Toronto police said Yorkdale Mall went under lockdown Saturday afternoon after reports of a man shooting a gun nearby. Police said on Twitter that at about 2:15 pm a man was shooting a gun into the air while driving on Highway 401 near Allen Road. Police said they put the mall in lockdown when the … Read more
When Chinese businesswoman Yang Jing was planning this year’s summer holiday in 2021, she chose the tropical southern island of Hainan because of its nigh-perfect COVID track record. The island in the South China Sea recorded just two positive symptomatic COVID-19 cases in the whole of last year. Fast forward to this month, however, and … Read more
A man has died following a shooting outside Union Station Saturday evening. The transit hub was placed under a two-hour lockdown after the shooting near the city’s Entertainment District left a man in “life-threatening” condition. Police located the man with a gunshot wound around 7:50 pm at the corner of York Street and Bremner Boulevard. … Read more
One popular saying in the oil industry says that the only cure for high oil prices is high oil prices. With a war in Europe, tight global supply that’s about to get even tighter, lockdowns in China, and economic uncertainty rife, oil prices may have finally become too high to be sustainable. While prices rebounded … Read more
Oil prices dipped by more than 4% early on Monday, with Brent falling below $100 a barrel, as COVID-related lockdowns in China weighed on demand expectations, while the coordinated massive release from oil reserves eased fears of supply shortages. As of 8:05 am ET on Monday, WTI Crude was down by 4.80% at $93.59, and … Read more
The outlook for crude oil demand in the world’s second-largest consumer is dimmed amid the continued increase in Covid-19 cases and the extended lockdown in Shanghai, where daily cases have topped 2,000. Because of the movement restrictions put in place to rein in the spread of the virus and because of the lockdown, China’s oil … Read more
In such uncertain times, there are few economic sectors that are a 100% sure bet for investors – but energy storage certainly seems to be one of them. As the world leans more earnestly toward decarbonization and the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sound a “code red for humanity” as the … Read more
