News by subject: AVO

During National Small Business Week, small businesses owners and creators from across the U.S. will visit Capitol Hill today, meeting with two dozen U.S. House and Senate offices to highlight the importance of digital advertising to the survival of...

Marineland announced its opening plans for the 2024 season that will continue its display of beluga whales, while shutting down its other animal attractions.  "Marineland is doubling down on its so-called 'Friendship Cove' which is nothing but a...

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Today, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) launched a new digital campaign, #CancelHate. The campaign features Holocaust survivors reading Holocaust denial posts from across social media platforms. Each post...

The ALS Association today celebrated the beginning of ALS Awareness Month and the 10th Anniversary of the Ice Bucket Challenge, which inspired the world to join the fight against ALS in the summer of 2014. Throughout May and the summer, the ALS...

A class action brought forward by two Quebec Inuit women against Canada and Quebec has been given the green light to proceed in a ruling released by the Quebec Superior Court yesterday. The two Inuit women, both from the Northern Quebec region of...

While it is encouraging to see government action towards addressing the auto insurance file, the two auto reform reports released on Friday, April 26, 2024, provide a potentially misleading hope for consumers. If the government does not take a...

The Cannabis Freedom Party (CFP) is very pleased to learn of the news from the Associated Press that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule 3 drug. The CFP sees this reclassification as a major win for...

RIV Capital Inc. ("RIV Capital" or the "Company") , an acquisition and investment firm with a focus on building a leading multi-state platform with one of the strongest portfolios of brands in key strategic U.S. markets, today applauds reports that...

Today, Battleground California has become California's only independent expenditure coalition aimed at winning eight competitive congressional races that will securely position Democrats to take back the House from two more years of Republican...

JTI-Macdonald, a tobacco company operating in Canada for over 150 years, today took the unprecedented step of launching Know What You're Buying?, a digital campaign targeting the explosive growth of Canada's illegal tobacco industry in its epicentre,...

Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, today announced the winners of the 2024 Ripple of Hope Awards: Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter, actor, director, and producer; Antonio Neri, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise;...

A quick Reddit search tells an unsurprising story. People who want to quit smoking are having a hard time thanks to Premier Eby's unnecessary and ill-conceived roadblocks....

Below are National Press Club World Press Freedom Day events that take place on May 3. World Press Freedom Day has always been important to the mission and purpose of the Club. In 2011 ? the only year where WPFD took place in the United States -- it...

Six months after Quebec banned flavoured vapour products the anti-tobacco lobby groups that called for the ban are now silent and refuse to acknowledge the resulting policy failure....

Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS), a leading non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring equitable access to advanced academic opportunities for all students, is proud to announce...

Members of Unifor Local 1541 who work at Best Theratronics ? a company in Kanata, Ont. that manufactures medical devices ? went on strike this morning after the company refused to budge on major concessions, including a proposed two-year contract...

Uranium Energy Corp or the "Company") applauds last night's vote by the United States Senate for passing H.R. 1042, a bill to ban Russian uranium imports into the United States, by unanimous consent. The House of Representatives passed the bill in...

In March 2024, the Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) for Ontario released an extensive report focused on substance use and its detrimental effects. The report presents a strong strategic plan aimed at addressing tobacco and vape use and its...

The Fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding treaty on ending plastic pollution, adjourned April 29, 2024, in Ottawa, Canada after a week of slow but meaningful progress. ASH and its Stop...

The Teamsters are proud to endorse the bipartisan agreement to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Over the last year and half, Teamsters have been adamant that the FAA Reauthorization Act include key priorities to protect workers...

Today, Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio released an official report documenting how companies like Uber and Lyft have cheated the state's employee protection programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars by misclassifying workers as...

The right policy framework and incentive structure will advance the market for alternative fuels, including electricity, while lowering carbon emissions for transportation energy, a representative of the truck stop, travel plaza and fuel retailing...

America's LGBTQ+-owned restaurants and bars serving food will once again find a vital lifeline this year stemming from the ongoing partnership formed by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), the business voice of the LGBTQ+ community and...

Tomorrow, Do No Harm will launch a first-of-its-kind Continuing Medical Education (CME) course that fulfills the "implicit bias training" requirements of Michigan's licensing agency. The course will be launched in response and as an alternative to...

