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Vancouver police put up 19 bright yellow billboards around the city, with dramatic black lettering that reads: “Warning. Be cautious of strangers getting close or asking for help” as an attention-getter for the increasingly prevalent crime during which a thief requests help or offers to give cheap jewelry to an elderly person to distract them during the robbery of expensive jewelry or other valuables.
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“The statement on the billboard directly addresses how thieves target their victims, who are often seniors (one victim this year has been 94 years old) and are East Asian or South Asian,” said VPD spokeswoman Simi Heer in an email.
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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Despite a display of female firepower in economics around the world, the same effect has not been seen in the UK
Women are very poorly represented in university economics departments from undergraduates through to professorships, and that feeds through to a shortage at the top levels of policymaking
Among economics students from the UK, women represent 27 per cent of undergraduates, and that has gone backwards in the past two decades
The economy affects all of us, not just men, and so the study and practice of economics should reflect society in the round
Widening the pool beyond white, middle-class males might reduce the risk of groupthink that was so deadly in the financial crisis
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