‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ helps push Disney past Wall Street estimates: ‘Well positioned for growth’

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Walt Disney reported earnings that topped Wall Street’s estimates on Thursday, propelled by blockbuster ticket sales from the rude and irreverent summer Marvel film “Deadpool & Wolverine,” and provided an upbeat forecast for the coming year. The company projected adjusted earnings-per-share percentage growth in the high single digits in fiscal 2025, even with capital expenditures of roughly … Read more

Inflation remains stubborn as wholesale prices accelerate after Fed rate cuts

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Wholesale prices in the US rose last month, remaining low but suggesting that the American economy has yet to completely vanquish inflationary pressure. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.2% from September to October, up from a 0.1% gain … Read more

Gary Vaynerchuk has some tough love for those who don’t embrace AI: Ride this wave or put your head in the sand and let it kill you

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Gary Vaynerchuk, better known as GaryVee, made his fortune and his reputation with his prescience. He invested in Facebook and Twitter in their infancy, predicted the rise of e-commerce and built an audience on YouTube in the early 2000s when it was still a new, fast-growing platform. With his many endeavors, including VaynerMedia, the 49-year-old … Read more

Brain implant startups aim to bring vision back to the blind

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A growing group of companies think their technology can give some patients the ability to see. Elon Musk Photographer: Nathan Laine/BloombergPhoto by Nathan Laine /Bloomberg Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer venture, and rivals like Max Hodak’s Science, are chasing advances in technology that could treat patients with severe vision loss, pursuing sci-fi-like solutions to widespread maladies like macular … Read more

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Quebec health workers holding down two jobs are being stripped of their extra hours

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Revealed: Quebec slashes thousands of health-care workers’ hours — a move critics warn could tip an already fragile system into further turmoil Last Friday, employees at several hospitals, including those under the McGill University Health Centre, received written confirmation via email: they must choose which job to keep by December 1.Photo by Khalil Hamra /THE … Read more

On the map: Burlington towns with lake views for $999,990 

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The final phase of Tyandaga Heights on the Park offers 32 three- and four-bedroom units including townhomes ranging from 1,513 to 2,220 square feet, and semi-detached units as large as 2,319 square feet. Photo by Photo courtesy of National Homes Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission … Read more

Class-action alleges abuse, cultural devastation at Canadian Indigenous group homes

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An Every Child Matters sign in Maskwacis, Alta., Monday, June 27, 2022. A new federal class action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that “was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged.”Photo by JASON FRANSON /THE … Read more

Israeli airstrikes hit Syria’s capital and a suburb, killing 15 people, Syrian state media say

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Security officers and rescuers gather at a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday. (Omar Sanadiki / Associated Press) Israel carried out at least two airstrikes on a western neighborhood of Damascus and one of the capital’s suburbs on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding another 16, Syria’s … Read more

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