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Ontarios newly appointed minister of finance has his work cut out for him.

WORK has begun to revamp Llandudno railway station for use by a community enterprise. Llandudno is one of the first to be renovated as part of Transport for Wales Station Improvement Project, which identifies unused spaces in stations that can be brought back to use for community and enterprise purposes. A vacant room at the front of Llandudno Station will be refurbished to create a space for Creating Enterprise – a not-for-profit organisation focussing on helping local people into empl...

One Way or Another, Everything Changes The following is excerpted from “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein. Copyright © 2014 by Naomi Klein. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Most projections of climate change presume that future changes—greenhouse gas emissions, temperature increases and effects such as sea level rise—will happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will lead to a given amount of...

‘Make a change’ initiative to support school children launched 10th January 2021 In a weekend just as children prepare for their return to school, albeit it will be online whilst the lockdown in Gibraltar continues, members of the rugby team Rock Scorpions have launched an initiative to assist home learning. Under the banner “make a change” the club has formed the Scorpions Rugby Collective Network, an initiative asking people to donate their old working laptops. Inspired by Alexa Ti...

Don’t overspend at the expense of future generations: Kotak SECTIONS Share Synopsis “We must also be clear that we are all borrowing from the future generations,” Kotak said in his note to employees. “This encompasses both spends, with governments having spent huge amounts of money, as also the climate. We owe it to the future generations that we do not overspend on their account just for protecting our lives alone.” Mumbai: Billionaire banker Uday Kotak has cautioned against over-spe...

This year – 2020 – has been shocking. If I try to find a silver lining, I think it might be this – that finally, the need for effective planning to address long-term problems has come under the spotlight around the world. A pandemic planning committee had been scrapped six months before coronavirus hit the UK – despite the fact that the threat from a pandemic had been known for some time. Similarly, an early warning programme to alert the government in the United States to pandemics wa...

Graphic Online BY: David Apinga 705 Lucky Soglo is a Youth Leader for Health in Ghana. He does not only assist in feeding the soul as a pastor but takes an interest in the mental health of people, having graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. His interest in volunteering and the holistic wellbeing of people has culminated into vibrant health advocacy. His zeal got boosted after participating in a Youth Leaders for Health Advocacy t...

  A delegation from Young Health Advocates Ghana (YHAG), a national network of young people working to prevent HIV among young Ghanaians under the auspices of Hope for Future Generations on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, paid a courtesy call on the Presidential Advisor on HIV in Ghana, Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi. The delegation led by the Executive Director of Hope for Future Generations, Mrs. Cecilia Senoo and the National President for YHAG Ms. Priscilla Addo was to formally introduce the work ...

DEESIDES Christmas card winner has been chosen after a unique design. The Leader previously reported that Alyn and Deeside representatives launched the annual Christmas card competition, but with a difference. The winning design featured the nativity scene and was drawn by Ellie Colecliffe, age 10 from Saltney Ferry C. P. School. Ellie’s card will be sent to residents in the constituency as well as further afield to the UK Labour leader Keir Starmer and Wales’ First Minister Mark Dr...

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Featured pages Featured pages Update Featured pages Featured pages Photo credit: Matt Gibson/ Flickr. "The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say - we will never forgive you." – Greta Thunberg (2019) The COVID-19 virus has largely spared the young but the economic shock that follows will not. Unemployment is set to be the scourge of 2021 across many economies, with  Millennials an...