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HESE ARE anxious days for Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister. The country is due to welcome tourists from around 35 countries from May 15th, but hotel bookings are looking thin and covid-19 lingers. Unless tourism recovers, the economy will shrink for a second year.
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There is some good news, though. On April 23rd
S&
P, a rating agency, upgraded the country’s sovereign rating to
BB. (That is still below investment grade, which officials expect to reach next year.) The agency also upgraded the country’s four big banks, though all remain in junk territory because of high levels of non-performing loans. These came to about 33% of the banking sector’s loan book, before provisions the legacy of the debt crisis of 2010-18.
Dependent on social media s marketing power, small businesses worry over iOS changes
by Denise Paglinawan, The Canadian Press
Posted May 5, 2021 4:38 pm EDT
Last Updated May 5, 2021 at 4:44 pm EDT
TORONTO Like many small business owners, Siuleen Leibl relies on marketing through apps like Facebook and Instagram to reach more customers.
“Social media is huge for our business in terms of advertising, just to be able to get the word out about us,” said the owner of Milksmith Ice Cream in Winnipeg.
However, some small business owners say that effectiveness is now in doubt after Apple’s latest changes to its smartphone software.
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TORONTO - Like many small business owners, Siuleen Leibl relies on marketing through apps like Facebook and Instagram to reach more customers.
In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020 file photo, the logo of Apple is illuminated at a store in the city center of Munich, Germany. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Matthias Schrader
TORONTO - Like many small business owners, Siuleen Leibl relies on marketing through apps like Facebook and Instagram to reach more customers. Social media is huge for our business in terms of advertising, just to be able to get the word out about us, said the owner of Milksmith Ice Cream in Winnipeg.
Corporate Citizen: New Perspectives on the Globalized Rule of Law
. Oonagh E. Fitzgerald (eds). CIGI Press. 2020.
Texaco Petroleum (since acquired by Chevron Corporation in 2001) has been accused of discharging a staggering 16 billion gallons of toxic water into Ecuador’s local waterways between 1964 and 1992, devastating both the natural environment and the way of life for Indigenous populations. Since 1993, 47 Ecuadorian plaintiffs who represented some 30,000 Ecuadorian Indigenous villagers have pursued a lawsuit for this pollution in New York and then Ecuador, the latter of which culminated in a unanimous judgment from the Ecuador Supreme Court ordering Chevron to pay 9.5 billion US dollars in damages – a judgment that Chevron did not accept.
National security threats are changing, but Canada is mired in conventional thinking
We have entered an era in which national security is not just about protecting the state against adversaries, but also against dangers that have a direct impact on the daily lives of people, write Aaron Shull and Wesley Wark.
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We ve entered an era in which national security is not just about protecting the state against adversaries
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 30
David McGuinty, chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, submitted NSICOP s annual report to Parliament on April 12.(Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)