One year after the price of crude fell to ‘the depths of hell,’ Canada’s oil patch can cheer first-quarter profit outlook Dan Healing Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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One year after oil prices crashed to their first and only negative close during a perfect storm of energy demand bad news, Canada’s oil patch is poised to report a first-quarter gush of cash flow thanks to a dramatic recovery in global demand.
Philippines Lowers Pork Tariffs and Ag Fairs Rescue Act
Friday Apr 16th, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. With pork production in the Philippines heavily impacted by African swine fever, the President there is temporarily lowering tariff rates for imported pork muscle cuts.
The Philippines standard tariff rates are among the highest in the world, typically 30% to 40%.
U.S. Meat Export Federation Economist Erin Borror says the order lowers the in-quota tariff rate to 5% for a period of three months, and then 10% for the following nine months.
After 12 months, the rates will return to previous levels.
Assembly Elections 2021 | Cash, other freebies seizures top ₹1,000 crore
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Tamil Nadu tops with inducements worth ₹446.28 crore recovered.
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Tamil Nadu tops with inducements worth ₹446.28 crore recovered. The Election Commission on Friday said it had seized cash, liquor, drugs, precious metals and other freebies worth ₹1,001.43 crore meant for distribution to voters in the ongoing Assembly elections.
“Seizures crossed ₹1,000 crore for the first time in any Assembly electoral process,” the EC said in a statement.
Of the total seizures as on Thursday in Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and the States where byelections are being conducted, Tamil Nadu topped the tally with seizures of ₹446.28 crore.
Superintendent: Buffalo Public Schools will not reduce minimum distance from six feet to three feet
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and last updated 2021-04-14 19:28:08-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â During a Board of Education meeting Wednesday night, Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash announced that the district will not reduce the minimum distance between people from six feet to three feet.
The superintendent said this decision was made with a recommendation from the district s medical director.
The New York State Department of Health released updated guidance on Friday that allows school districts in the state to reduce the minimum distance between people from six feet to three feet.
Valuables, cash snatched in Kasur
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KASUR: Several people were deprived of cash and other valuables on Wednesday.
Five bandits barged into the house of Afzal near Chiriwan village, Mustafaabad and took away five toal gold jewellery, Rs 50,000 and other valuables. Six gunmen entered the house of Amina Bibi near Raja Jang and took away 15 tola gold jewellery, Rs 35,000 and other valuables. Four robbers snatched Rs 65,000, a mobile phone and other valuables from Shaukat Ali near Nooh Fateh Dhaba in Phoolnagar City.
MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN ROAD ACCIDENT: A motorcyclist died in a road accident near Shamkot village, Kanganpur. Muhammad Aslam, 50, was travelling on a motorcycle when a speeding truck hit him, leaving him dead on the spot.