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Roopa Dave is a Vancouver-based partner in KPMG Canada’s Sustainability Services practice.handout The growing commitment of the global financial community to supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy is now pushing organizations to seek out people with the talent to deliver on these commitments: finance professionals with a green streak. “Sustainable finance may seem like a new concept to some, ...

Although bipartisanship appears to be rare in polarized Washington, after Donald Trump was defeated for a second term as president, the coast was free for Republicans to join Democrats in bashing both Russia and China. For a Republican, Trump’s policy toward the autocratic regime in Russia had been unusually friendly, and his policy toward Chinese authoritarians had initially been favorable ...

Little Wolf High School based band By Holly Neumann By a 3: 1 vote, the Manawa School Board approved a Gay / Straight Alliance (GSA) club at Little Wolf High School. Students and community members have spoken on the topic on November 15 at the monthly council meeting. Senior Grace Tohm followed all protocols, guidelines and rules to start the ...

According to my parents, when I was six months old, I had a grand mal seizure. I was in my grandmother’s arms and I turned blue. After that I started having infantile spasms (IS). My first was at Disneyland during the Main Street Electric Parade. My mom saw me do these weird movements and was terrified. My parents then took ...

Launched in the 1980s as the AIDS epidemic swept the country, the Alliance for Positive Health has broadened its mission in recent years. Stretching from the Hudson Valley to the Capital Region and north to the Canadian border, the not-for-profit social service organization tackles a wide range of chronic diseases and a range related issues in the lives of clients ...

CHICAGO – More than 1,000 people demonstrated on Saturday to protest the verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial, gathering in Federal Plaza before marching through the city center. On Friday, a jury acquitted Rittenhouse of intentional homicide and other charges, finding the teenage shooter acted in self-defense when he shot two men and injured a third in August 2020 in downtown ...

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) have joined with other global telecom operators to explore next-generation technology to make its network more efficient, resilient, flexible and intelligent. Together with members of the Global Alliance for Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN), PLDT and Smart began to study network disaggregation, both vertical and horizontal. In vertical disaggregation, network functions ...

Earlier this week, the Columbia-United Auto Workers (SWC-UAW) student workers union agreed to move its ongoing bargaining negotiations with Columbia University over their first mediated employment contract. While details remain to be worked out, the SWC-UAW decision is an important step to end the three-week strike of more than 3,000 graduate student-workers for adequate living and working conditions. Columbia strikers ...

At the moment, Bavaria does not wish to participate in an initiative of the federal government and other Länder to develop open source software for public authorities. With the concept of a “sovereign workplace” there are “a number of questions”, said a spokesperson for the Bavarian State Ministry interviewed by c’t. Therefore, Bavaria will not participate at this early stage. ...

Thousands of illegal immigrants try to enter Poland of Belarus, with violent clashes with border guards that erupted on Tuesday. To help understand what’s going on on the Polish-Belarusian border, The Daily Signal spoke with Alexis Mrachek, associate researcher specializing in Russia and Eurasia at the Heritage Foundation. The Daily Signal: We are receiving reports of thousands of migrants attempting ...