Higher learning: U of T's new 'timber tower' to house schools of business, global affairs
The University of Toronto has started building a new “mass timber” tower, 14 storeys and 77 metres high. It will be the ...
Behind how the Star helped establish Toronto’s original ball hockey league
In 1973, the Toronto Star published a story on how 15-year-old James Plytas and his friends started the Metro Toronto Ball ...
Cadillac Fairview on future of Nordstrom building in downtown Vancouver
The former Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver tower at CF Pacific Centre will be demolished as the Nordstrom building is ...
City News17d
Rogers activates new cellular towers on B.C.’s Highway of Tears to boost 911 access
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Telecom giant Rogers Communications says it has activated five new cellular towers along British Columbia’s Highway of Tears, marking the “substantial completion” of efforts to ...
BBC19d
London's disappeared department stores of days gone by
Once the bastion of middle-class ladies going up to town to shop, with deferential and attentive staff and a respectable place to lunch, department stores were a world away from today's shopping ...
Nottingham Post20d
Uncertainty over future of major old Nottingham department store after vital deadline passes
The absence of change at the department store is a setback for the near totally abandoned Lister Gate, which the city council is attempting to revive by redeveloping the vast space where the ...
The Financial Times21d
Jo Malone plans to open a dozen new stores outside London
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fragrance brand Jo Malone London is planning to open at least a dozen new stores as it bets on customers ...
The Daily Telegraph22d
M&S loses ‘grandma shop’ image as young flock to department store
The Telegraph revealed in 2023 that M&S had started a push to sell more high street brands alongside its own clothes both in stores and online, with plans to increase the number of third-party ...
Daily Mail23d
Major upscale department store goes private in $6.25 billion deal
A major American department store chain is going private in a $6.25billion deal that will see its founding family regain control. Executives at Nordstrom announced Monday that Erik, Pete and Jamie ...
USA Today23d
Are holiday department store displays becoming a ghost of Christmas past?
That sense of joy around Christmas." Now, as some high-end department stores close and others struggle to adapt to shoppers' changing habits, residents such as Jones are wondering: Are big holiday ...
Newsweek23d
Who Is the Nordstrom Family? Department Store Goes Private in $6.25B Deal
The Nordstrom department store chain is set to go private after the Nordstrom family announced on Monday that it had made a $6.25 billion deal to buy all remaining shares in the company alongside ...
CBC.ca23d
Robbers crash truck into Rexdale jewelry store, steal merchandise, police say
A man is in hospital after another smash-and-grab jewelry store robbery in the Greater Toronto Area Sunday evening, when police say the suspects crashed a vehicle into the building. Toronto ...