The Home Depot Canada has a new FREE workshops available today! The Home Depot Canada today FREE workshops includes: Kids Workshops – Build a Tool Box – Canada Day. Join our hands-on workshop and you and your child can build a tool box. Once the project is complete, your child can personalize their tool box with paint and Canada Day stickers. All kids get to keep their project. Children must be between the ages of 5-12 and must be present at the store to participate in the workshop and receive the kit. Limited quantity available.
The Home Depot Canada FREE workshops is valid today, Saturday, June 24, 2017 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
To book your slot at a workshop, contact your local Home Depot location.
Sears has announced a restructuring plan as they attempt to stay in business while filing or creditor protection. Sears will cut around 2900 jobs including 500 office positions. They will be closing 59 stores and will have liquidation sales at those stores. Store closings include regular Sears department stores as well as Sears Home and Sears Outlet stores.
Sears Stores Closing
Medicine Hat, AB
Grande Prairie, AB
Lloydminster, AB
Red Deer Relocation, AB
Kamloops Aberdeen Mall, BC
Bathurst, NB.
Saint John, NB
Corner Brook, NL
Truro Mall, NS
Dartmouth, NS
Brockville, ON
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Hull, QC
Chicoutimi, QC
St. Georges de Beauce, QC
Alma, QC
Drummondville, QC
Regina, SK
Moose Jaw, SK
Prince Albert, SK
Sears Hometown Stores Closing
Cold Lake, AB
St. Albert, AB
Okotoks, AB
Spruce Grove, AB
Ft. McMurray, AB
Leduc, AB
Sherwood Park, AB
Creston, BC
Sechelt, BC
Grand Forks, BC
Orangeville, ON
Rimouski, QC
Rouyn-Noranda, QC
Melville, SK
Sears Outlet Stores Closing
Abbotsford Retail, BC
Winnipeg Garden City, MB
Halifax Outlet, NS
Cornwall, ON
Chatham, ON
Cambridge, ON
Timmins, ON
St. Eustache, QC
Montreal Place Vertu, QC
Sorel, QC
Sears Home Stores Closing
Calgary, AB
Edmonton Skyview, AB
Ancaster, ON
Woodbridge, ON
London, ON
Scarborough, ON
Kingston, ON
Ottawa East, ON
Sudbury, ON
Windsor, ON
Orillia, ON
St. Bruno, QC
Laval, QC
Quebec City, QC
Ste. Foy, QC
It seems that Alberta will lose quite a few stores while Ontario loses the bulk of the Sears Home stores closing. The timing of store closures will depend on the locations so best to check with them for updates. Online sales from Sears.ca will continue and they will be honouring any returns/warranties in the mean time. If you have an item you need to return, I would do it soon though!
When was the last time you actually shopped at Sears?
Cinnabon Canada is introducing NEW Cinnabon Chips! Crispy baked swirls of Cinnabon’s famous rolls served with frosting… it will be this summers’ “Chip and Dip” taste sensation!
Also, you can cool down all summer long with any size lemonade or vanilla iced coffee for only $1.50.
A new study released by the Canadian Cancer Society predicts that half of all Canadians will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime. More startling than this statistic, one in four will actually die from the disease.
The annual cancer statistics report for 2017 revealed the harrowing numbers that an estimated 206,200 Canadians will be diagnosed and 80,800 would die from the disease.
Part of the reason for this increase, said the lead epidemiologist for the charity, Leah Smith, is because of Canada’s aging population. They reported that over 90 percent of all cancers expected to be diagnosed will be in people who are of 50 years of age or older.
But despite the reports that cancer will become the leading cause of death in Canadians in the near future, the actual overall mortality rate of cancer has decreased over the past three decades. Since 1988, when the disease was taking the most lives, the rates among men has fallen by 30 percent while in women it has fallen by 17 percent.
The big four that continue to take the most lives – prostate, lung, colorectal and breast – are predicted to be among more than half of all diagnoses for 2017.
There are generally three main categories that risk factors for causing cancer can fall under; heredity (genetics), lifestyle choices and exposure to cancer-causing substances (carcinogens) in your surrounding environment.
While some of these risk factors cannot be helped, e.g. genes or age, there are some changes that the Canadian Cancer Society advises people make to reduce their risk factor of developing cancer later in life.
RBC announced that they would be cutting about 450 jobs from across the country, most of which would be positions held in the head office in Toronto.
In an emailed statement to the Toronto Star, the said that they are“making changes that focus on the capabilities that we need now and in the future to meet our clients’ evolving needs.”
The bank continued by saying that they are planning to use the funds cut from this consolidation to refocus energy and money into emerging areas, such as digital, data and new technology.
