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How upscale department stores are reinvigorating themselves

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On a recent Sunday, when stores in Paris are usually closed, Le Bon Marché was not only open and jammed with Christmas shoppers, it was teeming with young children riding a merry-go-round and taking in a puppet show.Partly, this jour exceptionnel was a family-friendly culmination to celebrations of the department store’s 160th anniversary. Earlier this fall, there were also special exhibits (including windows designed by star graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi) and events (for example, a film featuring Catherine Deneuve strolling the department store’s Left Bank neighbourhood).

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Water rates are under review

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Strathcona County council endorsed a recommendation at its Oct. 23 meeting that administration analyze different classified pricing objectives for water rate design in the municipality, as part of a cost of service study.

The pricing objectives classified financial sufficiency, equity and rate stability as very important; revenue stability, conservation and affordability as important; and new customer contributions, customer impacts, simple to understand, economic development and ease of implementation as less important.

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