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    Regional Economics in Canada

    There are major economic differences among Canada’s main geographic regions — Ontario, Quebec, the North, the West and Atlantic Canada — each are affected by its own history of economic development, industrial location, urbanization, land use and migration. This is the full-length entry about regional economics in Canada. For a plain-language summary, please see Regional Economics in Canada (Plain-Language Summary).

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    Regional Economics in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)

    A region is a place. Canada has many regions. Regions have different geographic qualities, natural resources, markets and populations. These differences affect the economy of a region. (See also Regionalism.) This article is a plain-language summary of Regional Economics in Canada. If you are interested in reading about this topic in more depth, please see our full-length entry, Regional Economics in Canada.

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    Retail Trade

    There are 2 broad categories of retail-trade organization: retail chains, which operate 4 or more stores in the same kind of business under the same ownership, and independent retailers operating 1 to 3 stores.

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    Rodeo Records Ltd.

    Rodeo Records Ltd. Parent company to several labels producing country and folk music and Melbourne, in the classical genre. It was founded in 1949 in Montreal by Don Johnson and George Taylor. Taylor (b 8 Sept 1911, d Peterborough, Ont, 12 Sept 1986). Taylor soon assumed sole control.

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  • Macleans

    Rogers Buys Vidéotron

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 21, 2000. Partner content is not updated. On Bay Street they call him the king of cable, but Ted Rogers' ambitions have always extended far beyond the television set. For years, the founder and chief executive officer of Rogers Communications Inc.

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  • Macleans

    Rogers Cable Apologizes

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 16, 1995. Partner content is not updated. It may well go down as one of the rockiest product launches in the history of Canadian television. On Jan. 1, cable companies across the country began offering their 7.5 million subscribers seven new Canadian-owned specialty channels.

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    Rogers Communications

    Rogers Communications Inc. is a diversified communications and media company that operates almost entirely in Canada. Founded in 1960 with a single FM radio station in Toronto, it is now the country’s largest provider of wireless services as well as a leading cable company and a major player in broadcasting and sports entertainment. Among its many brands are Citytv and the Toronto Blue Jays.

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    Roots Canada

    The press clippings are piled three inches high on a table in Michael Budman's Toronto office. The co-owner of Roots Canada Ltd. strides into the sunny room, stops to survey the pile, plucks out a picture that features Prince William wearing the red Roots Olympic hat.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 13, 1998

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    Roots Canada

    Roots Corporation (better known as Roots or Roots Canada) is a publicly traded retail clothing business. It was co-founded by fashion designers and businessmen Michael Budman and Don Green. The first Roots store opened in Toronto in 1973 and Roots, with its beaver logo and cottage feel, grew into a recognizable Canadian brand. In 2015, Budman and Green sold a majority stake to Searchlight Capital Partners, though the founders remain prominent shareholders. In October 2017, Roots made its initial public offering (IPO) in Canada, trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ROOT. In 2022, Roots reported a net income of $6.7 million.

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    Royal Bank Award for Canadian Achievement

    The Royal Bank Award for Canadian Achievement was designed to honour a Canadian citizen or person living in Canada "whose outstanding accomplishment makes an important contribution to human welfare and the common good.

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    Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

    Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) was founded in 1864. Today, it is the country’s largest chartered bank and financial institution. It has five divisions: Personal and Commercial Banking, consisting of banking operations around the world; RBC Wealth Management, consisting of investment products and services for retail investors; RBC Capital Markets for international investment banking services; RBC Insurance for individual and group clients; and Investor and Treasury Services, providing custody services and fund administration for international clients. Royal Bank is a public company that trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange and SIX Swiss Exchange under the symbol RY. In 2023, RBC registered $56.13 billion in revenue and $14.9 billion in profit and held $2.0 trillion in assets. Royal Bank employs more than 94,000 people, who serve over 17 million customers in 29 counties.

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    Royal Canadian Mint

    The Royal Canadian Mint is a Crown corporation since 1 April 1969. From 1858 to 1907 Canadian coins were struck at the Royal Mint in London and the Heaton Mint of Birmingham, both in England. On 2 January 1908, the Ottawa Branch of Britain's Royal Mint officially opened.

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    Royal Commission on Banking and Finance

    Banking and Finance, Royal Commission onBanking and Finance, Royal Commission on (Porter Commission), established 1961 (after the governor of the Bank of Canada, James COYNE, had publicly disagreed with the federal government's economic policies), to examine and to make recommendations for the improvement of "the structure and methods of operations of the Canadian financial system, including the banking and monetary system and the institutions and processes involved in the flow of funds through the capital...

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    Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects

    The idea for this royal commission was based on a draft article by Walter GORDON in 1955 questioning the validity of a number of the government's economic policies, particularly the question of selling control of Canada's natural resources and business enterprises to foreigners.

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    Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration

    The Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration (Bryce Commission) was appointed in April 1975 under R.B. BRYCE, and reported 1978.

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