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With the recent oil price recovery, Calgary has awakened from a long economic slumber, and its new mayor wants to help the city reduce its dependency on oil by becoming a leader in new sources of energy.Jyoti Gondek has a Ph.D. in urban sociology, was a member of the city’s planning commission and a city councilor. She promotes policies that put her at odds with the city’s conservative establishment, which is entwined with the oil industry.Oil’s last collapse, in 2014-15, gave Calgary, a city of 1.3 million, a problem now facing most cities: finding new uses for empty downtown office…

The lifting of a pandemic-era restriction that turned away many migrants at the U.S. border has ignited fierce debates within the Democratic Party over immigration and border security, exposing raw intraparty divisions over an issue that Democrats often find difficult to navigate.As U.S. officials brace for a rise in illegal crossings at the southern border after the expiration of the measure, known as Title 42, Democrats are grappling with competing political demands, seeking to address the intensification of a long-running humanitarian crisis and in some cases flexing their border security bona fides.Mayors, members of Congress and other Democrats have demanded…

A California panel approved recommendations on Saturday that could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to Black residents to address past injustices. The proposals to state legislators are the nation’s most sweeping effort to devise a program of reparations.The nine-member Reparations Task Force, whose work is being closely monitored by politicians, historians and economists across the country, produced a detailed plan for how restitution should be handled to address a myriad of racist harms, including housing discrimination, mass incarceration and unequal access to health care.Created through a bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in the wake…

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The writer is chief executive of SchrodersIt seems the City of London has developed a new passion — commentating on its own demise. The challenges the UK faces are significant and important. The long-term wealth creation capacity of the country is at stake. But the arguments over those challenges have been well rehearsed to the point of becoming cliched.The Financial Conduct Authority should be applauded for joining the movement for change with proposals for a regulatory overhaul last week. Reforming the listings regime and simplifying related party transactions will make London an easier place to do business.As importantly, the FCA‘s…

Source: PixabayBinance is pulling out of Canada.The world’s largest crypto exchange said on Twitter that it was withdrawing from the country due to new guidance about stablecoins and limits to investors.“We put off this decision as long as we could to explore other reasonable avenues to protect our Canadian users, but it has become apparent that there are none,” the company said.Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, who is a Canadian citizen, retweeted the news.“We would like to thank those regulators who worked with us collaboratively to address the needs of Canadian users. Albeit a small market, it held sentimental value for…

Alarmed by an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among younger women and persistently high death rates among Black women in particular, health experts on Tuesday offered a stark revision to the standard medical advice on mammograms. Women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds who are at average risk for breast cancer should start getting regular mammograms at age 40, instead of treating it as an individual decision until they are 50, as previously recommended, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said.The group issues influential guidelines on preventive health, and its recommendations usually are widely adopted in the United States. But…

Robyn Beck | Afp | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in extended trading.Disney — Shares fell 4.7% after the company reported mixed fiscal second quarter results. Earnings came in line with estimates, while revenue slightly beat analysts’ estimates, according to Refinitiv data. While the company said its losses from its streaming segment narrowed, it shed 4 million Disney+ subscribers.related investing newsBeyond Meat — The alternative meat manufacturer’s shares rose 8.5% after Beyond Meat posted better-than-expected results for the first quarter. Beyond Meat reported a loss of 92 cents per share and $92.2 million in revenue. Analysts had anticipated…

5‘Who? Weekly’ and ‘The Read’I like my low-stakes celebrity and pop culture news explained to me with jokes and spicy opinions, and these two brilliant podcasts never let me down. I trust the hosts implicitly. I have never missed an episode! My stepkids are 15 and 17, and you know teenagers, nothing exists outside their body or their phone, so they don’t keep me hip. It’s nice to have my pop culture delivered into my ears by people who are funny and know more than I do.6‘Gone Girl’The first time I read “Gone Girl,” it knocked me out of my…

LOS ANGELES — When the tenor Russell Thomas appeared at the Los Angeles Opera in 2017, Plácido Domingo, the company’s general director, asked him to return one day to sing the title role in Verdi’s “Otello.” It was a notable invitation coming from Domingo, the leading Otello of his day, who sang the role in 1986 at the very first performance of the Los Angeles company.Six years later, Thomas is back in Los Angeles starring as Otello in a six-performance run that begins Saturday. But Domingo, who had initially contemplated singing opposite him as the opera’s villain, Iago, is gone,…