A news report by China.org.cn on Antony Blinken's visit to China:   On April 24th, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in China, his first visit since June, 2023, garnering attention from the international community on what influence this...

On May 1st, the world marks the International Day of Paradism, heralding a future vision of a society free from the constraints of labor and economic disparity. Introduced in 2009 by Rael, founder and spiritual leader of the International Raelian...

Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition launched a major new advocacy campaign to save the bipartisan Bayh-Dole Act, which could soon be gutted by a misguided regulatory proposal. The effort, dubbed #SaveBayhDole, couples testimonials from leaders at...

Airline Dispatchers at Air Transat represented by the Canadian Airline Dispatchers Association (CALDA) have given their association a resounding 100% strike mandate in their negotiations with Air Transat. The result of the Strike Vote was delivered...

Scotiabank is supporting the Moose Hide Campaign and, through its branches across Canada, is bringing awareness to the goal of ending gender-based and domestic violence leading up to Campaign Day on May 16. The Moose Hide Campaign marks an annual...

Ontario's forest firefighters will soon have the same presumptive WSIB coverage that urban firefighters do. Like urban firefighters, forest firefighters are at a higher risk of cancer, heart disease and heart injuries, and post-traumatic stress...

A final FDA rule regulating laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices does not address serious concerns raised by ARUP Laboratories and the clinical laboratory community, and the company's stance on the rule has not changed, CEO Andy...

Statement attributable to:Octavia Peck Palmer, PhDPresident, Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) "We at the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) strongly disagree with the Food and Drug...

The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) welcomes the bipartisan agreement on a five-year Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorization bill....

To reduce inequities in the U.S. health system, the Data Equity Coalition is calling for standardized data collection methods around race, ethnicity, language (REL), sexual orientation, gender identity (SOGI) and disability status through a new...

As reported by the Globe and Mail on April 24, 2024, in Mark Carney's recent...

" Catholic school boards and their dedicated staff work tirelessly in support of the mental, physical, intellectual, and spiritual well-being of students in Catholic schools," said Patrick Daly, President of the Ontario Catholic School Trustees'...

On April 28 of every year, Canada observes its National Day of Mourning in commemoration of those who have lost their lives, suffered illness or injury on the job or experienced a work?related tragedy. This year, the Union of Canadian Correctional...

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released a final rule under Section 1557, the core nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act. This groundbreaking rule marks a critical step in protecting access to health care and coverage for...

The Vinyl Institute, a U.S. trade association representing the leading manufacturers of vinyl, today commented on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) denial of the Center for Biological Diversity's petition to classify discarded PVC as...

This morning at OPSEU/SEFPO Convention 2024, member delegates from across Ontario re-elected President JP Hornick to continue the worker fightback for better working conditions for public sector workers and strong public services for all...

On behalf of the San Francisco's more than 37 thousand Republican voters, twelve members of the Briones Republicans slate have sent a letter to John Dennis, Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party (SFGOP), urging him to immediately seat all...

Today, Tuan "TQ" Nguyen has formally filed his candidacy for US. Senate in Florida. Nguyen, a no-party-affiliated candidate, is joining the race where Rick Scott and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell are the partisan front runners. To explain why he is running...

Unifor welcomes 800 new auto sector members at F & P, a Tier 1 Automotive Parts Manufacturer located in Tottenham, Ontario. "These...

On Friday, hundreds of OPSEU/SEFPO members will take to the streets of downtown Toronto in a march to protect public services.  This...

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Us children in Palestine do not grow up." This snippet comes from a conversation between a reporter and a child in the war-torn Palestinian enclave that is the Gaza Strip in 2023. Even today, the agonies of...

NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, praises Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for signing into law HB 1018, the Second Amendment Privacy Act. This NSSF-supported law protects the privacy and sensitive financial information of people purchasing...

The BC Treaty Commission congratulates the Haida Nation and the Government of British Columbia on a groundbreaking negotiated approach to title recognition. The introduction of the Haida Nation Recognition Amendment Act, 2024, marks a significant...

The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) supports the steps announced by the Ontario government yesterday to help family doctors and other primary care providers spend more time with their patients and less time on paperwork. "Our...

Family members confirmed that thanks to the growing international public and government awareness, illegally detained philanthropist, Ruben Vardanyan, was granted permission to speak to his wife, Veronika, today. This marks only his second call to...