Kamala Harris Canadian connection celebrated as she makes history stateside
Last Updated Jan 19, 2021 at 3:15 pm MDT
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
MONTREAL (CityNews) – Kamala Harris will become the first woman and first person of colour to be vice-president of the United States Wednesday.
It’s a milestone that her former Montreal school, Westmount High School, is celebrating.
The school is hosting a big party Wednesday to celebrate–the inauguration will be streamed in the classrooms for students to watch and the school is set to receive a few items from the United States Consulate General.
الإعلان الأمريكي بخصوص مغربية الصحراء يوزع على الدول ال193 الأعضاء بالأمم المتحدة
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China Tech Ban Mirrors 1980s Attempts To Destroy Japanese Competition Comments
With just days left in office, the Trump administration has blacklisted an additional nine Chinese companies, adding them to a long list of firms on the U.S. military blacklist and escalating the trade war on Beijing as the U.S. attempts to suppress China’s economic rise.
The Department of Defense claimed that those on its list are secretly owned or controlled by the Chinese military and that it was “determined to highlight and counter” threats that “appear to be civilian entities” but are not. Those companies are now likely partially blocked from the U.S. market and from doing business with American companies.
Arts and Culture in 2020
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By Prisca Sam-Duru
It is hard to point at a particular period or year in modern history that has shaped humanity the way the year 2020 has. No thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In addition to the global crisis, insecurity, the ENDSARS protest, poor economy, corruption in form of looting of the nation’s treasury by politicians, and hunger, made the ended year a most challenging one for Nigerians. All this no doubt, impacted negatively on every sector, leaving the art and culture sector, the hardest hit.
By the end of 2019, most art and culture producers and promoters had strategized on how to improve upon their earlier performances in 2020, but the arrival of the Coronavirus which is still ravaging the world punctuated their plans.