industrial

How industrial music album Halber Mensch changed an artistic director’s life, but made his friends start to isolate him

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Halber Mensch (1985), the third album from seminal German experimental band Einstürzende Neubauten, blended their trademark early sound of harsh industrial noise, often created using instruments made by the band themselves from scrap metal, with a growing musical palette that also included electronic and even pastoral elements. Andrew Chan Hang-fai, artistic director of Hong Kong … Read more

Federal labour minister announces inquiry into B.C. port strike

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British Columbia Seamus O’Regan says workers and businesses need “long-term solutions” and the inquiry commission will present its findings next spring.  Seamus O’Regan says workers and businesses need ‘long-term solutions’ to disputes CBC News · Posted: Apr 22, 2024 6:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago Striking port workers from the International Longshore … Read more

Quebec multinational GardaWorld hit by $30M heist at southern California storage facility

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Thieves got away with $30 million US in cash from a money storage facility in Los Angeles by breaking into the building on Easter Sunday and cracking the safe. Now, detectives are seeking to unravel the brazen cash heist, reportedly one of the largest on record in Los Angeles. Police Cmdr. Elaine Morales told The … Read more

Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming

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For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. The latest record-breaking in this climate change-fuelled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren’t just the hottest for … Read more

McDonald’s eyes record global expansion in coming years, with more focus on delivery

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McDonald’s is expecting to go through a growth spurt. The Chicago-based burger giant wants to establish thousands of new locations around the globe in the next few years, aiming to have 50,000 locations operating by 2027. That’s up roughly 25 per cent from more than 40,000 McDonald’s locations in operation today. The company says its anticipated expansion would represent the … Read more

2023 set to be hottest year on record, UN says

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The United Nations weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt and heat waves in the future. The World Meteorological Organization also warned that the average temperature for the year is up some 1.4 degrees C from … Read more