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Article content While French language courses are shutting down in many parts of Quebec, Liberal MP Jean-Yves Duclos, the Trudeau government’s lieutenant in the province, says he’s “concerned” by the fact newcomers cannot have access to francization courses because of “budgetary restrictions” imposed by the Legault government. In a letter to Quebec Immigration and French […]
In line with national trends, startups in and around the nation’s capital continue putting their faith in not making every employee go to one office daily. Founders cited benefits like flexibility in a recent survey of the 2024 RealLIST Startups conducted by Technical.ly. Remote and hybrid work has helped with hiring and work-life balance, wrote […]
South Africa-founded golf management startup Tagmarshal has raised a multi-million dollar round of Series A investment to fund continued growth in staff, innovation, and new clients. Disrupt Africa first reported on Tagmarshal in February 2015, but since then the company has raised capital and relocated to the United States (US), where it has established itself […]
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is making waves in the tech world. The company is in talks with investors for a new funding round that could value it at a staggering $40 billion. This move comes just months after xAI raised $6 billion at a $24 billion valuation. The AI race is heating up […]
In a strategic move to address the growing demands for advanced AI infrastructure, GMI Cloud, a Silicon Valley-based GPU cloud provider, has raised $82 million in Series A funding. Led by Headline Asia and supported by notable partners like Banpu Next and Wistron Corporation, this round brings GMI’s total capital to over $93 million. The […]
Summit talks on how to mobilize the billions of dollars needed to halt biodiversity loss this decade were stuck on Monday. Countries were at an impasse over how to fund conservation and other key decisions as the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit entered its second week on Monday, with nations pledging millions of dollars rather than […]
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have announced budget reforms for NHS Credit: Shutterstock: Martin Suker A new budget will be approved to hopefully quash some of the negative renown attached to the NHS in what Labour ministers term as a system that might be “broken not beaten.” Prime Minister, Keir Starmer says that the budget […]
Ahead of Election Day, Baltimore is sticking with the basics. Registered voters in the city, like most across the country, will use paper ballots to cast votes on Nov. 5 or during the early voting period. Early voting has already begun and will run at eight sites until Halloween on Thursday. There’s a lot of […]
The US has pledged to deepen its cooperation with long-time ally the Philippines by committing US$8 million in funding to help modernise its coastguard as China’s rival maritime claims with the island nation press on. The funding would be used to support the Philippine coastguard’s “infrastructure enhancements, training programme development and resource acquisition and management […]
28th October 2024 Author: Aleksandra Cupriak Over 50 rural MPs are urging the government to confirm funding for rural Gigabit speed internet ahead of the Budget, amid reports of the money being redirected from the countryside. A letter supported by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and written by former secretary of state […]