Category Archives: Business
City planners are questioning the point of parking garages
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the better. As a result, cities were built up in ways that devoted valuable space to storing cars, did…
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s foreign policy explained
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. January was a busy diplomatic month for South Africa. The country hosted Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US treasury secretary Janet Yellen. Josep Borrell, vice-president of the European Commission, was also in town. The biggest talking point,…
Revisit these conversations for Black History Month
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. February is Black History Month, and this year the theme is Resistance. The podcast episodes on this playlist showcase some of our favourites from The Conversation Canada’s audio content related to Black history, from our flagship podcast, Don’t…
A democracy can’t easily penalize lies by politicians
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. George Santos is not the first politician to have lied, but the fables he told to get elected to Congress may be in a class by themselves. Historian Sean Wilentz remarked that while embellishments happen, Santos’ lies are…
to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is available at our fingertips right next to a ceaseless torrent of low-quality, distracting, false and manipulative information. The…
Yakuza battle Chinese gangs for control of Japan’s criminal underworld
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On the afternoon of October 16 last year a brawl erupted between two groups of gangsters in a restaurant on the 58th floor of the Sunshine 60 high-rise building in Ikebukuro, a central neighbourhood of Tokyo. A group…
US debt default could trigger dollar’s collapse – and severely erode America’s political and economic might
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. It’s a case of déjà vu all over again on the debt ceiling debate. Republicans, who regained control of the House of Representatives in November 2022, are threatening to not allow an increase in the debt limit unless…
The sharing economy can expose you to liability risks – here’s how to protect yourself
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Sharing platforms have become a regular part of our lives for travel and daily needs, especially for young people. In 2018, Airbnb reported that the majority of its users were millennials. And with the ongoing cost of living…
Water ATMs were introduced in Ghana
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Universal, safe and reliable water access is a pressing need in the global south. One-quarter of the world’s population don’t currently have access to clean drinking water. In Ghana, about 5 million people out of a total population…
Paramedics could sound early warnings of child abuse or neglect – but they need support and more training
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Child abuse and neglect is, unfortunately, a far more common occurrence in Australia than many people realise. In Australia in 2020–21 (the most recent figures available), there were more than half a million notifications to child protection services….