Saudis Scrap In-Person Attendance for Flagship Investment Event
Saudi Arabia has ruled out holding its flagship investment conference in person this year as continuing Houthi attacks disrupt travel into the kingdom, dealing a blow to Riyadh’s efforts to attract foreign capital and position itself as a global business hub.
Alberta needs to grow up
The separatists are going to lose Monday's referendum. The rest of the province should use the defeat as an opportunity to finally put their well-tended grievances in the past and look towards the fut...
Vancouver has re-secured its climate leadership
With Ken Sim and his right-wing council sent packing as progressives swept to power, the city is on track to return to its internationally recognized status as an innovator in climate policy.
Houthi attack kills 53 in biggest single loss of life since Yemen civil war reignited
More than 200 mostly young people said to be injured after ballistic missile attack on training camp for government forces At least 53 people have been killed in a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a training camp for Yemeni government forces in the largest single loss of life since the country’s civil war reignited in September. The attack on the al-Alam camp in Shabwa province, southern Yemen, was said to have injured more than 200 others, mostly young recruits, and described as a disaster by the country’s UN-recognised government. The injured were taken from the police and army training camp in the Jardan district to a hospital in the local capital, Ataq, where pleas for blood donations were made. Continue reading...
'Police weren't overwhelmed by people protesting and marching' about education and cost of living
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Andrew Smith, Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen Mary University of London. France's escalating social unrest has exposed a troubling disconnect between legitimate popular grievances and the government's increasingly security-focused response. Smith argues that the violence accompanying otherwise largely peaceful demonstrations reveals serious failures of policing, while President Emmanuel Macron's response offers "very little of substance." Drawing parallels with France's historic protest movements, Smith identifies a "convergence of causes" rooted in economic insecurity, educational inequalities and political paralysis. He warns that a repressive response risks deepening the crisis, calling instead for a renewed commitment to "participatory social democracy."
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