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Equipment Journal April 1, 2021 EllisDon is celebrating 70 years since the employee-owned construction services company was established. EllisDon was founded in London, Ontario by brothers Don and David Ellis Smith. Today, EllisDon celebrates and looks back, from their first project for a small home renovation, to becoming a world-leading construction, building services and technology company with more than 5,000 salaried employees.  From the beginning, EllisDon has been an industr...

The global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to worsen in New Zealand. Working people are bearing the full burden, through job losses and the soaring cost of living, especially in housing, pushed up by landlords and ...

Press Release – Socialist Equality Group The global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to worsen in New Zealand. Working people are bearing the full burden, through job losses and the soaring cost of living, especially in housing, pushed up by landlords and investor speculation. In the 12 months to September 2020, New Zealand’s economy shrank by 2.2 percent. While there was a return to growth in the September quarter, some economists believe the country is n...

Press Release – Socialist Equality Group The global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to worsen in New Zealand. Working people are bearing the full burden, through job losses and the soaring cost of living, especially in housing, pushed up by landlords and … The global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to worsen in New Zealand. Working people are bearing the full burden, through job losses and the soaring cost of living, e...

For an independent political response of the working class to the COVID-19 catastrophe in Brazil! With daily record death tolls, a nationwide collapse of the hospital system, more infectious variants spreading rapidly and less than 5 percent of the population vaccinated, the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has reached a level of total catastrophe. On Wednesday, the country had a record 2,349 deaths from COVID-19. With this staggering number, 50 percent higher than the peak reached during the first ...

Article – Socialist Equality Group By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 10 March 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/10/maor-m10.html A report released by the New Zealand Reserve Bank in January revealed that Mori businesses and non-profit organisations owned almost $NZ69 billion ($US50.2 billion) … By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group A report released by the New Zealand Reserve Bank in January revealed that Māori businesses and non-profit organisatio...

UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as governments pursue reckless reopening of schools The UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee held a powerful meeting Saturday with speakers from three continents, including three countries in the top-five internationally for COVID-19 fatalities—the UK, the United States and Brazil. Between them, these countries account for more than 900,000 of the 2.58 million worldwide COVID-19 deaths. The meeting outlined an international strategy bas...

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 8:49 am Chris Ross and Tom Peters,  On February 25, New Zealand’s finance minister Grant Robertson took the unusual step of instructing the Reserve Bank to “take into account the government’s objective to support more sustainable house prices” and affordability when setting monetary policy. The statement directed to the central bank is an empty gesture, which will do nothing to halt out-of-control housing prices and rents. It indicates growing alarm in ruling...

Zoe Marie Crisp and Grace Fain Steenbergen will join Senator John Barrasso and Senator Cynthia Lummis in representing Wyoming during the 59th annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) Washington Week, set for March 14—17, 2021. Zoe Crisp of Jackson and Grace Steenbergen of Burns were selected from among the state’s top student leaders to [...]

Investment Week is hosting its Global Emerging Markets Briefing at a pivotal time for investors as they start to position for the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, although risks remain. During this interactive briefing, we will hear from a number of global emerging market managers about their response to the extraordinary events of the past year and their outlook for the rest of the year and beyond. The managers will identify where they are seeing the biggest opportunities and risks at the ...