Alex Nguyen
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Austin, TX, United States
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Oaths, M&Ms and a historic Quran: Texas’ freshman lawmakers begin their inaugural legislative session
New Texas House members were sworn into office Tuesday, including some who have already made history. → Read More
UT suspends head basketball coach after family violence arrest
Chris Beard was hired in 2021 and is one of the University of Texas’ highest-paid employees. → Read More
Asian Americans are one of Texas’ fastest-growing demographics. But they feel ignored by politicians.
Asian American and Pacific Islander voters said that candidates don’t often reach out — and that their elected officials don’t adequately represent their interests. → Read More
B.C. workers at Canada’s only unionized Starbucks ratify contract
Workers at Victoria Starbucks, the sole unionized location in Canada, have ratified a three-year collective agreement → Read More
Experts sound the alarm ahead of Brazil’s third COVID-19 wave
Facing overwhelmed hospitals as well as oxygen and sedative shortages, the most populous country in Latin America saw April’s death toll surpass March’s record of 66,573 fatalities → Read More
WorkSafeBC Data Shows an ‘Alarming’ Spike in COVID-19 Claims
Advocates say paid sick leave would help workers stay home and stop the spread. → Read More
Parking Problems Eat into Food Delivery Drivers’ Earnings
Union lobbies BC’s cities to offer free, short-term parking as demand for app couriers continue to grow. → Read More
Morning Update: Pelosi says House will introduce legislation to impeach Trump unless Pence forces ouster
Two Republican senators — Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have called on the U.S. President to resign immediately → Read More
How BC’s Fruit Farming Industry Could Go for Gold Again
A lab-grown cherry changed the fruit game. With funding we could do it again, scientists and farmers say. Last of two. → Read More
Morning Update: One year after Flight 752 crash, Canadians reflect on the brilliant minds lost
Although Canada and Iran don’t have diplomatic relations and there are tensions between the two over the crash investigation, postsecondary schools continue to work to ensure that links between Canada and Iranian students endure → Read More
Morning Update: Hospitals risk being overwhelmed because of holiday COVID-19 rule-breakers
While cities such as Thunder Bay, Ottawa and Kingston may have vacancies, the area to the west and north of Toronto is already at 90-per-cent ICU capacity → Read More
Evening Update: Canada approves Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine
Also: Scarborough LTC home puts out mayday call as it runs out of staff; Senator and residential school survivor pushes Red Chamber to confront institutional racism → Read More
Morning Update: Canada restricts flights from Britain as fast-spreading variants of COVID-19 emerge
On Sunday, Ottawa announced a 72-hour suspension of flights from Britain beginning at midnight, Eastern time. The suspension does not affect cargo flights or overflights where passengers are not disembarking in Canada → Read More
Morning Update: Chinese state-owned fund among backers of company handling Canadian visa applications
The ownership structure has prompted some of Canada’s former foreign intelligence leaders to warn that Ottawa should think carefully about trusting sensitive information to a company partly owned by the Chinese state → Read More
Morning Update: Ottawa’s deficit spending expected to top record high
Conservatives are already bracing for the updated numbers, with federal Leader Erin O’Toole expecting that the new deficit tally will push $400-billion — past the already historic high of $343.2-billion announced in July → Read More
Morning Update: Health Canada close to approving COVID-19 vaccine, but rollout plan remains uncertain
The pressure on the federal government has risen steadily this week as allies such as the United States and Britain rolled out detailed plans with earlier start dates → Read More
What’s happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray region? Why the government and a coalition group are fighting
Deadly fighting between the Ethiopia’s national government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has created a refugee crisis in the Horn of Africa, threatening famine and instability across the region. Here’s a primer → Read More
Morning Update: Canada at risk of quadrupling of COVID-19 cases by end of December
Also, Canada’s ambassador to China has visited two Canadians who have been detained for nearly two years → Read More
Oil spill response spreads from Mauritius to its diaspora in Canada
The wreck of MV Wakashio has spilled 1,000 tonnes of oil off the shores of a tiny Indian Ocean island country, and volunteers are making sacrifices and getting creative to contain the damage to fragile ecosystems → Read More
Morning Update: Residential school system to be recognized as matter of national historic significance
Two former residential schools, Portage La Prairie Residential School in Manitoba and the Shubenacadie Residential School in Nova Scotia, will be named national historic sites → Read More