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Miranda Parker, head distiller at Compass Distillers, with bottles of Hell Isle rum, something of a departure for the company and which is already selling well. - BILL SPURR / THE CHRONICLE HERALD

New Compass rum enters the market smoothly

Compass Distiller’s first batch of its new Hell Isle rum went out the door so quickly that head distiller Miranda Parker had to take a break from bottling the second batch to talk about it. “This product is launching directly through the NSLC, which ...

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A multimillion-dollar question: Should the lobster carapace size be increased in southwestern Nova Scotia?

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Lobster fishing boats make their way into the Falls Point Wharf in Woods Harbour after a day on the fishing grounds. Kathy Johnson

Cape Breton company moving offshore wind parts internationally from Sydney

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This large ship anchored in the Sydney Harbour this week is called the Sea Installer. Owned by Belgium company DEME, the Sea Installer is specially designed to carry and help install offshore wind turbine components. It often transports equipment such as windmill blades and monopile seabed anchors between the Atlantic Canada Bulk Terminal in Sydney and destinations in Europe and the United States. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST

THE WRAP: $100 million in soda, streamlined shellfish, and only the poor change eating habits

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MEET THE MAKERS - Focusing on crafts: Crocheting, sewing and sign making also part of creative process for photographer

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Central banks of Turkey, Brazil sign cooperation deal

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Police investigate at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church after a knife attack took place during a service the night before, in Wakeley in Sydney, Australia, April 16, 2024.

X vows to 'robustly challenge' Australia order to remove stabbing posts

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Social media platform X said on Saturday it would challenge in court an order from an Australian regulator demanding the company remove some posts related to the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney. Police charged a boy, 16, with a ...

The elements of Gallium and Germanium are seen on a periodic table, in this illustration picture taken on July 6, 2023.

China's March germanium, gallium exports yet to recover year-ago level

Reuters |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's exports of gallium and germanium products in March declined from year-ago levels, customs data showed on Saturday, underlining the impact of export controls in place since last August. China announced in early July ...

Model Y cars are pictured during the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul/Pool via

Tesla cuts US prices of Models Y, X, S by $2,000

Nilutpal Timsina |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

By Nilutpal Timsina (Reuters) - Tesla cut the U.S. prices of its Model Y, Model X and Model S vehicles by $2,000 each on Friday, days after the first-quarter deliveries of the world's most valuable automaker missed market expectations. Elon ...

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk gestures, as he attends political festival Atreju organised by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) right-wing party, in Rome, Italy, December 16, 2023.

Tesla's Elon Musk postpones India trip, aims to visit this year

Aditi Shah, Aditya Kalra |Updated 5 minutes ago |2 min read

(Corrects paragraph 3 to Reuters, not reporters) By Aditi Shah, Aditya Kalra and Sarita Chaganti Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Elon Musk postponed a planned trip to India where he was to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, citing obligations at his ...

A view of the Volkswagen plant where workers are voting on whether to join the United Auto Workers union (UAW), in Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S., April 18, 2024

UAW wins big in historic union vote at Volkswagen Tennessee factory

Nora Eckert |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

By Nora Eckert CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) -Workers at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers, in a seismic victory for the union as it drives beyond its Detroit base into the U.S. South and West. A majority of ...

Skydance expects to more than double its revenue in coming years, WSJ reports

Reuters |Updated 8 hours ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Skydance Media, which is in exclusive merger talks with Paramount Global, expects to more than double its revenue and triple its adjusted earnings in the coming years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Skydance expects to ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks during a press conference after attending the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 29, 2024.

BOJ's Ueda says 'very likely' to hike rates if inflation keeps rising

Reuters |Updated 7 hours ago |2 min read

By Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the central bank "very likely" will raise interest rates if underlying inflation continues to go up, and begin reducing its huge bond buying at some point in the ...

Brazil's Embraer delivers 25 jets in Q1; backlog hits 7-year high

Reuters |Updated 10 hours ago |1 min read

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Friday it delivered 25 aircraft - seven commercial planes and 18 executive jets - in the first quarter of 2024, a 67% increase on a yearly basis. Embraer, the world's third-largest ...

People are reflected on a Honda Motor car outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan February 2, 2017. Picture taken February 2, 2017.

Honda to invest $808 million in Brazil by 2030

Reuters |Updated 8 hours ago |1 min read

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Japanese automaker Honda will invest 4.2 billion reais ($807.74 million) in its Itirapina plant in Brazil by 2030, an executive said on Friday, adding the company aims to develop a hybrid-flex vehicle in the South American ...

Nike to lay off 740 employees at Oregon headquarters

Reuters |Updated 10 hours ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Nike will lay off about 740 employees at its world headquarters in Oregon, a letter showed on Friday, as the top sportswear maker looks to rein in costs after warning of a revenue dip in the first half of fiscal 2025. The "second ...