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Margaret Atwood on getting into the weeds with Jennifer Baichwal, Canada’s fiercest filmmaker
Director Jennifer Baichwal of INTO THE WEEDS, Photo courtesy of Mongrel Media
world
Chinese national sentenced to U.S. prison after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets
Justice Department's Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Matthew Olsen, right, and Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, left, arrive at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, to discuss recent law enforcement actions to address transnational repression. The Justice Department says a Chinese operative sought to undermine the congressional candidacy of a Chinese dissident in New York, including by seeking to uncover or even manufacture derogatory information that would cause him to lose the race. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
international business
Investors sue Bayer over stock’s slump in wake of Roundup litigation
FILE PHOTO: Mondanto Co's Roundup is shown for sale in Encinitas, California, U.S., June 26, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
film
Christopher Walken plays a Saskatchewan farmer in Percy, a controversial film that’s sowing seeds of discontent
Christopher Walken as the title character in the film Percy.
report on business
California court upholds verdict, slashes damages in Monsanto cancer case
Roundup weed killer, the subject of thousands of lawsuits in the U.S., sits on a shelf in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, 2019. Bayer on July 20,2020 lost an appeal challenging the outcome of the first case to go to trial in the U.S. over the company's weedkiller Roundup, though the court reduced the punitive awarded to the plaintiff.
international business
Bayer shares jump on U.S. government backing in glyphosate lawsuit
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Bayer AG is pictured outside a plant of the German pharmaceutical and chemical maker in Wuppertal, Germany August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
canada
Three Canadian class-action lawsuits proposed over alleged carcinogenic herbicide
Three Canadian class-action lawsuits proposed over alleged carcinogenic herbicide