Canadian judge: giving someone the middle finger a 'God-given right'
GENEVA, July 15 (Reuters) – The head of the World Trade Organization told trade ministers on Thursday she was optimistic about concluding multilateral talks on the fishing industry soon but called for a “shift of mindset” to bridge final gaps.
The Whyte report, which examined over 400 complaints, found that British gymnastics suffered from a cultural problem where young athletes were shamed for their weight while others were handed harsh punishments for the slightest mistakes in training.
Oct 18 (Reuters) – British Gymnastics has launched a new action plan, including the reporting of banned coaches, to provide a safe environment for its athletes following a damning report that uncovered a culture of abuse in the sport, the governing body said on Tuesday.
these are important first steps on a long-term journey of change,” Sport England CEO Tim Hollingsworth and UK Sport CEO Sally Munday said in a statement. “We welcome today’s report and acknowledge that though there is no quick fix to the challenges facing the sport of gymnastics …
“I believe that we are all genuinely committed, but a shift of mindset is necessary for us to bridge the final gaps that continue to separate members,” director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told ministers in her opening address at the closed-door meeting, according to a copy of her speech seen by Reuters.
‘I think it’s very empowering to do something that people don’t agree with because it’s good to do what’s right for you and I’m hoping I can inspire other women to not give a f*** what other people think and do what’s right for you.
From labor alone, they figured, the gains would add up to $22.9 trillion over the thirty years from 1990 to 2019, with bigger gains in more recent years as the share of non-white populations has increased while the gaps have remained fairly steady.
A Canadian judge has dismissed a case brought against a man who gave his neighbor a middle-finger salute, describing the gesture as a ‘God-given, Charter-enshrined right’ and calling the decision to prosecute ‘deplorable’.
“Through Reform ’25, we must seize this opportunity and make the care of everyone involved in gymnastics as important as our focus on developing participation and performance,” said British Gymnastics Chief Executive Sarah Powell.
The Whyte Review, published in June, showed that British gymnasts were subjected to widespread physical and mental abuse in a system where such behaviour was condoned in the pursuit of national and international success.
Sept 8 (Reuters) – Racial and ethnic inequities have cost the U.S.
economy some $51 trillion in lost output since 1990, San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said Wednesday, citing data from a paper she and three co-authors will present at The Brookings Institution.
Large and persistent gaps in rates of employment, education, and earnings across races “add up to a smaller economic pie for the nation as a whole,” Daly said in a briefing ahead of the paper’s release Thursday.
‘The fact that he went for quiet walks with his kids? The fact that he socialized with the other young parents on the street? If that is the standard, we should all fear that our neighbors are killers-in-waiting.’
Daly and her co-authors calculated what the gains to GDP would be if those and other race-based gaps were erased: if Black and Hispanic men and women held jobs at the same rates as whites, if they completed college at the same rates as whites, and if they earned the same as whites.
The paper was written with Shelby Buckman, a graduate student at Stanford University, Boston University post-grad Lily Seitelman, and San Francisco Fed vice president of community development Laura Choi.
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