Lenders in Canada, such as the big five, have been cutting costs over the past few years in order to adapt to a changing marketplace with clients expecting newer and different technologies from their banks. Another major factor contributing to the firms shrinking budgets is their need to deal with lower interest rates and global plummeting oil prices.
As mentioned, one of the bigger reinvestments that the banks are making, taking RBC as one of the major examples, is in newer technology to suit the preferences of a younger and more tech-friendly demographic.
Are you a diehard rom-com binger, and like to watch movies like the 2011 hit, Friends With Benefits, on a repeat loop? Or perhaps you’re more of a science fiction fan, who counts down the days (and even hours) to the release of each iteration of the Star Wars saga. No matter what your genre preference is, the new releases for July from Netflix Canada are going to satisfy almost everyone’s wants and needs for the summer.
*Note: All of the movies that have received an 80 percent or higher rating on Rotten Tomatoes (for the Tomatometer score) have been giving an asterisk!
July 1:
Albion: The Enchanted Stallion
Batman: Bad Blood
Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men – Season 1-2
Dark Matter – Season 2
Draft Day
Given
Hacksaw Ridge*
Keep Quiet*
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Last Vegas
Legends of the Fall
Let’s Be Cops
Oasis: Supersonic*
Offspring – Season 6
Out of Thin Air
Raising Arizona
Snatch
Snowden
Southside with You*
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble*
The Riot Club
The Wedding Pact
Welcome to Me
X-Men: Days of Future Past*
July 2-6:
Miss Julie (July 2)
Mike Tyson Mysteries – Season 3 ” Ring of Fire”
Olympus – Season 1
Eloise
The Standups
American Pie
Ghost
It’s Complicated
Julieta*
Chelsea – Season 2 (weekly episodes)
Dawn of the Croods – Season 4
Luna Petunia – Season 2
July 7-13:
Castlevania – Season 1
Pixels
Shadowhunters: The Moral Instruments – Season 2 part b
Friends With Benefits
The Blues Brothers*
July 14-17:
Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile
Chasing Coral
Friends from College – Season 1
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
To The Bone
West Coast Customs – Season 4
Cowgirl’s Story
July 18-20:
Aditi Mittal: Things They Would Let Me
Ari Shaffir: Double Negative: Collection
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story*
Killer Women with Piers Morgan – Series 1
Bruce Almighty
The Talented Mr. Ripley*
July 21-31:
Last Chance U – Season 2
Ozark – Season 1
The Worst Witch – Season 1
Detour
Vincent N Roxxy
Joe Mande’s Award Winning Comedy Special
The Social Network*
Toni Erdmann
Braveheart
Arrival*
Daughters of Destiny
The Adventures of Puss in Boots – Season 5
The Incredible Jessica James*
After the Reality
And here are the titles that will be leaving Netflix as of July 2017:
The Home Depot Canada has a new FREE workshops available today! The Home Depot Canada today FREE workshops includes: Do-It-Herself Workshops – Painting Your Home’s Exterior: Prep and paint or stain. Participants will learn how to prep and paint exteriors, including windows and trim. How to paint or stain home exteriors as well.
The Home Depot Canada FREE workshops is valid today, Wednesday, June 21, 2017 – 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm.
To book your slot at a workshop, contact your local Home Depot location.
Shortly after the announcement that Amazon would be buying Whole Foods, the company made another, not quite as ground shaking, announcement regarding their business operations in Canada. On Tuesday, Premier Kathleen Wynne made an announcement with Amazon that they would be expanding their corporate offices into Toronto. The office space will accommodate for the hiring of 200 new employees, 90 percent of which will be highly skilled technical positions.
The requirement for highly skilled technical positions makes sense, especially when you look at what the objectives of this new office space will be. The focus areas of the Toronto office will be on Amazon Fulfillment Technologies, the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa and Amazon Web Services.
Coca-Cola Canada is helping our great nation celebrate the 150th anniversary in style and starting this week you’ll be able to see just how much the soda retailer cares about its unique history in the Great White North. Coca-Cola Canada has created a new iconic can, which will be sold in 222mL 6-packs and will feature the 150th logo against the backdrop of an old fashioned Coca-Cola bottle. At the top of the bottle, a silhouetted maple leaf will be proudly displayed and of course the colour scheme will be red and white, which just so happens to be both Canada and Coca-Cola’s colours.
In addition to the new Canada 150 can, Coca-Cola will also be releasing a commemorative book (starting today) that celebrates the company’s history in Canada for the past 120 years. You will be able to find this piece of memorabilia wherever books are sold and the book is going to be, aptly called, Canada’s Coca-Cola: Refreshing the Nation for 120 Years.
