As a book by French economist Thomas Piketty has soared to the top of U.S. best seller lists and the public discourse surrounding inequality has popularized the once rare term “oligarchy” in recent weeks, the American rightwing appears flabbergasted about how to respond to the seemingly red-hot rise of the idea that modern capitalism has […]
With approximately 600 stores worldwide in more than 30 countries, we are used to the challenges that come with setting up new stores. We use our extensive know-how, accumulated in our long-standing branch business, to support our partners during planning, realizing and managing their own concept. Through the Concept of Franchising, Popken Fashion Group offers […]
Former Renault F1 driver Jolyon Palmer believes Esteban Ocon, heralded as one of F1’s brightest young talents, isn’t stacking up well against teammate Daniel Ricciardo. After an impressive start to his career in F1 marked by his consistency and pace with Force India, Ocon was forced to spend a year on the sidelines, having been […]
OTTAWA — The Senate announced Wednesday it will pay $498,000 to nine ex-employees for harassment and sexual harassment they experienced while working in the office of former senator Don Meredith. Compensation is the culmination of a multi-year process that has been plagued by delays and secrecy. Toronto lawyer Brian Mitchell represented two of the nine […]
Retirement and long-term care homes have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but residents at one Ontario home experienced a little extra joy this summer releasing monarch butterflies in their courtyard. Anne MacLean James is a former activation aide at Golden Dawn Senior Citizen Home in Lions Head, Ont., who returned in […]
The Toronto Star is facing backlash after publishing a comic strip featuring a transphobic joke and imagery in the national paper this week. The Toronto chapter of PFlag, an outreach and support group for the LGBTQ+ community, drew attention to the comics on Twitter and called on the Star to apologize. “The comic perpetuates stereotypes […]
The National Wildlife Federation filed a lawsuit this week charging the U.S. State Department is refusing to disclose public information about a pipeline company’s possible plans to transport dangerous tar sands oil from Montreal to the coast of Maine. The lawsuit takes aim at the oil industry’s repeated claims that there is no plan to […]
According to all publicly available information, 45-year-old Rusty Bucklew is slated this week to become the latest person in the United States to die by the experimental lethal injection drug implicated in a grisly botched execution in Oklahoma last month. Now a group of lawyers has taken the step of petitioning an international human rights […]
Renowned Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg slammed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the nation’s justice system for denying whistleblowers like Edward Snowden a “truly fair trial.” In an editorial published Friday in the Guardian, Ellsberg took direct aim at Kerry’s controversial statement earlier this week, in which the Secretary of State declared, “There […]
“The murders of unarmed people in our communities has reached epidemic numbers.” This is the warning that kicks off a national call (via video) from the Dream Defenders—the group that grabbed the national media spotlight last year when its members launched protests against Stand Your Ground Laws, including by occupying the office of Florida Governor […]