ... It's owned by Canadians, it's a Crown Corporation, and ... its role is to set prices at farm gate so dairy farmers make a decent living." - @FoodProfessor. tgam.ca/3D4SWtr