With global supply chains looking fragile during the COVID-19 pandemic, Quebec is seeking ways to make its economy more self-sufficient.Quebec’s unemployment rate went from 4.5 per cent in February to 8.1 per cent in March. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)This story is part of The COVID Economy, a CBC News series looking at how the uncertainty…
by David King and Jane LichtensteinSeptember 5, 2021 This story was first published in The Conversation & Daily Maverick The challenge of surviving the next 50 years is now Stabilize the Planet and is seen as a planet-wide existential crisis; we need to work together urgently, just to secure a short-term future for human civilization….
The logo of Lilly is seen on a wall of the Lilly France company unit, part of the Eli Lilly and Co drugmaker group, in Fegersheim near Strasbourg, France, February 1, 2018. Picture taken February 1, 2018. VINCENT KESSLER/Reuters Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat COVID-19 authorized for use…
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By RICHARD PITHOUSE At a public discussion on the land question in Johannesburg on Friday, February 27, Dikgang Moseneke, the Deputy Chief Judge of the Constitutional Court, began his remarks with a well-known quote from Frantz Fanon: For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land:…
Widespread testing for coronavirus is among the key pillars of the Government’s plan to slow the spread of the pandemic in Ireland. With a backlog of 40,000 people awaiting a test, to succeed, the State’s success hinges on a plan to ramp up the testing capacity to 15,000 a day in the coming weeks –…
In just 44 days since South Africa confirmed its first Covid-19 case, 108 021 people have been tested for the virus, and around 900 000 have been screened by health workers. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, speaking during a virtual press briefing late on Saturday night, said he was satisfied for now that the number of…
These normally privacy-forward sources are saying this in response to the pandemic, obviously. But it’s also because companies that track, target, identify and surveil individuals are pitching their technologies to ID and trace the infected — in shady backroom discussions with the White House.The pandemic has us all in vulnerable positions, and some tech companies…
LIVE Last updated March 23, 2020 12:09PM AEDT Jacinda Ardern has announced strict new measures that will see schools, universities and non-essential businesses closed across New Zealand. The New Zealand prime minister has raised the country’s alert status to level 3, with a level 4 upgrade to fol Meanwhile, healthcare systems in some of Europe’s…
CLOSE Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa speaks to the media at the NFL combine on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Indianapolis. WochitINDIANAPOLIS — He was humble and modest and charming, and when Tua Tagovailoa finished his 21-minute media session at the NFL combine Tuesday, he walked off the dais and behind a curtained hallway with only the…
