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Not that I really care, but since there are people here that looooove the economy stuff so much... Who knew? Toronto the Boring is now North America's top financial centre, next to New York Canada's biggest city is adding bankers, portfolio managers and other finance types faster than any...

Handling Covid so well must have really helped. China’s Economy Continues Booming After Record First Quarter “The services sector is catching up at a faster pace, driven by the transport and logistics, IT, and commercial services industries." China’s stock market moved higher in April, with...

Gee, maybe protectionist tariffs from an authoritarian orange man were a bad idea? 🤔 Increasing desperation as US capitalist system declines Notwithstanding endlessly glib political speeches about bright futures, US capitalism has reached and passed its peak. Like that of the British Empire...

They're very much like Russia in that they are a Socialist government that influences private enterprise. It's a form of State Capitalism. China basically became a market economy by the end of the 90s before it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. In the new millennium, the Chinese...

Does this even matter anymore? Canadian dollar tops 82 cents for 1st time since 2017 The Canadian dollar hit its highest level in almost four years on Thursday, buoyed by high commodity prices The loonie was changing hands at 82.08 cents US early in the afternoon, its highest level since...

OH NO: Trump's New "Social Media Platform" is Just a Blog - YouTube Donald Trump’s ‘social media platform’ has launched and it’s just a blog After months of promising his own social media network for banned posters, former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a new section of his...

Considering they were already displaced from Ontario, I don't see what the big deal is. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Canadas-Green-Shift-Could-Displace-Three-Quarters-Of-Oil-Workers.html

Walter misses GWB. Polling found supporters of the GOP outnumbered those who said they back Trump more than the party. https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-support-gop-more-than-trump-poll-2021-4

Freedumb. In what version of cloud cuckoo land is a picture of a politician getting a vaccine amid a devastating virus outbreak considered brave? That would be Alberta, apparently, where the Premier is facing a caucus revolt and a serious backlash within his United Conservative Party ranks –...

The $400 Billion Food Problem Not Enough Of Us Are Talking About Professor Emily Broad Leib reads the statistics about the 1 billion people going hungry every year—and 1.3 billion tons of food going unused—and shakes her head. https://www.delish.com/food/a36135498/food-waste-in-america/

Who coulda possibly seen this one coming? A: No one on this forum lol Debt bad unless orange man debt. An analysis by the International Monetary Fund found, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ended up having no visible effect at all on business investment, which rose no more than you would have...

Oh oh, I know this one! By being a dumb fuck Conservative. :D How the premier of Ontario made himself irrelevant In the current moment, there’s damn little Ford can do. All that can be done is being done by others. Ford, having delayed so long on taking any number of actions, now finds...

Now this is making America great again! 😲 US vows to cut its emissions at least 50% by 2030 ahead of climate summit The US has vowed to cut its planet-heating emissions by at least half by the end of the decade, in a ramping up of ambition aimed at rallying other countries to do more to...

Oh Boris.. UK to speed up target to cut carbon emissions Radical new climate change commitments will set the UK on course to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, the UK government has announced. Hitting the targets would require more electric cars, low-carbon heating, renewable electricity...

Cause political points scored for no one. Edit: What completely unassociated thread are you going to move this one to Boom Boom? Can't handle politics in the politics forum.. Sad.. So much for free speech in here huh.. Alberta rejects national childcare program Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson...

Bush calls on Congress to tone down 'harsh rhetoric' about immigration Former President George W. Bush on Sunday called on Congress to tone down the "harsh rhetoric" on immigration, adding that he hopes that doing so will "set a tone that is more respectful" of immigrants and lead to more...

Broken clock is right twice a day, etc... Alberta Premier Jason Kenney denounces ‘unhinged’ anti-lockdown protesters Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is condemning recent protests against public-health measures, dismissing the demonstrators as “unhinged” conspiracy theorists who crossed a line by...

It's the truly Canadian thing to do. Federal government to send health-care workers, rapid COVID-19 tests to Ontario MONTREAL -- The federal government announced it was mobilizing its own resources and co-ordinating with lesser-hit provinces to send health-care workers and other support to...

Anglo huh 🤔 New conservative group in the U.S. aims to save 'Anglo-Saxon' traditions The group was linked to Greene and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. Over GOP objections, the House voted to remove Greene from her committee assignments early this year for her recycling of violent, conspiratorial...

10% positivity rate. That's higher than Ontario's 🤔 Alberta's test positivity rate has spiked in the past month alongside other leading COVID-19 indicators, now sitting just shy of 10 per cent. The province completed 16,876 COVID-19 tests Thursday. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5991301