World News – CA – Purolator Launches Mobile Pickup Trucks Ahead of the Holiday Wave

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As more Canadians turn to the internet for their holiday shopping needs, Purolator is adding new drop-off points and more mobile pickup stops to meet growing demand

The shipping service provider, majority owned by Canada Post, said it plans to process 46 million packages during the holiday season, a 20% increase from the same time per year latest This comes after a summer spell that featured similar volumes to Purolator during shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday.

« We called this year the year of the super peak, because in terms of year-over-year growth, we saw increases of 40-50% in volume peaks », said John, CEO of Purolator Ferguson said in an interview

To meet growing demand expected between Nov 1 and Dec 24, Purolator is increasing the number of access points for drop-off and pick-up of shipments by 30% to 1,650 This includes 135 new retail store locations Michaels and 30 Quick-Stop Mobile Trucks Mobile trucks will be deployed in dense urban areas – for example, parked outside a cluster of condos in downtown Toronto – to facilitate consumer access and alleviate the burden. corporate network burden

“On the e-commerce front, we’ve seen a big increase and we believe the volume levels are here to stay,” Ferguson said, adding that the company made sure to balance the volume that it takes with its logistical capacity

« We actually ended up with a lot of demand and volume, to the point that we have to be careful what we even support »

Ferguson says COVID-19 has accelerated the company’s digital and mobility initiatives Last month, Purolator unveiled several projects aimed at helping address last mile delivery challenges while improving its environmental impact L company is currently testing new fully electric low-speed vehicles in Toronto and has expanded its fleet of electric cargo bikes in Montreal

While Canadians expect to spend less during the 2020 holiday season, in large part due to concerns about the country’s economic outlook and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, many plan to use online sources for holiday shopping

According to Deloitte’s Holiday Retail Outlook 2020, online shopping will account for 44% of vacation budgets in Canada, up from 36% last year The survey also found that 47% of consumers have been shopping more online since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

Canada Post urged Canadians to shop early this holiday season to avoid late arrival of freebies caused by pandemic-induced shift to online shopping Postal service is stepping up operations to deal with an expected increase in package volumes by adding more than 4,000 seasonal employees, more than 1,000 vehicles and additional equipment

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VIENNA – Vienna ambulance service says there were deaths in attack in Austrian capital on Monday evening
The Austrian news agency quoted ambulance service spokesman Daniel Melcher as saying there were several dead and injured, although he has not yet been able to provide a figure.
This is a last minute update AP’s previous story follows below
Austria’s News Agency reported on Monday that the country’s top security official said several people were injured in an attack in the capital Vienna and that there could be deaths
The APA quoted Karl Nehammer as saying authorities believe there were several attackers involved and this was still ongoing He previously quoted Nehammer’s office as saying one assailant was killed and another may be on the run
Viennese police urged people to avoid all open spaces and public transport in the city Police said trams and buses do not stop and urged social media users not to post videos of the ongoing police operation, so as not to endanger the officers
« There are several injured », tweeted the police « We are there with all available forces Please avoid all public places in the city »
Oskar Deutsch, the head of the Jewish community in Vienna, said the shooting took place on the street where the city’s main synagogue is located, but it was not clear whether the place of worship was targeted
The synagogue was already closed at the time of the shooting at around 8 pm (1900 GMT), Deutsch tweeted
Rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister told The Associated Press he saw at least one person shooting people sitting outside bars in the street under his window
“They were firing at least 100 bullets right outside our building,” said Hofmeister.
“All of these bars have tables outside Tonight is the last night before the lockout,” he added. “From midnight all bars and restaurants will be closed in Austria for the next month and a lot of people probably wanted to take advantage of this evening to be able to go out »

