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Upcoming Webinar: Predicting and Managing the Risks of Doing Business in China

25/12/2025despair

Please join us on Wednesday, July 12 at 12PM EDT for a webinar on Predicting and Managing the Risks of Doing Business in China.

As tensions between the US and China continue to build, what does this mean for US companies operating in China? Partners George Grammas and Ed Newberry will discuss the current political landscape, as well as provide insight on where things are headed and what you can do to mitigate risks and protect your relationships going forward. The discussion will help senior leaders and decision makers evaluate their current activities in China and determine whether they should

Google to block news in Canada over law on paying publishers

21/12/2025despair

[1/2]A Google logo is seen outside of the Google Store, where visitors can try phones and other products from the company, in New York City, New York, US, February 10, 2022. Picture taken February 10, 2022. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/ Photo files

OTTAWA, June 29 (Reuters) – Google said on Thursday it plans to block Canadian news on its platform in Canada, joining Facebook in escalating a campaign against a new law requiring payments to local news publishers.

Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) Google will remove links to Canadian news from search results and other products in Canada when the law takes effect in

Call for Canada to braid Indigenous rights with endangered species law

23/09/2025despair

Caribou from the Klinse-Za herd in northeastern BC graze in this handout photo. Line Giguere, Wildlife Infometrics.

Climbing caribou numbers in northeastern British Columbia prove that collaborations between Indigenous and colonial governments can reverse decades-long declines, but focus needs to shift to culturally meaningful recovery targets, a consortium of researchers and community members say in a new paper published this week in Science.

UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Clayton Lamb and West Moberly First Nation Chief Roland Willson co-lead the paper, Braiding Indigenous Rights and Endangered Species Lawalongside nine others for the influential journal.

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Ekinops’ SixSq announces updates to the Nuvla platform and marketplace legal framework for improved business enablement

19/09/2025despair

Ekinops’ SixSq announces updates to the Nuvla platform and marketplace legal framework for improved business enablement

PR Newswire

PARIS, May 23, 2023

PARIS, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — EKINOPS (Euronext Paris – FR0011466069 – EKI)a leading network access and virtualization specialist, today announced important updates to the legal framework for the Nuvla platform and marketplace, provided by its subsidiary SixSq SA.

Ekinops Logo (PRNewsfoto/Ekinops)

Nuvla is a proven B2B SaaS digital platform and marketplace for industrialization and automation of containerized edge applications and device management. Nuvla

Calls grow for Quebec laws to fight sexual violence in high schools after new allegations

14/09/2025despair

More than a dozen parents and students alleging sexual violence at some Quebec high schools came together Friday to call for a law to prevent and fight the issue in secondary schools.

At a news conference Friday in Montreal, several young women and parents — some holding signs reading “No means no” and “#sexualassault awareness” — took turns speaking about their experiences, denouncing the way their school administration and boards handled allegations of sexual assault.

They, along with several politicians present, implored Education Minister Bernard Drainville to do more to clamp down on the problem.

“It’s been a while that

NCAA rules legalized gambling with tough penalties

07/08/2025despair

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More than 40 athletes from Iowa and Iowa State could face discipline from both law enforcement and the NCAA for impermissible online betting.

The NCAA consequences could be far worse than the legal ones.

While the penalty for betting on sporting events in the state of Iowa for individuals under the age of 21 is a fine of US$645, a college athlete could be sidelined for most of a season because of NCAA rules.

Five years since a Supreme Court decision paved the way for states to legalize betting on sporting events, more than half have

Resignation of an executor.

16/05/2025despair

At times an executor was appointed by a testator in their will and the executor was ill equipped or unwilling to act as executor. In these circumstances, it is necessary for an executor to formally renounce their role as executor.

Quite often executors are confused if they can resign as an executor of a Will or how to go about it.

Renouncing an execution is a formal legal process and involves lodging documents with the Supreme Court of Victoria (or relevant court in other states) after the death of the testator. The documents should be drafted by a lawyer and

Do ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws apply?

14/05/2025despair

Correction: Andrew Lester is 84 years old. An earlier version of this article contained incorrect information.

An 84-year-old white man was charged with armed assault Monday days after shooting a Black teenager whose family members said went to the wrong house.

Two days after 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot in Kansas City, Missouri, Kaylin Gillis, 20, was shot and killed by a homeowner in upstate New York while in a car that mistakenly turned into the wrong driveway.

The shootings by homeowners probably will renew debates about the nation’s patchwork of “stand your ground” laws, which govern the use of