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Highly skilled younger workers should comprise the majority of Australia’s migration post-pandemic, a new report from policy think tank The Grattan Institute has suggested.

The Grattan Institute says the government’s Business Investment and Innovation Program should be abolished, because “few investors are financing projects that would not otherwise occur, or providing entrepreneurial acumen that will benefit the Australian community”. It argues the government’s Business Investment and Innovation Program visa-holders bring “fewer benefits to Australia than skilled migrants selected through other streams, because they are older, speak little English, and ...

"By 2025, 100% of enterprises around the globe will be utilizing cloud technology. Cloud is the future of the ICT industry and the foundation for enterprises' digital transformation. Developers are the soul of the industry” - Richard Yu, Executive Director of Huawei, and CEO of Huawei's Cloud BU and Consumer Business Group

Print this article As people continue to venture from their homes and get vaccinated, companies are eyeing when and how to return to the office. Some are planning to return in the coming months. Many considerations go into a return to in-office work, the foremost being vaccinations. All adults became eligible to receive vaccines across the country in late April, but some additional calculus comes into play. For example, each vaccine has a different amount of time that it takes to become fully...

Funding provided to help develop, understand and use Indigenous laws, build governance structures  May 20, 2021  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge at the University of Alberta is one of 21 recipients in the second round of funding in the Justice Partnership and Innovation Program (JPIP) offered by Canada’s Department of Justice. For Hadley Friedland, assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at UAlberta, the recognition is especially rewarding as ...

Author of the article: Submitted Publishing date: May 19, 2021  •  4 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Article content Dr. Jeff Schoenau isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. He owns and operates a grain farm near Central Butte, Saskatchewan and has been working as a soil scientist for the University of Saskatchewan (USask) for 33 years. In a paper published today in the Canadian Journal of Soil Science, PhD student Noabur Rahman, Schoenau and colleagues Drs. Derek Peak and Ryan ...

The study, which offers recommendations for improving fertilizer use and increasing crop yields for farmers, builds on previous studies Schoenau and Peak have completed as collaborators at Canadian Light Source (CLS) at USask. Schoenau considers some of their work done on the HXMA and VLS-PGM beamlines at the CLS to be ground-breaking. “There are not a lot of folks that have used these techniques to study the fate of some of these nutrient elements in the soil environment as applied in the...

Why Ghana needs an Innovation and Startup Act By Brian Dzansi 3 HOURS AGO National legislation - startup-act is the emerging innovation strategy most countries are adapting to create an enabling environment that supports innovative start-ups and drives local economic growth. The disruptions to the global value chains by the COVID-19 pandemic is a wakeup call to all countries of the urgency to support local innovations and entrepreneurs towards recovery of local economies. Tunisia led the way as...

1 Breda, the Netherlands – argenx (Euronext & Nasdaq: ARGX), a global immunology company committed to improving the lives of people suffering from severe autoimmune diseases and cancer, today reported financial results for the first quarter 2021 and provided a business update. “We’ve had a strong start to 2021 with the acceptance for review of the BLA and J-MAA for efgartigimod in gMG by the regulatory agencies in the U.S. and Japan. The submissions in China and the EU are on track and we...

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event, which brings unique challenges to businesses across the territories. CanNor has been there to support...