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(Bloomberg) – President Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s campaigns spent a total of $ 192 million on Facebook ads in the first 10 months of 2020, more than a quarter of which was in October alone, according to the Facebook Inc dataEvery party’s presidential campaigns more than doubled their social media ad spend compared to presidential contenders in the 2016 race, when pundits agreed Trump outsmarted Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton onlineBiden spent a little more on Facebook than Trump this year, at $ 99 8 million compared to $ 92 5 million, although the president has invested more in Alphabet Inc Google, where the two campaigns have spent a combined $ 215 5 million ads on Google since May 2018. spending comes largely from YouTube, including a flurry of Trump ads to the video site’s homepage this week. But even as contestants invest tens of millions of dollars in advertising on the platforms, there is a widespread dissatisfaction both with the rules companies set around the election and the way they enforced themA case in point is a policy Facebook announced in September to ban new political ads the week before the election.The ban did not in fact prevent campaigns from running ads during this time, only from introducing new ads that could introduce deceptive messages in the final days of the campaign. The logic of this decision was lost for Gautam Hans, professor at Vanderbilt Law School, focused on the First Amendment « If we are concerned about political ads and their effect on the vote, the vote is well underway », he said. he said, noting the wave of early votes that started before the moratorium went into effectThere were also problems running Facebook blocked thousands of ads, many of which were from the Biden campaign, even though they were posted before the deadline.The campaign said the disruption, which Facebook attributed to a technical problem, had probably cost them over $ 500,000 in donations The company said it had not been able to resolve issues with some ads and was unlikely to be able to do so during the blackout period. Rob Flaherty, chief digital officer of Biden, said the incident made it clear that Facebook was not at all prepared to handle this election despite four years to prepare“The Trump campaign, for its part, tried to circumvent the policy by making a limited series of new ads the day before the ban took effect. These ads included words such as « Vote today! » And « Election day is today », presumably in an attempt to promote them more strongly when these statements made sense.Facebook has blocked the ads, citing a policy that bans paid posts that mislead people about the electoral process But it allowed other ads claiming record economic growth in US days before statistics were released Samantha Zager, door Speaking of Trump’s campaign, accused Facebook of making rules and applying them selectively because the company « was working against President Trump » Daniel Kreiss, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who follows political communication, said the platforms failed to create predictable safeguards for political actors « We are still seeing far too many patchy enforcement policies and far too many changes in those policies months or weeks after a presidential election, » he said, adding that Facebook’s performance had been particularly poor. « It never ceases to amaze me that a company with so many billions in market capitalizations cannot understand this » Facebook, Google and Twitter Inc. all found themselves at the center of a political storm for their handling of the election. 2016 The following year, federal lawmakers made a high-profile effort to create new rules for online political advertising, but that failed, leaving the platforms to develop safeguards themselves.The three companies created databases where people could track political spending and started developing other policies. Last October, Twitter announced that it would completely ban Facebook and Google political ads, also considered bans. at least for the last days or weeks before an election Sridhar Ramaswamy, a Google executive who ran its advertising operations until 2018, said he had advocated internally for the total abandonment of political adsGoogle also considered a pre-election moratorium on political ads on the YouTube homepage, some of the most expensive real estate on the Internet Instead, it sold the space to the Trump campaign, Bloomberg reported Former YouTube lawyer Shirin Raza says Trump’s ads have been particularly damaging to the democratic process and said the company itself wears part of it « They say they care about electoral integrity They say they care about Covid disinformation But they keep raising someone who violates those two principles, » she said. « It doesn’t does he not make an accomplice?  » A Google spokesperson said she welcomes ads from all political advertisers as long as they follow company rules It has limited targeting on election ads, preventing campaigns from mixing public voter records with information such as searches, web browsing and YouTube viewing histories Facebook has not limited targeting and has also infuriated Democrats with its policy of refusing to verify political ads (Republicans subsequently attacked the company whenever it affixed labels to deceptive messages from President Trump) Both companies said they would stop allow political ads in the days following the election, with the aim of curbing attempts to confuse people about the outcome of the vote Anyone who is skeptical of the way social media companies handle political ads did not support targeting restrictions or outright bans People who run downvoting campaigns have expressed concern that targeting restrictions do not prevent them from buying ads tailored to their voters Some campaigns felt that targeting restrictions were preventing them from accessing the type of granular messaging on Facebook and Google that worked so well in 2016 « It changed the purchase to look more like television, » said Reid Vineis, vice president of Majority Strategies, a political advertising companySome people who study political discourse also say that a political advertising ban would undermine the electoral process “I think political advertising is important,” said UNC’s Kreiss “Most ads are mobilizing – how can you get people to vote?  » (Corrects sixth paragraph to indicate that many, not most, of the blocked ads were from Biden’s campaign) For more posts like this, please visit us at bloomberg Subscribe now to stay ahead with source most trusted business news © 2020 Bloomberg LP

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