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Every Monday, Ricky Blanding drives his Ford Ranger pickup truck around Detroit along a carefully planned route. Blanding hops in and out of the truck, grabbing buckets of food scraps from porches and restaurants, piling those scraps into bins in the truck bed and driving them to a composting site. Blanding is the CEO of Scrap Soils, one of the many budding food waste collection services across the country helping to divert food from landfills and make composting more accessible. It’s especially important for those who can’t compost at home, who live in cities without municipal curbside pickup or who can’t get to a drop-off location. Composting leftover coffee grounds, eggshells, carrot tops and more reduces the amount of food that goes into dumps where it produces the potent greenhouse gas methane. It also ultimately helps create healthy soil for gardeners and urban farmers. Experts say companies like Scrap Soils are an important part of cleaning up the broader food ecosystem.

A fire in one of the units at  Kelowna’s Hearthstone Supportive Housing complex Monday morning prompted a significant emergency response and the evacuation of the 46-suite building. “On arrival, fire crews found fire and smoke from the second floor,” said Larry Watkinson, deputy fire chief with the Kelowna Fire Department. Watkinson said one person, who was inside the burning unit, had to be rescued. “The alarms were sounding and the person was just unresponsive at that point,” Watkinson said. According to Watkinson, the individual suffered smoke inhalation. The building, which is operated by the John Howard Society of Okanagan, sustained water and smoke damage. A number of residents have been temporarily displaced as a result. Story continues below advertisement

Entrepreneurs face a unique set of challenges, but they don’t have to navigate them alone. Pouya Zangeneh, senior vice president of Business Banking at Scotiabank and consumer finance expert Barry Choi, broke down the challenges self‑employed workers face and what they can do to stay ahead. Finance Friday: How businesses can balance borrowing and costs

The exit of the group's longest-serving modern chairman opens a succession question at one of the world's largest brokers Dominic Collins (pictured) is stepping down as executive chairman of Howden after more than a decade at the top of a group that grew from a $400 million intermediary into one of the world's largest insurance brokers during his tenure.

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The new Qsuite is impressive, and I particularly liked the two-person window suite and personal safe. Qatar Airways hoped to debut the next generation of its famous Qsuite business class last year — with lockable drawers and two-person window suites — but it still hasn't flown a single passenger. The Doha-based airline unveiled its reinvented Qsuite at the UK's Farnborough Airshow in 2024, promising a new level of luxury for its Boeing 777-9 jets by 2025. The 777-9 is the larger variant of the 777X. But Boeing's new widebody still isn't certified. The 777X is seven years behind its original schedule, while Boeing continues to grapple with safety, quality, production, and supply-chain problems. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said at a September Morgan Stanley conference that the 777-9 was still on track for 2027, but an engine issue discovered earlier this year could slightly push the timeline. "I don't see that as a major challenge for us, but we still got a lot in front of us on the flight test program," Ortberg said. "Not done until we're done. "Neither Boeing nor Qatar Airways responded to a request for comment from Business Insider.

People come to TikTok to watch their favorite creators, discover fresh ideas and connect with their communities. We've built a full-funnel platform that enables brands to show up in those moments. At Advertising Week New York 2026, we're unveiling agentic solutions across every stage of the customer journey and expanding creative potential both on-and-off the platform. The opportunity is significant: PF Global's TikTok's Economic Impact Report published last week found that economic activity on TikTok helped generate $81 billion in GDP for US businesses [1], with 54 million Americans purchasing a product after watching a TikTok video [2]. When content is culturally relevant, audiences connect, explore, and take action – turning attention into scalable business growth, increasingly powered by AI. That momentum is reflected in the latest findings from Kantar's Media Reactions 2026 report, which ranked TikTok as the #1 platform where marketers plan to increase ad spend in 2027 [3], with 84% of marketers placing advertising on TikTok [4]. "AI is transforming how advertiser content is created and scaled," says David Kaufman, Global Head of Monetization Product Partnerships at TikTok.

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Skip to main contentThe premier source of tire industry news, research, market trends and analysisGoodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has closed its remaining chemical plants in Pasadena, Texas, and Niagara Falls, N. Y. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sold its chemical business to an affiliate of Gemspring Capital Management LLC in October 2025 for $650 million. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has closed its remaining chemical plants in Pasadena, Texas, and Niagara Falls, N. Y. "Following the sale of the majority of its chemical business in 2025, the company has made the decision to fully exit this business to focus on its core products and services," a spokesperson from Goodyear told MTD.