Coca-Cola is also releasing a new commercial to help promote the new 150 222mL cans that will feature music from none other than the great Canadian musician Bryan Adams. The ad has two Canadians going from one side of the country to the other in search of a runaway Coca-Cola.
It’s back again for another year, except this year’s iteration of the IKEA Canada Play Cafe will be emphasizing the ‘play’ portion of their name as it features interactive games that will help in discounting your food purchases from the cafe. The pop up shop has opened in Toronto on Queen Street West, at 336 Queen St., and it will be open from June 16th to June 26th. The hours of availability will be:
Mon to Sat: 11-8pm
Sun: 10-6pm
The cafe is 8,000 square feet and takes up an entire two floors of interactive fun. The cafe is broken into three different themes: shopping, eating, and playing (of course). In the play room, you can enjoy a game that is similar to what most people would call DDR (Dance, Dance Revolution) and collect points to discount your purchases at the cafe. At the cafe, you can buy familiar IKEA staples, such as Swedish meatballs and waffles.
And if you head over to the shopping area, you won’t necessarily be able to make big purchases on things like bed and living room furniture, but you will be able to shop for over 50 different decor items and kitchen accessories.
Shockwaves were sent through the grocery industry on Friday when Amazon made the shocking announcement that they’d be purchasing the high-end grocery retailer Whole Foods for the “measly” price tag of $13.4 billion USD.
This is a major move for the e-commerce giant, as this merger will place Amazon in hundreds of neighbourhoods across the US and Canada, giving them a much needed edge in the brick-and-mortar retail game. Amazon has been struggling to get customers to switch to purchasing groceries online, something they have been offering for over a decade but have found that people prefer to buy their produce at physical locations.
This merger, however, will give them that much sought after edge as Whole Foods has over 460 locations in both the US, Canada and Britain.
This will also give Amazon a chance to freely advertise their Amazon Prime services (a $99/year membership fee) in Whole Foods locations, and possibly give members a chance to receive discounted groceries – similar to how Prime members can receive discounts at bookstores. Currently, 49 million Americans subscribe to the Amazon Prime services, which is estimated to make up about 44 percent of all households.
On the pop cultural side of things, the merger between Whole Foods and Amazon provided the Twitter-sphere with a ‘prime’ opportunity to make an easy joke.
Here are some of the reactions from those of us who won’t be making a $13.4 billion deal anytime soon:
Toys R Us Canada has FREE Family Events in June. The Toys R Us June Family Events include fun make & Takes, product demos, giveaways and more.
Visit your local Toys“R”Us store to take part in the exciting promotions and activities your kids will love. All events are offered In-store only. While quantities last. Giveaways and make and takes are limit to one per child. Events recommended for children ages 4 years and up.
Today, Saturday, June 17, 2017 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Cars 3 Pit Stop Play Day
Visit each pit stop to play with the hottest CARS 3 toys and pick-up your FREE Toys”R”Us exclusive Die-cast Collector Poster!
Also,
Toys R Us & Cineplex Canada has a great promotion available now and valid until Thursday, June 29, 2017, while supplies last. Receive a FREE Despicable Me 3 Cineplex Child Movie Voucher when you spend $30 or more (before taxes) on any Despicable Me 3 products.
Cineplex Canada has released their new schedule. The Cineplex Canada Family Favourites Movies include:
Today, Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 11am the film Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, Adventure, Fantasy, is the Family Favourites for $2.99 (2h 12m).
Here’s the upcoming movie every Saturday morning at 11am for Cineplex Family Favourites at $2.99 each:
June 2017:
Saturday, June 24, 2017: The Muppet Movie
July 2017:
Saturday, July 1 2017: Back to the Future
Saturday, July 8 2017: Ballerina
Saturday, July 15 2017: The Wild Life
Saturday, July 22 2017: A Monster Calls
Saturday, July 29 2017: Monster Trucks
August 2017:
Saturday, August 5, 2017: Pup Star
Saturday, August 12, 2017: Lego Batman
Saturday, August 19, 2017: Pup Star 2 Premiere
Saturday, August 26, 2017: Pup Star 2 Encore
Sebtember 2017:
Saturday September 2, 2017: Power Rangers
Saturday September 9, 2017: Smurfs: The Lost Village
Saturday September 16, 2017: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
On Tuesday, Premier Kathleen Wynne made an announcement with Amazon that they would be expanding their corporate offices into Toronto. The office space will accommodate for the hiring of 200 new employees, 90 percent of which will be highly skilled technical positions.
