Category Archives: Economy
Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers
BOSTON (AP) — Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London’s hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city’s firefighters called out sick. In New York, about
COVID-19 spike worsens Africa’s severe poverty, hunger woes
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Outside a foreign currency exchange in Zimbabwe’s capital, hordes of people desperate for U.S. dollars are pushed up against each other. “That’s it,
Biden signs bills on forced labor in China, ALS research
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Thursday to block imports from China's Xinjiang region unless businesses can prove the items were made without forced labor, the latest in a series of intensifying U.S. penalties against
B.C. businesses can apply for grant to offset latest COVID-19 shutdown costs
VANCOUVER — New one-time grants are on the way for businesses in British Columbia that were forced to shut down by the latest COVID-19 restrictions. Ravi Kahlon, the minister of jobs, economic recovery and innovation, said affected businesses, such as ...
Officials question San Francisco’s emergency over opioids
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco were meeting Thursday to consider an emergency order requested by the mayor to tackle the opioid epidemic in the city's troubled Tenderloin neighborhood, with some members clearly dismayed ...
AP Exclusive: Polish opposition senator hacked with spyware
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Sen. Krzysztof Brejza’s mobile phone was hacked with sophisticated spyware nearly three dozen times in 2019 when he was running the opposition's campaign against the right-wing populist government in parliamentary elections...
Top tips to trim your tax bill and beef up your returns before the end of 2021
HALIFAX — The clock is ticking on 2021 but financial experts say there's still time to trim your tax bill and beef up your return with these simple steps. Whether you're a student scraping by or an investor with sky-high returns,
US adds Merck pill as 2nd easy-to-use drug against COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Thursday authorized the second pill against COVID-19, providing another easy-to-use medication to battle the rising tide of omicron infections. The
Albanian prime minister apologizes over database leak
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's prime minister on Thursday apologized for a big leak of personal records from a government database of state and private employees, which he said seems more like an inside job than a cyber attack.
Buttigieg doles out $241M to US ports to boost supply chain
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is awarding more than $241 million in grants to bolster U.S ports, part of the Biden administration's near-term plan to address America's clogged supply chain with infrastructure improvements to...
