When the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was officially declared last March, companies across most sectors in Canada buckled up for a bumpy ride ahead, filled mostly with uncertainty. While some industries have been spared financial hits due to being declared an essential service, the automotive sector was not one of them.
According to a recent report from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, automotive sales in 2020 fell to their lowest level in more than a decade. Last year, approximately 1.54 million cars and trucks were sold in Canada, down just under 20 per cent from the previous year. In the spring, many were fearing even worse numbers since sales dropped 75 per cent in April alone.
Even as the ban improved the sex ratio, females born – in 34 states and Union Territories that enacted the ban – were 2.3 percentage points, 3.5 percentage points and 3.2 percentage points less likely to complete Class 10, Class 12 and enter university, relative to males, the authors wrote.
“We often end up swapping one kind of discrimination for another,” Sharma told
IndiaSpend. “Pre-natal discrimination here is swapped for post-natal discrimination because son preference is so deeply ingrained in our population.”
The ban on sex-selection abortions has no effect on higher-income households, Sharma said. “These households are able to circumvent the ban and continue to sex select, and when they do have daughters, they do not discriminate against them.”
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A burgeoning Ottawa cleantech firm that’s already landed Shopify as a customer for its “carbon-capture” technology that aims to reduce greenhouse gases is relocating most of its employees to Nova Scotia, the company said this week.
Launched in 2019, Planetary Hydrogen has created a patented system that speeds up the natural process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dubbed SeaOH2, the system uses renewable electricity to split ocean water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as electrolysis.
Adding mineral salt to the electrolysis cell creates an atmosphere-scrubbing compound called mineral hydroxide as a waste product. The hydroxide binds with carbon dioxide, effectively “capturing” the gas while producing hydrogen – an increasingly sought-after green alternative to fossil fuels – as a potentially lucrative byproduct.
A burgeoning Ottawa cleantech firm that’s already landed Shopify as a customer for its “carbon-capture” technology that aims to reduce greenhouse gases is relocating most of its employees to Nova Scotia, the company said this week.
Launched in 2019, Planetary Hydrogen has created a patented system that speeds up the natural process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dubbed SeaOH2, the system uses renewable electricity to split ocean water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as electrolysis.
Adding mineral salt to the electrolysis cell creates an atmosphere-scrubbing compound called mineral hydroxide as a waste product. The hydroxide binds with carbon dioxide, effectively “capturing” the gas while producing hydrogen – an increasingly sought-after green alternative to fossil fuels – as a potentially lucrative byproduct.