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Prime Minister Theresa May is withholding a Home Office report on foreign funding of British terrorist organizations because exposing the truth could sour relations with the UK’s major trading and security partner, Saudi Arabia. The report, commissioned to investigate foreign states funding extremist groups in the UK, has yet to be made public despite being […]
GUEST: One of the hottest areas for VC investment at the moment is AI/machine learning — that includes artificial intelligence algorithms, related machine learning systems, neural networks, and back-end processing to produce insightful and self-learning applications. As Nvidia’s CEO recently said: Software may be eating the world, but AI is going to eat software AI […]
ChargePoint operates over 35,000 charging spots, and has partnered with the likes of Volkswagen and BMW to expand its network, which is currently the world’s largest. ChargePoint doesn’t show signs of slowing down anytime soon, either. The EV charging network just announced the close of a round of funding worth $ 125 million. Earlier in […]
This week Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott announced at the International Confederation of Midwives Congress that the federal government will launch new funding initiatives to improve access to midwifery services in First Nation and Inuit communities. CBC | Health News
Enlarge / Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt delivered the press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Photo by Cheriss May) (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) An independent review of ARPA-E and a graduate study program […]
The aging infrastructure at the largest US nuclear waste site at Hanford, Washington is breaking down, making incidents involving the release of radiation more likely, according to the senior Energy Department official at the site. The Hanford site, located along the Columbia River near Richland, Washington, stores nuclear waste dating back to the early days […]
Delta Airlines has become quite the bizarre, censorious and politically confused art critic, having found itself in the center of two controversies overs the last year. First, it chose to screen on its flights a version of Carol without any women kissing. Then, as a seeming compensatory corrective, it decided to also remove an old Chris Rock […]
The province says it will fund new front-line health workers and distribute nearly 80,000 naloxone kits to strengthen its opioid strategy. CBC | Health News
A group of organizations tackling homelessness in Calgary have received $ 750,000 from the provincial government to hire co-ordinators who will help streamline services for Calgary’s homeless. CBC | Health News
WHEN Donald Trump announced America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement on June 1st, he spelled out that it would no longer contribute to the Green Climate Fund. This is a UN initiative to use rich countries’ money to bring climate finance to developing ones. But even if the fund were going swimmingly, public-sector finance […]
