Canadian cities feature in top 10 livable cities index

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:58:07 +0000

Two Canadian cities have made it to the list of top 10 cities to live in the world, according to the 2024 Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s Global Livability Index.

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Three Canadian cities made the top 10 of the Global Livability Index 2022

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 10:44:00 +0000

Three Canadian cities have made the top ten in the list of the world’s most livable cities in the Global Livability Index 2022. This year Calgary, Alberta tied with Zurich for third place. It outranked Zurich in education and infrastructure but fell short in culture and environment. Vienna claimed the top spot overall and Copenhagen […]

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EIU sees 2020 global economic growth at 2.9%

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 07:00:04 +0000

THE Economist Group’s research arm believes that global economic growth will stay at decades low this year. In a report, The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) estimates global economic growth at 2.9 percent, matching the expansion rate recorded in 2019. “We expect economic growth in the developed world to slow in 2020, driven by a […]

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Environmentalism & The Electric Car

Credit to Author: Robert Dee| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 07:34:23 +0000

I have several acquaintances who are concerned about our present administration and Trump’s anti-environmental actions (now he’s just turned back the protection of streams and waterways, giving industry carte blanche to pollute even more). Several of those same individuals just bought new gas cars in the last year. That’s the problem! It’s not the climate deniers, however naive they may be — it’s the people who understand the danger at our door and think it’s someone else’s responsibility to fix

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Canada ranked 6th out of 167 countries in latest Democracy Index

Credit to Author: CIC News| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:34:27 +0000

Canada earned a 10 out of 10 for civil liberties and was ranked sixth overall among the world’s democracies in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s updated Democracy Index.   The index provides a snapshot of the state of democracy in 167 countries based on scores in five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of […]

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