Protesting farmers are having to fight off the radical right, conspiracy theorists and climate sceptics

Dec 16, 2024 04:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Politics

Thousands of farmers travelled to London on November 19 to protest the new governments first budget and its imposition of new inheritance tax rules. Nearly a month later, on December 12, there was another protest, this...

Why Scottish salmon’s rebrand may end up harming the integrity of a top export and hurting producers

Dec 16, 2024 04:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

Scottish farmed salmon was the UKs top food export last year, ending up in restaurants and on dinner tables all over the world. But also in 2023, the industry trade body Salmon Scotland sought to drop the word farmed from...

FBI director guides the agency in confronting complex international threats, investigating federal crimes and running 55 field offices

Dec 16, 2024 04:58 am UTC| Insights & Views

Mention the FBI, and many older Americans will likely think of a time when the agency was run by J. Edgar Hoover, who spent much of his nearly half-century tenure at the agency harassing political dissidents and abusing...

More spending and weaker revenue hits budget bottom line in some years: Chalmers

Dec 16, 2024 04:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

Wednesdays mid-year budget update will downgrade company tax receipts by $8.5 billion over the four years to 2027-28, and show slippage in the bottom line in some years of the forward estimates, Treasurer Jim Chalmers...

US under Trump Series

Trump’s tariff threat is a sign that Canada should be diversifying beyond the U.S.

Dec 16, 2024 04:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced a 25 per cent tariff on Canada and Mexico if border control and illegal drugs coming into the U.S. arent curtailed. Both federal and provincial leaders have been...

US under Trump Series

How the Elon Musk-Vivek Ramaswamy DOGE initiative could help Americans dodge red tape

Dec 16, 2024 04:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Donald Trumps proposed new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is already earning praise and criticism in the United States weeks before the president-elects inauguration. So far, theres only vague information on...

Air pollution has contributed to 16 million deaths in India in the past decade – new study

Dec 14, 2024 07:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Several schools in Delhi close during winter for at least two weeks because of high air pollution levels. Every winter, widespread crop burning in north India and weather conditions add to the already high air pollution...