Pandemic

In the garb of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the Shanghai lockdown to implement the most draconian of its surveillance and authoritarian systems, the kinds of which were only seen in far-off provinces like Xinjiang till now. Since April, the 25 million residents of…

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From an employer perspective, there is no better time to terminate than when the market is white hot and there are more jobs available than people to fill them. Photo by Steven Wilhelm/Postmedia With the addition of 18,000 net new jobs in April compared to March, the capital region has…

“If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,” said Bill Gates in a 2015 TED Talk, “it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.” At the time, West Africa was battling a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people, and…

The city of Paju in Gyeonggi Province, which sits close to the border with North Korea, on Wednesday resumed tours of the demilitarized zone after a more than two-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Third Tunnel and the Mt. Dora Observatory are open to 40 people per tour…

"I have never seen anything so uncertain as a CEO ever, where you couldn't have some predictability on what the next month would look like it was it was a real roller coaster ride." Regina International Airport CEO James Bogusz. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post Last year was a…

The recent pandemic grabbed humanity by its Achilles heel and shook civilization hard. The ensuing rapid technical adaptations to improve our odds were almost magical in both speed and design. While most of the souped-up food and retail technologies were elements of survival-on-the-fly, some of the new tech will likely…

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Shanghai Health Commission reported a total of 260 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases this morning, Wednesday, May 4. Of those, 151 were converted from asymptomatic cases, so are not counted as new, leaving a total of 109 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. A further 4,722 local asymptomatic cases were also reported.…

Lee Schulman by Lee Schulman, founder of Panacea Management Group (PMG) Consulting One of the biggest lessons the pandemic has brought to light for restaurant operators is the importance employees place on quality of life. Offering a positive work-life balance is crucial for operators looking to hire – and retain…