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Canada on ‘the razor’s edge’ of a recession, warns economist
recession is a real possibility. “We’re on the razor’s edge here,” David Macdonald, a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives told CTV News Channel’s Marcia MacMillan on Wednesday. “The danger is that it doesn’t take a lot to push us into negative terrifter the Bank of Canada held tory.” Macdonald says Canada has its key interest rate at five been “skating along” since February per cent, an economist says when the economy began to stagnate, that inflation will be the key factor but there hasn’t been a big decline in in determining whether more rate real GDP, an economic metric used Cont. @ page 5 hikes are coming, and warns that a
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Burning Man revellers begin exodus after flooding left tens of thousands stranded in Nevada desert
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uddy roads that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days at a counterculture festival had dried up enough by Monday afternoon to allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert. Burning Man organizers said they began to let traffic flow out of the main road around 2 p.m. local time -- even as they continued to ask revelers to delay their exit to Tuesday to ease traffic. As of Monday afternoon, they said about 64,000 people
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China signals Xi Jinping will not attend G20 summit in India
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hina on Monday indicated that leader Xi Jinping would skip an important gathering of the world’s 20 top economies for the first time with Premier Li Qiang traveling to the event in New Delhi this weekend in his place. Xi’s absence from the G20 summit comes as tensions simmer between China and host country India, especially over their disputed border and New Delhi’s growing ties with the United States. The no-show of China’s top leader – unprecedented since the first such summit was held in 2008 – will likely be seen as a snub to India, which is hosting the powerful group of world leaders for the first time amid efforts to boost its global clout under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Questions about Xi’s attendance at the meeting were first raised
last week when Reuters reported the Chinese leader was likely to miss it, citing two unnamed Indian diplomats. At a regular news conference Monday, China’s Foreign Ministry said Li, China’s second-ranking leader, would attend the summit on Saturday and Sunday, without mentioning Xi. Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the ministry, sidestepped a question from a reporter about the reason for Xi’s non-attendance. “The Group of 20 is a major forum for international economic cooperation, and China has always attached great importance to and actively participated in relevant activities,” Mao said, without addressing the substance of the question. Even during the Covid pandemic, Xi attended the meetings in 2020 and 2021 by video link. Source: cnn.com/
International students struggle to find afford- Israel opens new embassy in Bahrain, agrees to boost trade relations able housing, some facing homelessness
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rom high rents to scams to excessive paperwork, students and advocates say the B.C. housing market has gotten worse over the last few years. Many students find themselves so desperate to find a place to live, they accept unsafe and unhygienic conditions, including Amy Choi, an interna-
tional student at The University of British Columbia. “Last year, I had a huge leakage on my ceiling and my landlord did not tell me anything about malfunctions of the house. I had to deal with it during finals week, but I was really desperate for housing so I had to just sign up for it,” she recalled. Despite being a returning student, she still hasn’t secured a place to live long-term. “Everyone’s competing and they’re even collecting reference letters for it-- for housing-- which I don’t really think is necessary and everything is also just incredibly expensive,” said Choi.commute for hours. Source: bc.ctvnews.ca
Israel and Bahrain continue to strengthen ties, after they were established in 2020 as part of the Abraham Accords. srael’s foreign minister has agreed with his Bahraini counterpart to boost trade relations, during his first visit to one of the two Gulf Arab states to establish ties with Israel. “The foreign minister and I agreed that we should work together to increase the number of direct flights, the tourism, the trade volume, the investment,” Eli Cohen said during a ceremony to inaugurate Israel’s new embassy in Bahrain on Monday.The embassy in the capital Manama will replace the first embassy Israel opened in 2021, a year after it established diplomatic relations with Bahrain as part of the United States-brokered Abraham Accords... Cont.@ Pg 5
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