Toronto Star

Five business events to watch this week

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The future, revealed:

Economic Developmen­t Minister Navdeep Bains will announce a “major investment” in 5G technology on Monday.

Latest trade figures:

Statistics Canada releases the wholesale trade figures for January on Monday. Wholesale sales numbers for the previous month missed economists expectatio­ns of 0.4 per cent growth, instead falling 0.5 per cent in December, the first decrease in three months.

Another one rides the bus:

Transit bus manufactur­er New Flyer Industries releases fourth-quarter and year-end results on Wednesday.

Rise of the superfoods:

AGT Food and Ingredient­s discusses fourth-quarter and year-end results on Wednesday. The company, is a supporter of Protein Industries Canada, one of five superclust­ers chosen by Ottawa to receive money from a $950-million fund aimed at spurring economic opportunit­y in high-value investment­s.

Whose streets?

Sidewalk Toronto will hold its first public roundtable meeting on Tuesday. The subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet plans to build an experiment­al mixed-use “digital neighbourh­ood” on Toronto’s waterfront using data analysis, sensors, automated vehicles and heated bike lanes.

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