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Anthony Shim has a palpable presence as he stands outside the Vancouver Playhouse at the hometown premiere of his feature film Riceboy Sleeps. The world premiere was on Sept. 11 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

I have read many articles claiming that costs of wind and solar generation are lower than alternatives, and that rapidly declining costs seen in the past will continue unabated in the future, reducing the cost of electricity for consumers.

It happened in a second. One moment the Hadhad family was one of the most successful chocolate makers in Damascus. The next, their factory was destroyed by bombs from the Syrian war and the Hadhad family fled to the basement of their apartment building for shelter.

It is a rallying cry heard frequently these days intended to signal truth, intelligence, and righteousness. Whether in climate change discussions or pandemic responses, energy posturing or political systems, it seems the mere mention of “science” implies incontestable and definitive proof.

The eruption of SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, in 2020 changed the world in many ways. There was an understandable amount of fear in those early days. One of the concerns was the alarming number of people dying of the disease, resulting in the hasty implementation of well-intentioned measures to prevent as many of those deaths as possible.

As the war in Ukraine approaches its 100th day, Russia is being propelled by a flood of cash that could average $800 million a day this year — and that's just what the commodity superpower is raking in from oil and gas.

The Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable is calling on the federal government to provide urgent relief at the border by alleviating pressures currently facing travelers at Canada's airports before June 15, 2022.

The Bank of Canada’s decision, which brings the benchmark overnight rate to 1.5%, was delivered in a hawkish statement that aired worries about price pressures intensifying and becoming entrenched at elevated levels.

by Miklos A. Nagy

Business Edge Media

I wrote my first article about the “Smith Manoeuvre” in November, 2019. Since then, the world has been grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic with significant implications for every country’s economy and future.