Monthly Archive: April 2018

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Russians protest garbage dumps blighting Moscow region

MOSCOW — Large protests have taken place in nine cities and towns in the Moscow region over pollution from landfills and against government plans to build a garbage incinerator. Public dismay with refuse disposal around the Russian capital increased sharply in March after scores of children in the town of Volokolamsk were sickened with symptoms […]

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AP FACT CHECK: Facebook’s reckoning, Trump’s agitation

WASHINGTON — Facebook’s days of reckoning in Washington and President Donald Trump’s agitation with perceived political enemies made for a week of grabby headlines from two ubiquitous forces in American life — the social media colossus and Trump’s Twitter account. A look at the veracity of some of the claims this past week from Trump […]

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Three insurers slapped with stiff penalties by the AMF

On April 12, Quebec regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers, announced that it has imposed administrative penalties totaling $2.1 million on three life insurers for dubious practices related to the distribution of products to...

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Federal government launches expert panel on sustainable finance

The federal government has announced the creation of an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, to be chaired by Tiff Macklem, Dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Life Insurance Blog

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Marsh names new CEO for Canada

Move comes as another CEO is named in a separate market Life Insurance Blog