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24/02/22
Author: 
Douglas Todd
Housing developers try to make sure they don’t sacrifice future financial returns by flooding the market with housing during just one period, says housing professor Cameron Murray. PHOTO BY MARK VAN MANEN /PNG

Feb 23, 2022

A retired developer says the goal of the property industry is to complete new housing supply when it can maximize profits.

“The real-estate development business is very much about market timing,” said Arny Wise, who spent his career planning and developing scores of housing projects in Toronto and Vancouver.

 

23/02/22
Author: 
Wenonah Hauter
Smoke stacks - GETTY IMAGES

Feb. 14, 2022

The industry is wildly fudging the numbers to make itself look like a major job creator. We shouldn’t be fooled.

For years now, any discussion about climate action or the need to move off fossil fuels has run headlong into a familiar quandary: The industries fueling the climate crisis create good jobs, often in areas of the country where finding work that can support a family is incredibly difficult. 

23/02/22
Author: 
Sharon Zhang
Supporters hold pro-union signs in support of workers of two Seattle Starbucks locations that announced plans to unionize, during an evening rally at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, Washington, January 25, 2022. JASON REDMOND / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Feb. 22, 2022

On Monday, Starbucks Workers United announced that they had officially surpassed 100 locations filing for union representation, marking a milestone despite the company stepping up its union-busting efforts.

“It’s official – we reached the 100 store mark,” the union tweeted. “103 stores (to be exact) have filed petitions with the NLRB to join the Starbucks Workers United movement!”

23/02/22
Author: 
William Rivers Pitt
A respiratory therapist checks on a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Rush University Medial Center on January 31, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois. SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES

Feb. 22, 2022

As the world crouches in anticipation of whatever fresh hell is preparing to jump from the Russia/Ukraine border, some seem to have forgotten that COVID-19 is not yet over. There have been more than 28,000 COVID deaths in the U.S. over the last two weeks, and more than 1.2 million new infections over that same span. The fact that this represents significant progress in the fight against the virus only underscores the horror of the body count. Were this pandemic a shooting war, those numbers would be bluntly unendurable.

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