The LSM sector has grown 7.45% in the first eight-month of current fiscal year amid third wave of Covid, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Malls and big box stores in Toronto rammed during first weekend of new lockdown
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This past weekend marked the first days of Ontario s new provincewide shutdown, and establishments that were forced to close their doors after mere weeks of reopening or who haven t gotten to open at all in months are likely (and understandably) seething over how packed the businesses that remain open have been.
Photos and videos taken at various major retailers in the past few days are leading many to wonder why a small struggling restaurant can t open its socially distanced outdoor patio, but North York IKEA and Yorkdale Mall can host people crowding in lineups outside and packed shoulder to shoulder indoors.
Nurse moves to a new field - one with tractors
16 Mar, 2021 01:00 AM
3 minutes to read
Former theatre nurse Brooke Stevenson is learning to drive tractors and make winter feed. Photo / Supplied
Former theatre nurse Brooke Stevenson is learning to drive tractors and make winter feed. Photo / Supplied
Otago Daily Times
By: John Lewis
Brooke Stevenson has gone from tending nice neat rows of stitches to tedding nice neat rows of silage.
The 28-year-old former theatre nurse has stepped away from the medical profession to pursue a farming career - part of which means learning to drive tractors and making winter feed.
Fashion influencer on surviving Covid – and being trolled for it
11 minutes to read
By: Anna Murphy
She s a Vietnamese heiress and style influencer who was a regular on the front rows of every catwalk show, until in February last year she tested positive for coronavirus and became fashion s patient zero. Nga Nguyen tells Anna Murphy how it felt to go from Gucci girl to social media pariah.
Remember last February, when Covid seemed to be happening somewhere else – to be someone else s problem? I was travelling for the biannual fashion shows at the time and the first cracks began to appear towards the end of Milan. The week had opened with one of the season s hottest tickets, the Gucci show. Sitting on the second row was a 27-year-old Gucci fan by the name of Nga Nguyen, the daughter of a Vietnamese property magnate, and her sister. Not that anyone cared at the time.
I m new to this: Laurel Stowell rows on the Whanganui River
15 Jan, 2020 04:00 PM
6 minutes to read
This is what it s all about. I m seated between Lis Nielsen (left) and Jennie Evans. Photo / Lewis Gardner
This is what it s all about. I m seated between Lis Nielsen (left) and Jennie Evans. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Over the summer Chronicle reporters have been trying their hand at something new, under the supervision of experts.
Today, Laurel Stowell tries rowing on the Whanganui River. I like the cold, muddy smell of the