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A Lululemon store in Toronto last Wednesday. The athleisure retailer is languishing at a seven-year low ahead of earnings this week.Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail
It’s June, and for parents that means one thing: schools act like they’ve discovered a warehouse full of activities that they forgot to schedule all year and need to clear the shelves before summer.
Field trips. Wacky Hair Day. Wear-a-Random-Colour T-Shirt Day (cerulean, apparently). Recitals. Conveniently scheduled for the middle of the day.
It’s like getting ready for a marathon by juggling flaming batons.
In this economy? Canada is expected to churn out 10,000 new jobs for the month of April. The numbers come out on Friday. That would be better than the 17,700 drop in the previous month but hardly cause for celebration. Especially since we now know that Canada was in a technical recession…
