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Lowe's Gives Up On Canadian Expansion Move

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.17.2012 | Canada Business
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MONTREAL - U.S.-based Lowe's may not have ended its cross-border courtship for Rona Inc. despite abandoning its $1.8-billion bid for the Canadian home...

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Forget Door-to-Door, Digital Fundraising is All the Rage

Neil Parmar | Posted 11.08.2012 | Canada Impact
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Neil Parmar

Back-to-school season often means the return of door-to-door fundraisers hawking boxes of cookies, chocolates and other goods that have fuelled a $1.4-billion cottage industry. But executives behind Better the World, a for-profit social enterprise based in Toronto, hope to flip how Canadians give to charitable causes.

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Lowe's Bid For Rona In Trouble, CEO Admits

AP | Posted 08.20.2012 | Canada Business
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A takeover of Quebec-based Rona by Lowe's is unlikely in the near future, the head of the U.S. home improvement giant said Monday in ...

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Major Union Joins Opposition To Lowe's Rona Bid

CP | Posted 08.03.2012 | Canada Business
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MONTREAL -- A major union has joined the outcry against the proposed takeover of Rona Inc. (TSX:RON) by Lowe's, the No. 2 home-improvement chain in th...

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Rona Will Stay Rona .. For Now

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.30.2012 | Canada Business
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MONTREAL - Quebec has come out swinging against a $1.76-billion bid for Canada's largest home improvement company by U.S.-based Lowe's, which is expec...

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The Lowest of the Lowes

Hina P. Ansari | Posted 02.12.2012 | Canada
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Hina P. Ansari

The Florida Family Association threw a fanatical hissy fit and complained that the TLC show All-American Muslim was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values." The Lowes chain caved and pulled their ads from the show. Why?!

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