With live sports action absent from the world’s TV screens, and as fans suffer through prolonged withdrawal symptoms, leave it to Dana White to be the first guy to seriously shake up the status quo. White is president of the
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What can China do to save its economy?
The Covid-19 pandemic is threatening to choke the life out of all major economies. In response, governments have turned to the oxygen of stimulus measures to rescue jobs and businesses. The United States set up a US$2 trillion (S$2.8 trillion)
COMMENTARY: Drug-resistant superbugs are the other thing keeping researchers up at night
With the world’s attention on COVID-19, I believe that now is the time to talk about another pandemic that’s been happening right under our noses: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). When infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses or fungi stop responding to
COMMENTARY: Are we all ‘in this together’? The playing field isn’t level when it comes to sacrifice
There’s a slogan that all of us have been exposed to for several weeks — or really, what feels to many of us like several years. “We’re all in this together.” For many Canadians, the slogan itself is a source
Stabbed dolls, dead birds found in disturbing scene at small-town U.S. park
Warning: Details and photos featured in this story may be disturbing to some. Reader discretion is advised. Stabbed dolls, dead birds and other disturbing objects have been found on a picnic table at a park in West Virginia, prompting an
‘I just want to survive’: Canadian greenhouses struggling with economic reality of COVID-19
Nick Zannis is thankful his greenhouse established online sales five years ago, now that the retail world has been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. The doors of Golden Acre Home and Garden in Calgary are allowed to be
COMMENTARY: Hoping to go to a concert or festival? Maybe not this year — or next
WARNING: This story contains a lot more questions than answers. The list of festival cancellations is kilometres long: SXSW, Glastonbury, Roskilde, Rock am Ring, Wacken, Osheaga, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Festival d’été de Québec, the Great Escape and dozens more. The