Month: March 2022

Advocates Celebrate PBS Listing of a Rare Breast Cancer Treatment in Federal Budget

March 29, 2022
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The Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) is celebrating the listing of Trodelvy, a treatment for a rare form of breast cancer on the Pharmaceutical Budget Listing (PBS) as part of the 2022/23 Federal Budget. “For the first time, this drug gives hope to many young women, extending their life expectancy and providing an opportunity to…

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Real Estate Investor and Best-Selling Author Discusses Impact of War, Bureaucracy, and the Pandemic on US Property Markets

March 29, 2022
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In a wide-ranging interview with The Epoch Times, renowned real estate investor, music composer, and bestselling author Philip Nicozisis shared his insights on the impact of the pandemic and the Ukraine war on commercial and residential property markets, while venturing into loftier topics like the importance of free markets and the preservation of civil liberties….

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Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Canada’s 12-year F-35 Odyssey

March 29, 2022
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Then-defence minister Peter MacKay climbed into a fake F-35 cockpit before smiling for the cameras and flashing a thumbs up. The date was July 16, 2010, and MacKay had just announced that Canada was planning to buy a fleet of the stealth fighters. Fast-forward to Monday and the scene was very different. There was no…

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Conservatives Support 2030 Emissions-Reduction Target Set by Harper, Not Trudeau

March 29, 2022
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Canada’s Conservatives continue to reject the target the Liberal government set for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, as the party searches for a new leader who will decide its approach to tackle climate change. On Tuesday, the federal government released its plan for how it hopes to achieve its latest goal, which is to…

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Los Angeles Extends Project Roomkey Program

March 29, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles is extending its “Project Roomkey” program, which temporarily shelters unhoused people in hotels and motels, for another three months. On March 29, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to authorize $10. 6 million to extend Project Roomkey at the Mayfair Hotel and the L.A. Grand Hotel in Downtown LA, as well…

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Iowa to Kill 1.5 Million More Hens and Turkeys Because of Bird Flu

March 29, 2022
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DES MOINES, Iowa—Iowa agriculture officials announced two more bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks on Tuesday that will require the killing of more than 1.5 million hens and turkeys. One of the new outbreaks will lead to the killing of 1.5 million chickens at an egg-laying farm in Guthrie County, about 60 miles west of…

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Biden Signs Law Making Lynching a Federal Hate Crime

March 29, 2022
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President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the first anti-lynching legislation in U.S. history that would make the act a federal hate crime. “All right. It’s law,” Biden said shortly after he signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act at a desk in the White House Rose Garden alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, members of…

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Facebook Says ‘Bug’ Preventing Sharing of Shen Yun Ads

March 29, 2022
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In the days and weeks leading up to Shen Yun Performing Arts’ Australian tour, which kicks off in the country’s capital, Canberra, on March 31, fans and ticket-holders have reported that Facebook has restricted their ability to share the company’s ad posts on the social media platform. “Just so you know, I have tried twice…

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Australia Imposes First Magnitsky Sanctions

March 29, 2022
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Australia has announced it will sanction 14 Russians involved in the corruption uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky and those complicit in his subsequent mistreatment and death in the first use of the country’s new Magnitsky-styled laws. In a media release on March 29, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said this first tranche of sanctions would be…

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California’s New Boating Law Raises Costly Concerns Among Private Sector

March 29, 2022
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Owners of commercial harbor craft—like tugboats, ferries, and private charter boats—are expressing concern over California’s new regulation that requires commercial vessels to have cleaner engines. The regulation, which takes effect in 2023, sets stricter requirements for the types of engines—newer, less-polluting engines—allowed near California’s coast. The regulation will be rolled out in phases, whereby in…

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