Month: October 2020

The government of Ukraine is expected to sign on Friday a contentious economic and trade agreement with the European Union, the threat of which had previously polarized the nation and sparked months of violence and upheaval. Newly elected President Petro Poroshenko is due to sign the document at a ceremony in Brussels, the Associated Press reported…

Click:全国楼凤论坛 CEO pay is massively outpacing that of regular workers, a new study shows. Released Thursday from the Economic Policy Institute, the analysis looks at CEO compensation at the top 350 publicly traded firms and reveals a staggering pay disparity. From 1978 to 2013, CEO compensation increased 937 percent. Yet compensation for a typical worker…

Political tensions remained high in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Friday as opposition leaders traded threats with the ruling parties amid ongoing street protests in the heart of the city. Opposition leader Imran Khan on Thursday said he would no longer compromise with the Pakistani government and vowed to continue protests and a sit-in…

As the British Columbia provincial election enters its final stretch, the B.C. Liberal Party is scrambling after a Zoom “roast” video leaked this weekend. The recording, featuring a party candidate engaging in sexist comments, had attendees that included the party leader and other Liberal candidates standing by and laughing along. B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson…

Click:gold loan near me Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Tuesday that Conservatives are playing politics by pushing for a special anti-corruption committee to examine the WE Charity controversy while his government focuses on helping Canadians through the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. At a press conference in Ottawa, alongside Chief Public Health Officer Dr.…

MONTREAL — Air Canada is still looking to take Transat AT under its wing despite the COVID-19 pandemic that has rocked the airline industry, but it will pay far less than originally expected. The two companies announced Saturday they’d agreed on revised terms that would see Air Canada pay $5 a share for the parent…

A dispute between RCMP management and its members this weekend over whether officers should be allowed to wear the controversial “thin blue line” symbol points to growing tension within Canada’s largest police force, experts say.  Late last week, the RCMP directed its members to stop displaying the “subdued” black and white Canadian flag with a…

Click:裝潢 New reporting by the Washington Post based on materials leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals an unprecedented view of how the private information of millions of “ordinary people” are caught up in the spy agency’s massive surveillance dragnet. Though the files show how the targeting of one individual may have ultimately led to…

Australia on Thursday scrapped its carbon tax, a move denounced by critics as a monumental step backwards on climate action that amounts to “inter-generational theft.” After lengthy debate, the Senate voted Thursday 39-32 to repeal it following its passage in the House of Representatives earlier this week. The charge of roughly 25 Australian dollars per…

The findings of an internal investigation at the Central Intelligence Agency made available to the public on Thursday show that CIA agents did, in fact, spy on the Senate Intelligence Committee panel set up to investigate post-9/11 government torture under the Bush administration. Lawmakers were briefed on the report by the CIA Inspector General’s Office…