News by subject: AVO

The Construction Industry Council of Westchester & Hudson Valley, Inc., a leading business trade organization, is commending Gov. Kathy Hochul for "demonstrating a keen understanding" of New York State's needs, as outlined in her 2022 State of the...

The Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative (CPMHC) is urging the federal government to keep its promise to ensure timely access to perinatal mental health services as it develops its response to the Omicron variant....

Top executives at Canada's grocery giants have been paid millions in bonuses while continuing to deny pandemic pay to frontline essential grocery workers. ...

The Government of Alberta has indicated they will make a decision about the future of the RCMP in Alberta this spring, and the Department of Justice and Solicitor General will be holding a series of events to inform that decision. To hear directly...

A majority of Virginians support implementing campaign finance reform, according to a recent poll by the Wason Center for Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport University. An overwhelming 78% of Virginians support reducing money from big campaign...

Since August 2020,¹ a group of racist, antisemitic white supremacists has purported to operate under the name, "National Justice Party" (NJP).² The NJP essentially copied the name of the Justice Party, which was created in 2011³ and stands for...

The LIBRE Initiative, a national Latino organization, is running several highway billboard advertisements calling on lawmakers to secure the border and support the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act....

On January 22nd, 2022 NAAB Radio brings U.S. Behind The Walls (https://www.usbehindthewalls.org) to gather politicians and heavy hitters to make a mark on lawmakers in hopes to bring in more mitigation for prison reform laws. Nation of Islam's...

Shen Haixiong, president of China Media Group (CMG), extended New Year greetings in an address to overseas audiences via CGTN, China Radio International, and through the internet on January 1, 2022.   CMG President Shen...

The public health measures announced Monday by Premier Ford come too late and, as a result, are insufficient to protect the public and the hospital system from total collapse, says the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO). "Premier Doug...

We can't keep doing this. Two weeks to flatten the curve for the health care system is quickly turning into two years for small businesses affected by lockdowns and other restrictions. Closing gyms, indoor dining, and arts and recreation venues is a...

"We cannot afford to continue pretending like nothing is wrong in a world full of better-than-them attitudes and arrogant behaviors built on erroneous and deceptive history. We cannot focus on the search of a planet conducive for living to the...

As 2022 begins, the world's attention is focused on two crises in desperate need of a coordinated response: the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. But the United States and China, the world's two most powerful nations, have begun to focus...

The coroner's preliminary report received by the family could not establish an exact cause for the sudden death of director Jean-Marc Vallée on December 25 in Quebec, Canada. However, the report states that Mr. Vallée's death was not caused by the...

A news report by China.org.cn on the Chinese character of 2021:   "Zhi," meaning "governance," was chosen as the Chinese character of 2021. In the "Daodejing" by ancient Chinese thinker Laozi, it says, "Governing a large...

The decision by the CDC to raise the travel level for cruise is particularly perplexing considering that cases identified on cruise ships consistently make up a very slim minority of the total population onboard?far fewer than on land?and the...

This year has brought a spate of grave violations against children in both protracted and new conflicts, UNICEF warned today. From...

The National Coalition for Access to Autism Services (NCAAS), the voice of the nation's premier autism treatment providers, today welcomed language in the National Defense Authorization Act that seeks to improve the analysis of data collected from...

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), together with Jeffrey Singer, M.D., has filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the conviction of Dr. Xiulu Ruan, who is now serving a 21-year sentence in federal...

Decriminalize Sex Work, a national advocacy nonprofit organization, and its allies are recognizing 2021 as the best year yet for passing good sex-work legislation. These legislative accomplishments are important steps toward their ultimate goal of...

Border encounter figures for President Biden's first year in office are out and they are alarming. For the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, which encompassed the first nine months of the Biden presidency, 1.74 million people were encountered at...

Unemployed Professors has announced the release of their latest resource, "Ways to Prevent Burnout During College Finals." This resource provides information on ways to prevent burnout during college finals by providing helpful tips on how to reduce...

Today, the office of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, named Captain Judy Cameron as one of the newest appointees to the Order of Canada. "On behalf of everyone at Air Canada, we salute and applaud Judy on...

Domestic and international bookings are on the rise, especially for the second half of 2022. Hospitality vendors are welcoming guests with promises of increased cleanliness and contactless transactions. But much remains uncertain about upcoming...

What a year for EyeCare4Kids in 2021! The organization, which specializes in helping underprivileged children and families receive professional eye care services and eyeglasses, saw substantial growth in the number of those served and expansion of...

