China’s ceremonial legislature on Thursday endorsed the Communist Party’s latest move to tighten control over Hong Kong by reducing the role of its public in picking the region’s leaders.
Day: March 11, 2021
Canada’s Justyn Knight is back using the winning mentality from his college running days at Syracuse and the results have followed with five consecutive victories. He’s hoping it leads to achieving “something special” at the Tokyo Olympics.
In the last months of Lionel Desmond’s life — and those of his wife, his daughter and his mother — he would visit six doctors near his home in rural Nova Scotia, looking for the same thing: the help for ongoing symptoms of severe post-traumatic stress disorder he’d been told would be waiting.
When ICU nurse Shawn Toovey isn’t caring for some of Saskatchewan’s sickest patients, he’s collecting scrap medical plastics, including medicine bottles, syringe covers and vaccine-vial caps, to make artwork. The ICU nurse uses art to relieve work-related stress after experiencing burn out a few years ago.
From house prices to tech stocks, the pandemic has had a counterintuitive impact on the prices of a variety of assets, driving many to record highs at a time when the economy is still reeling. Now, experts are warning about a niche type of investment vehicle that’s veering into bubble territory.