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When travel resumes, politics is âabsolutelyâ likely to affect where people want to go and where theyâll feel welcome
Even before Americaâs great rupture, there was evidence that travelers preferred to avoid visiting places whose residents didnât share their politics.
By Jon Marcus Globe Correspondent,Updated January 28, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
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Even before Americaâs great rupture, there was evidence that travelers preferred to avoid visiting places whose residents didnât share their politics.Siberian Art/stock.adobe.com
The man at the bar in Winston-Salem, N.C., looked up from his reading to ask the newcomer where he was from.
The Globe and Mail Deanne Gage Published January 22, 2021
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While women have made strides in increasing their representation on company boards of directors in Canada in recent years, it’s a different story for people of colour, notably Blacks.
According to a report the Diversity Insitute at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management published in August, 2020, Black executives are “deeply underrepresented” on boards and vastly outnumbered by other racialized groups.
Although there are no statistics on the number of financial advisors who serve on boards, the representation among Black advisors is minimal, says Michael Collymore, a certified financial planner (CFP) at IPC Investment Corp. in Ajax, Ont.
US targets Putin’s pipelines from Baltic Sea to Balkans
Russian President Vladimir Putin has frequently been accused of using energy supplies as a geopolitical weapon. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS via REUTERS)
The US has begun 2021 by delivering a series of sanctions blows that leave the future of Vladimir Putin’s USD 11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline project in grave doubt. The latest American measures appear to have succeeded in forcing insurance, certification, and engineering firms to distance themselves from the geopolitically sensitive energy infrastructure project.
Moscow remains publicly defiant and bullish over the prospects of completing the unfinished pipeline, but it seems that Russia’s gas producer Gazprom is under no such illusions. A January 19 Reuters report claims Gazprom acknowledged in a recent Eurobond prospectus that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project may be suspended or scrapped amid political pressure.
The Globe and Mail Helen Burnett-Nichols Published January 14, 2021
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Much like the sudden, necessary shift to provide financial advice virtually, the pandemic has required post-secondary institutions that educate prospective financial planners to move online this academic year.
But rather than simply making existing content available online, they have introduced digital innovation into their courses, which has allowed students to continue working toward obtaining their financial planning designations and take advantage of educational and networking opportunities not previously available.
Chris Gresat, program head, finance and financial planning, at the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s School of Business and Media in Vancouver, says that students and faculty were left shell-shocked at the start of the pandemic. But after a brief period during which Mr. Gresat and his department took to regroup, they saw an opportunity to enha
A number of Canadian politicians have been caught flouting public health advice by going on vacations over the holidays, and Air Canada is now facing scrutiny for trying to convince regular Canadians to do the same.