Pandemic

Open this photo in gallery:People walk past real estate properties in Toronto on July 12.Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail Investors have become more prevalent in Canada’s housing market, accounting for 30 per cent of all residential real estate purchases in the first part of this year, according to new data.…

“Right now, at the Kellogg Company, our infrastructure is being maintained. We're going from maintaining to modernizing, and we can all think about things in our lives where if you're maintaining versus investing, maintaining versus modernizing, you end up with a very different outcome. So, we'll be modernizing. So, what…

Growing up as a young, vibrant, intellectually driven and goal-oriented student, I always heard the phrase “education is the key to success”. Now while I may agree with this statement, sadly, the education system and the job market in Trinidad and Tobago do not effectively cater for the overall development…

Business Shweta Sharma 3 Days Ago ACCA highlights the growing trend of offshoring by accounting and auditing firms. (Photo courtesy Freepik) - Small and medium-sized accountancy practices can use offshore centres to tackle staff shortages at home. Offshoring may seem like yesterday’s news and part of a globalisation narrative that…

The UK economy bounced back from the pandemic much better than previously thought, according to revised figures from the Office for National Statistics. It means the UK is no longer the G7’s worst performing economy on that measure...Read More

By Zach HopeUpdated September 7, 2023 — 10.06am A curious thing happened this week in Queensland. Steven Miles, who some might call the premier in waiting, chaired a weekly meeting of his Labor cabinet colleagues. The 45-year-old then addressed the media assembled at parliament’s rainy porte-cochere, explaining a show-cause notice…

Posted September 6, 2023 at 6:00am Congress poured money into the U.S. economy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But for a few hospitals, one of the lifelines that Medicare threw to the medical industry ultimately became another stone around their necks.  Medicare flooded hospitals with cash after the virus prompted the…

A Maine health-care provider wants the nurses it fired during the pandemic for refusing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to come back to work. File photo. ‘I was livid. … You think I’m gonna come grovel back to you?’ Jack Davis The Western Journal WND News Center A Maine…

LONDON: Oil prices hovered above $90 a barrel on Friday, on track to end the week higher as investors chose to focus on tighter supply, despite broader macroeconomic uncertainty. Both oil benchmarks hit 10-month highs earlier this week after Saudi Arabia and Russia extended their voluntary supply cuts of a…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study showing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation strategies used to manage the virus on emergency department (ED) visits in British Columbia can help with future planning. The study is published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). "Evaluation of the effects…