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Spain emerges as Europe's economic star after years of austerity
Spanish tourism is at record levels, 29.2 million international visitors crowding the country in the first half of 2015. As Eric Reguly reports, the Spanish government sees this as a sign that the country has made a remarkable economic comeback.
Spain’s economy is growing faster than any other big European economy, and the International Monetary Fund is forecasting it will grow at twice the average of the 19 euro zone countries.
The centre-right government is taking most of the credit for the turnaround, citing the success of their fiscal tightening and labour and banking reforms.
But the country is no miracle economy. Its jobless rate, at 22 per cent, is more than twice the precrisis level, and political risk is on the rise.
Two dead, at least 3 wounded in Toronto nightclub shooting
Two people are dead and three others are in hospital following an overnight shooting that began inside a Toronto nightclub and spilled onto the streets outside.
Police said they responded to a call about shots being fired at about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Muzik nightclub on the grounds of Exhibition Place.
One of the victims was pronounced dead on the scene, Supt. Frank Bergen said, while the second victim was pronounced dead in hospital.
Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau confirm Globe debate attendance
The leaders of Canada’s three official parties will square off over key economic issues on Sept. 17 in a federal election debate hosted by The Globe and Mail, James Bradshaw reports.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau have each confirmed they will take part in the prime-time debate. David Walmsley, The Globe’s editor-in-chief, will act as moderator.
The event will be broadcast live from Calgary’s Stampede Park, beginning at 8 p.m. ET, through the paper’s website and mobile apps, and also on two separate YouTube channels.
Readers can contribute to the question list by expressing their economic concerns here.
Chilly at work? Icy office temperature was devised with men in mind
There’s a reason air-conditioned offices freeze more women than men. According to a new study, most office buildings set temperatures based on a decades-old formula that uses males’ metabolic rates.
There are other reasons, too, to set a higher office temperature: It also helps combat global warming.
“In a lot of buildings, you see energy consumption is a lot higher because the standard is calibrated for men’s body heat production,” said Boris Kingma, a co-author of the study and a biophysicist at Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Meeting the demands of office staff, he adds, would also waste less energy and emit less carbon dioxide.
New oxycodone rules would give drug maker a monopoly in Canada, experts warn
The federal government’s proposed rules aimed at making oxycodone more difficult to abuse would create an industry monopoly, Carly Weeks and Karen Howlett report.
The new law would alter slow-release oxycodone to make it harder to crush, snort or inject for a quick high. But it would also force generic versions of the popular drug off the market.
In addition, medical experts say the new law misses the mark, and that overprescribing opioids is the biggest reason for endemic drug abuse.
Canada ranks as the world’s second-highest per capita consumer of opioids. In Ontario alone, more than 500 people die each year from opioids, exceeding motor vehicle deaths, according to the provincial coroner’s office.