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Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is cutting about 300 jobs as part of a reorganization meant to unify a slew of companies it bought in recent years. The reduction represents about 10 per cent of the Montreal e-commerce company’s head count-related operating expenditures, with half of the cost reduction coming from management. Lightspeed had 3,000 employees at the end of March, statistics from financial markets data firm Refinitiv showed. “After years of rapid growth — both organic and through acquisitions — we know our organizational structure has become too complex, with overlapping roles and a top-heavy framework,” said Lightspeed chief executive JP…

oronto police are searching for two suspects wanted in a Scarborough arson investigation. On Thursday, Jan. 5, at 4:40 a.m., police attended a fire in the Golden Mile area, near Warden Avenue and Sherry Road, which is south of Eglinton Avenue East. According to investigators, two suspects were driving a white Lexus SUV in a parking lot when they allegedly damaged the glass windows of two parked work trucks. Police said they poured accelerant inside the trucks before setting them on fire. The two suspects fled the area in the white Lexus SUV. They are only described as wearing dark…

The supportive signs and dozens of Serbian flags and loud chants of Novak Djokovic’s nickname filled Rod Laver Arena, providing a warm welcome marking his return to the Australian Open – a tournament he has dominated in the past but one he could not enter a year ago. Djokovic acknowledged the greeting with a quick wave of his left hand when he stepped out onto the court at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, then got down to business by playing quite well and only briefly showing a hint of trouble from the balky left hamstring that was heavily taped. With his parents…

Even Murray looked like he could not quite believe what he had done, puffing out his cheeks after a thrilling five-set victory over Italian 13th seed Matteo Berrettini at the Australian Open on Tuesday. He spent almost five hours on court, saving match point at 5-4 in the deciding set before winning the tie-break 10-6. Some of Murray’s fellow players were glued to screens watching the British three-time Grand Slam champion put in a vintage performance that legendary sports stars and mesmerised fans on social media could find only two words for: Andy Murray. The magical moments keep appearing for the former…

At a three-day retreat in Ottawa this week, New Democrat MPs are expected to focus discussion on getting more wins out of their confidence-and-supply agreement with the federal Liberals. Under the deal reached last March, the NDP agreed to support the minority government on key votes in the House of Commons to avoid triggering an election before 2025. In exchange, the Liberals promised to make progress on NDP priorities, including pharmacare. “We’ll absolutely be watching very carefully to see where the government is at, and whether or not they are going to honour their word,” NDP caucus chair Jenny Kwan said…

Canada’s alcohol industry is pushing back against a call for mandatory warning labels on booze containers as suggested in new guidance that also greatly limits the recommended amount Canadians should be drinking. CJ Helie, president of Beer Canada, said the industry is voluntarily informing people to drink responsibly so there’s no need for any labels. “A number of Canadian brewers, including a number of our members, have voluntary health warning labels or pictographs on packaging dealing with warnings against drinking while pregnant and driving while intoxicated,” Helie said. However, a report on the new drinking guidance released Tuesday by the…

The Queen of Pop will perform in London in October Madonna has announced a major world tour marking her 40th anniversary, including a show at London’s O2 Arena. The announcement comes after weeks of speculation the Queen of Pop had been planning something big to celebrate the milestone. The tour, ‘Madonna: The Celebration Tour’, will begin on July 15 and will feature her unmatched catalog of music from the past 40-plus years,” according to an announcement video. It will also “pay respect to the city of New York, where her career in music began.” She will perform in London on October…

The latest Twitter Files thread exposing the inner workings of the pre-Elon Musk era dropped on Monday, disclosing how pharmaceutical companies pressured the social media giant to censor activists voicing generic COVID-19 vaccine advocacy. “In 2020, it was clear that the pandemic would require rapid innovation. Early on, there was a push to make the solution equitable: an international partnership to share ideas, technology, new forms of medicine to rapidly solve this crisis,” tweeted investigative journalist Lee Fang. “But global drug giants saw the crisis as an opportunity for unprecedented profit. Behind closed doors, pharma launched a massive lobbying blitz…

Air Canada staff in Toronto were “put to the test” when recently tasked with shipping one of the largest items the airline has ever loaded into a Boeing 767 – a 44-foot long IMAX screen weighing nearly 2,000 lbs. The screen was shipped to Quito, Ecuador in November for a viewing of James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water,” according to a release issued by the airline Tuesday. “While Air Canada Cargo moves some pretty large items with its Boeing 767 freighters, the shipment of an IMAX screen from Toronto to Quito in November put the aircraft and the Air…

Canada’s annual inflation rate cooled to 6.3 per cent in December, its lowest level since February. Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that the deceleration in the cost of living was mostly due to a 13 per cent decrease in the price of gasoline, which saw its biggest one-month plunge since April of 2020. The average gasoline price across Canada is now only three per cent higher than it was this time last year, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine turned the global oil market upside down. Canadians may have gotten some relief from higher prices every time they filled up their…