Kategori: Finance
G20 nations pledge to ‘cooperate’ on taxing super-rich
(Rio de Janeiro) The G20 countries pledged Friday in Rio de Janeiro to “cooperate” so that the wealthiest people are taxed more, in the name of the fight against inequality,…
Review of an agreement with the United States | Experts call on Ottawa to make more trade efforts
(Washington) A group of experts is sounding the alarm: Ottawa must quickly move closer to the United States, or Canada will be at a serious disadvantage in the imminent revision…
Federal government posts $3.9 billion deficit in April and May
(Ottawa) The federal government recorded a deficit of 3.9 billion during the first two months of the fiscal year. Published at 12:53 p.m. The result for the period from April…
Robinson Treaties Violated: Federal Government Must Find Settlement with Anishinaabe, Says Supreme Court of Canada
The Crown dishonourably breached the Robinson Treaties and must negotiate a settlement with First Nations within six months, the Supreme Court of Canada rules. The two treaties, signed in 1850,…
Scotiabank | Technical issues disrupt salary payments to Scotiabank customers
(Toronto) Scotiabank says some account holders are not receiving direct deposits or cheque deposits including payroll payments. Published at 11:54 a.m. Customers have taken to social media to complain about…
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras Founder John Eliot Gardiner Loses Orchestras
In a statement released Wednesday, the board of directors of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras (MCO) said it had decided that John Eliot Gardiner would not be returning to the…
United States | Inflation fell slightly in June to 2.5% over one year, according to the PCE index
(Washington) Inflation slowed slightly again in June in the United States, in line with market expectations, to return to 2.5% over a year, after 2.6% in May, according to the…
Global IT Outage | 97% of Affected Systems Back Online, CrowdStrike Says
(New York) CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company whose software caused a global computer outage on July 19, announced that more than 97% of systems affected by the bug are back online.…
Racial profiling and the eternal shift towards the status quo in Montreal
The fight to end police racism in Montreal has reached an impasse. We have never had more evidence of racism within Montreal’s police force, nor a better understanding of what…
We visited the Olympic Village
Located in Seine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris, the Olympic village will house 14,500 athletes and their companions in 82 buildings. Read also The Olympic Village in the Eye of Jean Balthazard…
AI | Apple agrees to comply with White House precautions
(San Francisco) Apple has joined a dozen tech companies that have pledged to follow certain rules to limit the risks of so-called generative artificial intelligence, the White House said Friday.…
The 40th edition of the Innu Nikamu festival celebrates the memory of Philippe McKenzie
Innu Nikamu, “one of the largest indigenous music festivals on the continent,” will be in full swing in Mani-Utenam from July 30 to August 4. Its director, Normand Junior Thirnish-Pilot,…
Non-consensual deepfake images | Meta’s supervisory board asks it to clarify its policies
(London) Meta will have to clarify its policies regarding non-consensual deepfake images, the company’s “oversight board” concluded Thursday, in a ruling on cases involving explicit depictions of two famous women…
“Un-American Activities,” Molly Nilsson | Le Devoir
The charm of Molly Nilsson’s music still works. Un-American Activities is very political and we can only be pleased about it in these times… With titles like Palestine, The Communist…
Loblaw posts profit drop
Loblaw said the boycott of its stores in the last quarter had minimal impact, with the company attributing the drop in profits to a settlement over an alleged bread price-fixing…
What to do this weekend of July 27 and 28?
For the love of pollinators As their population declines dramatically, we are more aware than ever of the role pollinators play in the proper functioning of our ecosystems and our…
Meta, the unexpected evangelist of open-source AI
(Washington) Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta (Facebook, Instagram), has become an unexpected figurehead in the development of open-source artificial intelligence (open source in English), versus the closed models…
OpenAI tests search engine
(New York) OpenAI announced Thursday that it is testing a search engine with a select group of users, a feature it plans to integrate into ChatGPT and which would position…
Antonio Guterres warns humanity of ‘extreme heat epidemic’
Humanity, victim of an “extreme heat epidemic” that it has caused, must rise to this challenge, pleaded the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Thursday, calling for concrete measures to be…
Money for aggrieved customers
The news must have pleased many consumers: Loblaw and its parent company Weston are set to pay $500 million for their part in the bread price-fixing scheme. The legal victory…