TORONTO — The new owners of Zellers will soon expand the relaunched brand to Ontario but are first making a few tweaks.

The discount retailer, which currently has one location in Edmonton, will open a store on Orfus Road, just south of Yorkdale Mall in Toronto, on June 18 and another at Windsor’s Tecumseh Mall in July.

Joey Benitah, Zellers’ chief operating officer, said the plan is to slowly nationalize the brand.

“Ultimately, we’re looking to be in every major market from coast

A new report says boosting economic relations with Indigenous partners and incorporating their world views in business decision-making can help position Canada for a more resilient economic future.

The report, published Wednesday by Deloitte’s Future of Canada Centre, explores how sovereign Indigenous economic partnerships are among Canada’s most underleveraged growth opportunities.

“As Canada grapples and comes to terms with a very challenging economic and global restructuring, Indigenous peoples being included in economic growth and new projects is going to be part of the solution and not an additional

In the almost 100 years since Zellers was founded, the discount department store has died and been revived several times.

Its current owners are less than a year into their relaunch but say they have national expansion plans.

Here’s a look at the history of Zellers:

1928: Waterloo, Ont., entrepreneur Walter Philip Zeller opens the first Zellers department store, but it is bought by American firm Schulte-United Ltd. within months.

1931: Schulte-United files for

MONTREAL — The death of a three-year-old girl from a bouncy castle tossed into the air by strong winds in Montreal over the weekend is drawing attention to the safety of the inflatable play structures.

Cathy Denis, owner of an inflatable-structure rental company in Quebec, said she doesn’t install or operate bouncy castles or similar inflatables when forecasts call for wind speeds exceeding 38 kilometres per hour.

She said that limit is important because inflatables present a large surface area and sudden gusts can move the structures

TORONTO — Until just a few years ago, Andersson Boscan ran La Posta, a digital media outlet he co-founded in Ecuador and helped grow into one of the country’s most influential online voices.

Boscan and his wife Monica Velasquez, both journalists, published explosive stories on how powerful politicians colluded with drug cartels and organized crime rings at the expense of ordinary people.

One of their investigations played a key role in bringing the presidency of Guillermo Lasso to an end in 2023, fuelling impeachment proceedings that

Tomas Hertl took a backhand pass from Colton Sisson and beat Frederik Andersen from the slot with 3:24 left in the third period, lifting the Vegas Golden Knights past the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 in Tuesday night’s opener of the Stanley Cup Final.

Hertl finished off Sisson’s feed from the right faceoff circle to break a 4-4 tie and push the Golden Knights ahead in an entertaining back-and-forth start on the sport’s biggest stage.

It marked Vegas’ seventh straight win

CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he allegedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job. The move deepened the turmoil at the nation’s most influential TV news program and the news unit that oversees it.

Pelley had criticized the program’s leadership during a meeting Monday between the show’s staff and Nick Bilton, the new executive producer named by

NEW YORK (AP) — Jill Biden says she’s sorry she didn’t talk more about her son Hunter’s drug addiction during her time in the White House, explaining that she now realizes that being open about his substance abuse and his recovery can offer hope to others in the same situation.

In a wide-ranging interview with “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg to promote her White House memoir , the former first lady said Tuesday that she had put life in perspective after her husband,