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Nurse, 75, charged in alleged sexual assault of long-term care resident in Ontario

Police east of Toronto have charged a 75-year-old nurse they allege sexually assaulted a resident while working at a long-term care home last fall.
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Concern grows for high-risk missing man in New Westminster

The New Westminster Police Department is asking people to help find a high-risk missing person who was last seen on Thursday morning.
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Several hurt after bus carrying swimmers collides with heavy truck in Quebec

Quebec provincial police say they were called to the crash on Thursday afternoon as a winter storm brought heavy snow across the province.
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Trump thinks antagonising China will help save the US economy. He couldn’t be more wrong | Melanie Brusseler

Politicians believe tariffs will revive a lost era of American manufacturing. But they won’t improve people’s everyday lives

Donald Trump appears to be testing the boundaries of the power he can accumulate and then exert upon his allies, with a singular ambition: to coerce them into submitting to US supremacy. Though the president temporarily walked back his threat to unleash severe universal tariffs on Mexico and Canada, he has since imposed 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports, which will primarily hit Canada, Mexico and China, and has announced a new plan for “reciprocal tariffs” on American trading partners. Above all, he clearly intends to wage a trade war against China. His brash, bombastic and belligerent threats reflect the reactionary political energy that drove his rise, which feeds on displays of dominance and disruption. His trade war won’t work to restore US economic dominance – but it tells us a lot about how both sides of the political aisle blame the US’s economic precarity on China’s economic ascent.

Over the past decade both Democrats and Republicans have blamed growing economic discontent on the sharp decline of American industry. The share of the US workforce employed in manufacturing has been in decline since the 1950s: today, just over 8% of American workers are employed in manufacturing, compared with 32% in 1953. The postwar era holds a powerful resonance for both the right and the left, and is often romanticised as a period when unionised male breadwinners in the industrial working class enjoyed far greater economic stability and prosperity than working and middle-class people do today. Viewed through this prism, since the decline of US manufacturing has occurred at the same time that China has emerged as a global manufacturing powerhouse, China’s gains equate to the US’s – and its workers’ – losses.

Melanie Brusseler is a political economist and the US programme director at the thinktank Common Wealth

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The Pavilions Himalayas and NGO Right4Children reveal results of transformative community initiative

Dedicated to supporting sustainable development of the local community, Nepalese eco-luxury resort, The Pavilions Himalayas, alongside its NGO arm, Right4Children (R4C), has spent over a decade supporting and implementing charitable, community initiatives in the Pokhara region. The latest annual impact report* from R4C details the extent of their work over the course of the year and the significant positive impact this has yet again made to the lives of local people, including the completion of the five-year Child-Friendly School project, which reached over 14,000 pupils and a new anti-trafficking initiative that provided support to over 4,400 young women and girls.
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