Singapore (CNN) – Nearly five hours of unprecedented and surreal talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un culminated on Tuesday with fulsome declarations of a new friendship but just vague pledges of nuclear disarmament. For Trump, that amounted to a triumphant outcome in his extraordinary gamble […]
05 June 2018, New Delhi –India went big in their commitment to Beat Plastic Pollution today, with an announcement to eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022. This unprecedented ambitious move against disposable plastic will drastically stem the flow of plastics from 1.3 billion people and business in […]
Jerry Morales, the mayor of Midland, Texas, and a local restaurateur, is being whipsawed by the latest Permian Basin shale-oil boom. It’s fueling the region and starving it at the same time. Sales-tax revenue is hitting a record high, allowing the city to get around to fixing busted roads. But […]
Even if the president strikes a deal with North Korea, his approach will harm America and the world PICTURE this: next week in Singapore President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un crown their summit with a pledge to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons. A few days later America […]
LAS VEGAS — A young Barry Trotz remembers taping his stick before the conversation that changed his hockey life. It was 1982 and he was at his first (and only) NHL training camp with the Washington Capitals. He was gearing up when he saw newly minted Capitals GM David Poile […]
The body that runs Canada’s university sports system has signed up a U.S. marketing powerhouse to work on a national strategy to secure millions of dollars from Canada’s corporate giants. U Sports, the governing body for athletics at 56 Canadian universities, hopes to pull in tens of millions of dollars […]
Gold 2048 brings together industry-leading experts from across the globe to analyse how the gold market is set to evolve in the next 30 years. Key insights from authors such as George Magnus, senior economist; Rick Lacaille, Global Chief Investment Officer of State Street Global Advisors; and Michelle Ash, Chief […]
Want more evidence that America’s economy needs more workers? For the first time in at least 20 years, there are now more job openings than there are people looking for work. The ratio of unemployed workers to job openings dropped below one in April for the first time since the […]
Like a real war, it spurs nationalist enthusiasm, but the consequences can be grim One of the curious and, to many, incomprehensible, stories of the First World War is how young Canadians joined up in droves and marched off whistling to one of history’s most gruesome conflicts. Whether in a […]
Blame China and those who are breaking trade rules, not Donald Trump, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said as China warned that all commitments so far in talks with the U.S. over trade will be withdrawn if the president carries out his threat to impose tariffs. Kudlow said rule-breaking […]