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Business

Tupperware, pioneer of food storage and sales parties, files for bankruptcy

Tupperware Brands, the company that revolutionized food storage decades ago, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Tupperware, based in…

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia craft beer pioneer ‘personified what the industry is in its best form’

When craft beer pioneer Kevin Keefe opened the Granite Brewery inside Ginger’s Tavern in Halifax in 1985, his English-style beers were…

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Entertainment

Phil Donahue, talk show pioneer, dead at 88

Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched a television genre that made household names of Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen…

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Entertainment

John Mayall, influential British blues pioneer, dies at 90

LONDON – John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton,…

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Entertainment

Blues pioneer John Mayall dies at 90

LONDON (AP) – John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric…

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Politics

With ‘superhuman’ artificial intelligence looming, Canada needs law now: AI pioneer

The federal government must move quickly to regulate artificial intelligence, said a top AI pioneer who warns the technology’s current trajectory…

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Politics

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio urges Canada to build $1B public supercomputer

Yoshua Bengio has been thinking for a while about what happens if the technology he helped pioneer becomes smarter than…

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Sports

P.E.I. ‘pioneer’ makes history officiating in Maritime Junior Hockey League 

Ellen Dixon knew many people were watching her as she stepped onto the ice at the start of the Summerside…

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Canada

Calgary football pioneer Norman Kwong to be remembered in new Heritage Minute

The life and legacy of Calgary’s Norman Kwong are the focus of a new Heritage Minute documentary, 75 years after…

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Business

Exxon makes $60B bet on shale oil with deal to buy Permian giant Pioneer

Exxon Mobil agreed to buy U.S. rival Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion that would…

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