Moms To Be and More theft reported
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•Amsterdam Brewery moves to Esandar Drive
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•Amsterdam Brewery has announced that it will move to Leaside Industrial Park east of Laird Drive. The address will be 45 Esandar Road down the way and around the corner a little bit from the newly-opened Leaside Village. The premises is now a large multi-tenant warehouse building (inset) which seems quite suitable for the Amsterdam business. The transfer date is November 1, 2012. The new shop will feature a “sampling facility” with more than ten beers on tap as well as a retail store with a 400 square foot glass wall so shoppers can look into the brewery. There will also be a 2000 squre foot event space for dinners, brewing seminars (of course) and other weekly events.
Corner stores over-regulated lobby says
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•Remember Bayview Express? |
A report to the Canadian Convenience Store Association says over-regulation is crippling the convenience store industry in Canada. This is especially true for independent stores, the report maintains. Corner store owners are said to be dealing with 517 federal and provincial laws and regulations at an estimated annual cost of $225-million. The report is being presented today at a meeting of Canadian retailers, distributors and manufacturers in Toronto. A report in the Financial Post says that for every dollar of profit the industry generates, governments collect $16 in revenue. The story does not say it but it would appear much of the government’s take on corner store business comes from the large tax on cigarettes. Profits in the industry are about $1-billion a year, and revenue generated by the convenience store industry for government exceeds $16-billion.
Swarming on Laird near Eglinton (knife shown)
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•Great Expectations (2012) to premiere at TIFF
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•Holliday Grainger |
CRTC tests Bell/Astral deal for market share
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•This story asks if the swallowing up of Astral Media by omnivorous Bell breaks some sort of “threshold”. Asrtral owns Newstalk 1010 and 83 other radio stations, HBO and numerous Pay and Specialty Channels. Who knew there was a threshold? Vancouver Sun.
Gardiner ramps closed for six weeks
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•“Calendar Girls” revived by Yorkshire players
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•The original Calendar Girls |