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In 2015, major retailers such as The Warehouse, Noel Leeming and Harvey Norman offered Black Friday sales, [104] and by 2018 were joined by Farmers, JB Hi-Fi, Briscoes and Rebel Sport. Paymark, which processes around 75% of New Zealand's electronic transactions, recorded $219 million NZD (US$151 million) of transactions on Black Friday 2017, up ...
The chain's namesake product is a line of fried dough pastries, individually hand-stretched to resemble a beaver's tail. The chain began in Ottawa and now has franchises and licensees in six countries: Canada (Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia and Quebec), the United States, Japan, France, U.A.E., and Mexico.
Harvey Norman is the flagship brand of Harvey Norman Holdings. Harvey Norman is mainly a household goods retailer – with items being sold in their stores including major appliances, small appliances, information technology (such as computers, printers and mobile phones), furniture, bedding, hardware (bathrooms) and flooring among other things ...
In the 1960s, Toronto's Jarvis Street was a hub for the sex trade, with the surrounding area containing strip clubs such as Zanzibar Tavern and adult movie theatres. [1] [2] This led to the parking lot of the Harvey's franchise in that area to become a burgeoning sexual marketplace, giving this particular franchise its common nickname of Hooker Harvey's. [1]
View of Hillcrest Park on south-east corner of Bathurst and Davenport, Toronto. In 1922, the TTC purchased the Hillcrest Race Track to use its land for the new shop complex to replace smaller facilities inherited from the Toronto Railway Company. The TTC opened Hillcrest Complex on March 13, 1924, replacing the TRC's carshops, motor shops and ...
Eye Weekly was a free weekly newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] It was owned by Torstar, the parent company of the Toronto Star, and was published by their Star Media Group until its final issue on May 5, 2011. The following week, Torstar launched a successor publication, The Grid. [2]
Morley Safer, Toronto-born television reporter; Simi Sara; Joe Schlesinger, journalist and documentarian; Ken Shaw, newscaster; Trish Stratus, WWE wrestler and star of the TV show Armed and Famous; George Stroumboulopoulos, talk show host; David Suzuki; Diana Swain, newscaster
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; French: Office national du film du Canada, ONF) is a Canadian public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada , the NFB produces and distributes documentary films , animation , web documentaries , and alternative dramas.