Business partnership with Toronto startup NIKU Farms may seem like an odd choice for Marlin Martin, who doesn’t have a smartphone or internet access, but is in step with modern consumers seeking ethical meat.

Credit Suisse Group AG lost about US$60 million late last year after it was left holding shares in a North American clothing company that slumped during rising trade tensions between Canada and China, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Credit Suisse, which acted as underwriter on the sale of 10 million shares by Canada Goose Holdings Inc. stockholders in late November, saw the value of the stock tumble after the arrest of Huawei Technologies Co’s finance chief in Canada prompted a diplomatic dispute between the two countries, the people said, asking to not to be identified as the loss isn’t public.

The competition between loyalty and reward programs has ramped up in recent years and as the programs compete, plan members who neglect their accounts in favour of other programs increase the chances their points may expire.

Despite a sprinkling of job postings for roles in the new Toronto grocery team, of Uber Eats there's been no launch yet and the brand has said little about what that service might look like.

A woman who miscarried twin boys is devastated that information she gave to a trusted store ended up in the hands of third-party marketing companies — resulting in baby formula arriving at her door when she was no longer pregnant.

"We just lost our babies and we were still recovering," Ekaterina Mansouri said during an interview in her Toronto home.

"Right away I thought, 'How could they have this campaign and not think through that they will potentially be hurting women in my situation?' Miscarriages are very common."