Amazon Canada

• Quebec woman wins home makeover, pays prize forward to people living with HIV/AIDS

  Jolene Donatelli works for Amazon in the Montreal region and thought her prize for being a hometown hero was better spent on someone's life who could be truly impacted by it.

  Canada

  Dec 16, 2021
  
• Amazon Web Services says it has resolved issues linked to widespread outage

  Amazon Web Services provides servers, storage, email, and a number of other services to these platforms -- effectively keeping large parts of the internet running.

  Canada

  Dec 7, 2021
  
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• Visa vs. Amazon: Dispute over payment option shows retailers gaining upper hand

  While Amazon may yet back down on the U.K. front, the dispute is a bad sign for the credit card industry, according to analysts.

  World

  Nov 22, 2021
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• Amazon opening 2nd Canadian cloud computing server hub in Calgary region

  The company's cloud division says the new hub will be based in the Calgary region to provide better service to Western Canada.

  Economy

  Nov 8, 2021
• Amazon cancels plans for Oakville warehouse, goes to Mississauga instead

  Amazon notified Oakville councillors that they will not be using an empty warehouse after revealing they opened a Mississauga facility last week instead.

  Politics

  Oct 25, 2021
• Amazon Canada set to hire 15,000 workers, increase hourly starting wage to $21.65

  Amazon also announced it will increase the starting wage for its front-line, hourly employees in Canada 27 per cent to $21.65 an hour from $17 an hour.

  Economy

  Sep 13, 2021
• Amazon to open new warehouse in Alberta that will use robotics to pick, pack, ship small items

  The company says the Acheson warehouse in Parkland County, Alta., will create more than 1,000 full- and part-time jobs.

  Economy

  Jun 28, 2021
• Edmonton Krazy Binz store draws hundreds of bargain shoppers: ‘It was exciting’

  Krazy Binz Liquidation, a new discount store that has attracted hundreds of customers each day in Calgary and Red Deer, has opened a location in Edmonton.

  Consumer

  Jun 3, 2021
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• Amazon, Maple Leaf Foods, Maple Lodge Farms in Peel Region to hold COVID-19 vaccine clinics

  The Region of Peel says the three clinics for workers and the hot-spot communities they are located in will be part of a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership.

  Health

  Apr 22, 2021
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• Peel Region’s top doctor declined 5,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for Amazon worker outbreak

  Peel Public Health while it was a 'difficult' decision to not accept the COVID-19 vaccine doses, only seniors and health-care workers were eligible to be vaccinated in March.

  Health

  Apr 8, 2021