Ontario Securities Commissionâs Investor Advisory Panel Releases 2020 Annual Report Date
06/05/2021
The Investor Advisory Panel (the IAP) today released its 2020 Annual Report summarizing its activities, submissions, consultations, and meetings during the calendar year.
In 2020, the IAP focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on retail investors, and the implications of several recommendations made by Ontario’s Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce in its interim and final reports. Additionally, the IAP continued to focus on what it considers to be critical areas of investor protection, including: credentialing, competencies and misleading titles; discontinuing embedded commissions such as deferred sales charges (DSCs); addressing the risks of syndicated mortgages; implementing the Client Focused Reforms; strengthening the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI); understanding the impact of disruptive trends in the investment space on retail i
Authoritarian Tech Is On the Rise | Opinion Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
, journalist On 4/28/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
Life in a refugee camp is an unimaginable horror.
It s the reality of thousands of people who fled war-torn countries, poverty, hunger and sometimes death. Greek refugee camps are often overpopulated, with scarce access to water, heat, food, or toilets, set up over contaminated soil. They are the closest thing to hell on Earth.
The pandemic worsened camps on several fronts. There has been a serious uptick in surveillance technologies administered to refugees since the pandemic started. Not only are refugees detained in inhumane conditions, but they are also subjected to strict surveillance inside and outside the camps, serving as guinea pigs for authoritarian technologies that are then used on the general population.
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In a six-page letter addressed to Mayor John Tory and four city councillors, Mike Layton, Gord Perks, Joe Cressy and Kristyn Wong-Tam, the lawyers say they are prepared to take legal action if the city dismantles encampments.(Paul Smith/CBC)
A group of lawyers in Toronto urged the city on Wednesday to call off its plans to clear encampments, saying such evictions would violate the rights of unhoused people living in parks during the pandemic.
In a six-page letter addressed to Mayor John Tory and Coun. Mike Layton, Gord Perks, Joe Cressy and Kristyn Wong-Tam, the lawyers said they are prepared to take legal action if the city proceeds to dismantle the encampments.
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry has clearly become a spark for international discussions about racism and the state of Britain’s royal family. And it has brought new attention to another issue as well.
Meghan’s revelation of her mental anguish during and after her first pregnancy, including thoughts of suicide so significant that she feared being left alone and that the palace had been a barrier to the help she needed sounded painfully familiar for many.
The experience of life-threatening pregnancy complications, mental as well as physical, is strikingly common. If it has not happened to you, it has almost certainly happened to someone you care about, though you may not know it.