Best Buy gives Canada unit free rein

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Best Buy Canada, which is led by president Kevin Layden, has opened two new consumer electronics stores in Edmonton. Best Buy Canada, which is owned by Bloomington, Minn.-based Best Buy Company Inc., acquired Future Shop, converting the retail outlets into Best Buy stores.

United States, Marketing procedures, Radio, Television, & Computer Stores, Radio, TV, Music, Electronics Stores, Marketing, Company marketing practices, Best Buy Company Inc., BBY, Consumer electronics stores

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McClelland & Stewart gives itself to U of T

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McClelland and Stewart has announced it will donate 75% of its publishing company's shares to the University of Toronto. McClelland and Stewart will sell its remaining shares to Random House of Canada Ltd.

Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, Book publishing, Book Publishers, Use of Funds, Publishing industry, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, McClelland and Stewart, Random House of Canada Ltd.

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$100-million gift to fight brain drain

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The University of Toronto receives a $100 million donation, from both government and private sources, for the development of increased biomedical research and the recruitment of new scientists.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research and Testing Services, Public affairs, Medical Research, Donations, Medical sciences, R.S. McLaughlin Foundation

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