A conference "Ukraine - Donbass: possible domino effect" examining the escalation of the conflict in South East of Ukraine was held in Verona, Italy on December, 18, 2021. Experts examined the possibilities of further escalations that could...

A conference "Ukraine - Donbass: possible domino effect" examining the escalation of the conflict in South East of Ukraine was held in Verona, Italy on December, 18, 2021. Experts examined the possibilities of further escalations that could...

Thank you to the thousands of doctors, nurses and other health-care professionals working across Ontario today and throughout the holidays, providing care in all sectors of our health system as we face yet another and more serious surge in COVID-19....

This Christmas Eve, people across the country are gearing up for a day filled with family and joy. Christmas is one of the most important Christian holidays, marking the birth of Jesus Christ. Throughout the season, people will decorate the house and...

This is a news report from Beijing Review: On the third floor of the Gubei Civic Center in Shanghai's Hongqiao Subdistrict, a small group of residents are discussing how to use smart technologies to make senior citizens' life more convenient. In...

An interview with reporter Sun Wanlu from China.org.cn on Hong Kong's democracy:   The election for the seventh-term Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) took place on Sunday,...

REX joined pro-consumer tech companies in urging Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to keep digital markets accessible to consumers and open to competition. Collaborating with REX on the letter, which was first reported in Politico's Morning Tech,...

This week, Elliot Lewis, a local Long Beach entrepreneur and resident filed the Long Beach Environmental Protection General Purpose Oil Production Tax Increase Measure. This measure was written to increase environmental protections in Long Beach by...

The federal government last week passed legislation to prohibit the harassment and intimidation of health care workers and patients. These new protections are timely, as we are seeing increasing threats directed at physicians and other health care...

Governor Tom Wolf has urged legislators to raise the minimum wage.  The officers of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, President Rick Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder, made the following statements:...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced December 13th the NEM 3.0 policy proposal which includes the highest state solar tax in the United States. If passed, this could be a massive roadblock for the path to a 100% renewable...

At a time when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") is considering Emergency Use Authorization submissions for SARS-CoV-2 variant genotyping assays, Milan Patel, co-founder and CEO of PathogenDx, an Arizona-based biotechnology company that...

Hi, I'm Cruz Avila, the newest member of the Alcohol Justice work family (Executive Director since September). I've joined an organization that has been working nonstop for the past 35 years as the alcohol industry watchdog with a bite as well as a...

Recently, the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) published its findings on the impact of indexing the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) to economic conditions in state economies. The research shows that states have an opportunity to...

The Teamsters are applauding a recent finding by Administrative Law Judge John T. Giannopoulos concerning the behavior of CEMEX, one of the largest ready-mix concrete distributers in the world, during a 2019 union election. Judge Giannopoulos found...

A group of non-profit organizations and private individuals led by the national coalition Americans for Responsible Technology (ART) today petitioned the Health and Human Services Department and its constituent agency, the Food and Drug...

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and Restaurants Canada issued a joint open letter to all Premiers urging them to provide financial support to small businesses facing renewed lockdowns, restrictions and loss of business in the...

Women whose doctors sexually abuse and assault them are denied justice both by the Medical Board of California, as a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed this week, and in the courts because of the 1975 law limiting legal accountability for...

OPSEU/SEFPO is echoing concerns raised by the Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk on how the province is policing environmental law. In her reports, she continues to be critical of the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks for its failure to...

United Steelworkers (USW) International President Tom Conway and District 8 Director Billy Thompson released the following statement today urging Sen. Joe Manchin to vote for the budget reconciliation bill that would deliver long-overdue investments...

The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is pleased to announce the launch of Misinfo 101, a series of national training workshops designed to help Canadian post-secondary students identify misinformation and disinformation....

Legislation introduced late last week by Senators Amy Klobuchar (MN) and Marco Rubio (FL) would rob seniors of affordable daily medications and is backed and paid for by front organizations for big pharmaceutical companies....

The fifth wave of COVID-19 is here. Early evidence suggests that omicron is far more transmissible than previous variants, but our understanding of the virus is still growing. As exhausted, frustrated and angry as all Canadians are, we cannot ignore...

With the passage of new federal legislation to protect health workers and patients from threats, violence and harassment, the federal government is sending a strong show of support to physicians and all health professionals who are bracing for the...

While the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is pleased that the federal government has passed Bill C-2 into law allowing some businesses to receive ongoing pandemic support, we remain deeply concerned that the majority of small firms...