Finland and The Netherlandshave already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance regardless of working status, and now Ontario, Canada, is onboard.
Ontario’s government announcedin February that a pilot program will be coming to the Canadian province sometime later this year. Read More
Do you know how many people are overweight or obese in your country? Or what proportion have access to the internet at home? Chances are, you’re wrong. New research by Ipsos MORI shows people around the world are generally clueless about the state of their nation. Read More
The downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish forces on Tuesdayhas had tensions running high.
Moscow is calling it a “planned provocation.” Turkey, a member of NATO, has said it had a right to defend its airspace. Read More
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developmentreleased its twice yearly Economic Outlook on Monday, and it makes for pretty gloomy reading.
Angel Gurria, the OECD’s secretary general spoke in Paris on Monday morning, and he reflected the OECD’s generally pessimistic tone. Read More
After the United Nations withdrew a paper calling for its member states to decriminalize all drugs, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson published it in full on the official Virgin blog Monday.
In the post, titled “Finally — a change in course on drug policy,” Branson wrote: Read More
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