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(Reuters) - The head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Mark Machin, has resigned after his trip to the United Arab Emirates for vaccination against COVID-19 flouted Canadian government’s travel advice and drew criticism.
FILE PHOTO: Mark Machin, President and CEO, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, speaks at the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
CPPIB on Friday named John Graham, currently senior managing director and global head of credit investments, as the new chief executive officer of the country’s largest pension fund.
Machin, 54, becomes the second senior Canadian corporate executive to resign after attempting to jump vaccine queue, underscoring the frustration among some about the country’s slow vaccine roll out.
The undersigned call on the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke to end its conflicts of interest by denying platforms to Koch-funded diffusers of misinformation.
Blackrock Gold Corp.: Blackrock Gold Appoints Daniel Vickerman as SVP Corporate Development
Vancouver, British Columbia (Newsfile Corp. - February 25, 2021) - Blackrock Gold Corp. (TSXV: BRC) (the
Company ) is pleased to announce that Daniel Vickerman is joining the Company as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Mr. Vickerman has served as an Independent Director of the Company since August 2020, prior to transitioning into this executive role. As a result, Mr. Vickerman will step down from the Board at the Company s next annual general meeting.
Mr. Vickerman is a seasoned institutional sales and corporate finance professional with 25 years of experience in the financial industry and formerly, Managing Director, Head of UK of Beacon Securities UK and former Managing Director, Head of UK for Edgecrest Capital. Prior to joining Edgecrest Capital UK, Mr. Vickerman was Managing Director, Co-Head of Canadian Equity Sales UK at Canaccord Genuity Corp. Mr. Vickerman previo
Getchell Gold Corp. Builds Out Technical Team
Toronto, Ontario (Newsfile Corp. - February 25, 2021) -
Getchell Gold Corp. (CSE: GTCH) (OTCQB: GGLDF) ( Getchell or the Company ), a leading Nevada focused Gold and Copper exploration company, wishes to announce the appointment of Scott Frostad as VP of Exploration. The 2020 drill program at the Fondaway Canyon Gold Project in Nevada was highly successful and demonstrated the thickness, continuity, and high-grade nature of the near surface mineralization, states Mike Sieb, President, Getchell Gold Corp. In preparation of Getchell being one of the most active junior mining companies in the region, the Company is establishing a seasoned and dynamic technical team to meet the increased demands that the 2021 field season will bring.
Poverty road in China drives some to riches, leaves others behind
Complex criteria to determine who gets aid has also fuelled unhappiness
AFP
February 25, 2021
Although Liu received a grant as a poverty-stricken household he says business has been weak. AFP
At his village along a poverty alleviation road in Hunan province, farmer Liu Qingyou shares a booklet detailing how Xi Jinping s government has hoisted him and 100 million other Chinese from the breadline.
In it, the cause of his family s hardship is diagnosed as illness and schooling , followed by a list of ways the state has helped, from grain subsidies to improving the yield of their orange groves.