Online grocer Spud.ca – which delivers to Calgary, Edmonton and throughout B.C., – has launched a campaign to help highlight women-led brands.
"We started looking at the industry and an interesting fact came up, only 18 per cent of businesses in Canada are women led. It's a very male dominated industry."
"If consumers like it, then it spirals from there, and then more consumers want the . The next retailer could pick it up and say, 'Yes, we're also going to start this product because it's proven.'" "Lots of women are starting businesses, but very few are scaling and sustaining the business," she said.
"The population is changing, we need more women in advanced manufacturing, we need more women in consumer goods," she said. Since reporting on old fines tanking the credit scores of thousands of Ottawans and former residents, CTV News has received a flood of similar accounts from people claiming the city and its contracted collection agencies did not do enough to contact them before their credit score was slashed.
As the contract stalemate between the province and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation continues, a Saskatoon labour lawyer says some creative thinking is required to get both sides back to the negotiating table.A pre-schooler from Warman got some unlikely support as he battles a rare kidney disease, and the help started with a small idea in his community and spread all the way down to Regina.
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