Consumers increasingly prefer to shop online. We all know it.
Online product information is easier to keep up to date.
Ecommerce experiences are more customizable.
According to the Data Marketing Association, the number of catalogs mailed in the United States recently fell to 9.8 billion in 2016—which is down considerably from the peak mailing of 19.6 billion in 2007.
Print is dead. Except it isn't.
Print is a major driver of both online and offline sales.
Many online and in-store purchases are inspired by seeing items in a catalog. While websites excel at focused searches, print catalogs more readily lend themselves to product discovery and casual browsing. In short, print catalogs continue to be an important element of any omni-channel strategy.
Print is still a massively powerful channel for many retailers and manufacturers. Print is responsible for significant increases in direct marginal revenue and is a key brand driver.
Print is awesome. If only it didn't have to be so expensive.
Of course, everyone knows that while the returns on catalog production can be great, there is a huge cost and hassle factor associated with their production.
Today, we'll focus on how companies can centralize and utilize their product information across print, web, and other channels using Akeneo and Pim2catalog.
Pim2catalog is a connector for Akeneo and InDesign built by long-time Akeneo partner Naolis. It allows small and medium sized companies to easily and quickly build customized print catalogs using the product information contained within Akeneo PIM.
Pim2catalog allows merchandisers to work within Akeneo to develop their catalog merchandising plan using product descriptions already available from within Akeneo. Merchandisers utilize generic labels to develop their catalog strategy without having to worry about design details.
Akeneo then outputs a standard InDesign file with the products based upon an unlimited number of totally customizable design templates (if you can do it in InDesign, you can use it as a template).
The design team can then manipulate the file and tweak the design just like they would any other InDesign file.
If any changes are made to the product catalog during this process (and there usually tons of them!), these changes automatically flow into the InDesign document—seamlessly ensuring that the product specifics are accurate as-of the day of printing.
The merchandiser can then quickly and easily output specialty catalogs aimed at specific target markets with high frequency. The template allows for easy insertion and support of holiday or other moods and themes. The copy and design can be as elaborate and customized as the team chooses.
The merchandiser can then quickly and easily output specialty catalogs aimed at specific target markets with high frequency.
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This labor-intensive process is familiar to anyone who has created a print catalog in the last twenty years. It usually involves cutting and pasting product descriptions, imagery, and/or links from spreadsheets and product databases. Product descriptions are manually cut and pasted into pre-set templates. This creates lots of opportunity for all kinds of errors, which requires lots and lots of proofreading and lots of last minute stress (and typos) as changes in product specifications come in at the last minute. Additional localizations make every iteration exponentially more complicated.
The end-result is very high quality but the cost and stress put into achieving this result is painful.
Several years ago a number of solutions arose that allowed for the direct creation of PDF files by combining design templates and content from .csv files. This sounds ideal, but the reality is more sobering. The highly templated nature of the process allows for very little page variation, call-outs, and the visual and textual flair that creates sales.
Customers just don't want a catalog that looks like it was auto-generated.
They desire more variety in design and presentation than these direct-to-PDF solutions can provide.
Pim2catalog gives merchandisers a hybrid of both worlds: beautiful and highly impactful custom catalogs with much of the speed and efficiency of automation. Using Pim2catalog allows retailers and manufacturers to automate as much or as little of the process as they like. They can customize every page or just lavish extra attention on one or two areas and take a more templated approach for the rest.
Efficiency gains vary, but gains of 30-50% are average. One customer reported that their main catalog used to take six months with 7 people but now only takes two months with 2 people—while maintaining the same level of product information and design.
Many companies initially adopt Pim2catalog expecting to use it primarily to showcase their entire product line. However, the increased speed with which they can publish specialized catalogs often means that they quickly adopt their strategy to sending out more, but smaller and more focused, catalogs that are also cheaper to print and mail.
Some companies, such as B2B companies or sellers of large numbers of parts and/or SKUs, have found that they don't need to create print catalogs at all. They simply keep their product catalog available as a PDF and output new PDFs with updated product information as often as once a day.
It began by being built atop .csv files before Akeneo was founded; the same .csv files that so many Akeneo customers relied upon but found endlessly frustrating before they too discovered PIM.
Naolis and Akeneo started their partnership even before Akeneo PIM launched. Once the Naolis team understood what Akeneo was building, they immediately signed up to be one of Akeneo's first partners. The first version of the connector was shipped in time for the Akeneo PIM launch. Every updated version (of both Akeneo and Pim2catalog) has improved the integration and user experience. Akeneo PIM and Pim2catalog are now both very mature products with rock-solid reliability, ease of use, and integration.
Akeneo PIM's channel management allows for product data to be customized for specific channels with descriptions and technical attributes that are tailored to that outlet. This allows companies to have different formats for online versus print.
Pim2catalog is only available on Akeneo PIM.
Pim2catalog is an open source project supported by an annual subscription featuring an SLA-backed support agreement. You can try it out via the Akeneo Marketplace or from Pim2catalog's standalone website.


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Gone Too Far? Reproductive Politics in the Time of Obama
New Research on Hyde in Louisiana Reaffirms the Cost of Abortion Restrictions
For Trans Men Seeking Reproductive Health Care, 'There Are Barriers Every Step of the Way'
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Jan 23, 2012, 7:32am On The Issues Magazine
What about abortion gives it staying power as the central issue in domestic politics, even in the period of the worst economic situation since the Great Depression of the 1930s? This is a question well worth pursuing.
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Originally written by Carole Joffe for On The Issues Magazine.
UPDATE, 11:07AM, Monday, January 23, 2012: On January 20, 2012, to the relief of many reproductive health organizations, the Obama Administration announced that it would not grant most religious organizations the greatly expanded exemption from contraceptive coverage that had been sought by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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I sounded a much more hopeful note in my recent book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars. The book was started in the administration of George W. Bush, a particularly harsh time for the reproductive justice community. I finished the book in the first months of the presidency of Barack Obama, ending on a note of "cautious optimism" about a turnabout for the fortunes of reproductive health services and particularly for the provision of abortion. Candidate Obama, after all, had forcefully voiced his support for legal abortion, and nothing — at the time — seemed to be worse than the endless attacks on reproductive health services (not just abortion, but family planning , sex education, condom distribution for HIV patients and more) that were a key feature of the Bush presidency.
Quoting from the distinguished historian Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's work on an earlier period of abortion conflict in 19th century America, I even speculated that we might be entering a period in which abortion and related issues would no longer be "the central drama of (our) culture." Given the devastating recession that had already become very evident around the time of the 2008 election, I, like many others, reasonably thought that the economy would in fact become the "central drama."
But very soon after the 2008 election, it became very clear that social conservatives were not going away. On the contrary, they seemed more energized than ever. It also became clear that Obama the president was not going to be the forceful defender of reproductive rights that many of his supporters, including myself, had fantasized. Indeed, as early as January 2009, in his first weeks in office, reproductive politics emerged as a factor in the stimulus debates, and the new president blinked. The president's proposal had included a modest provision that allowed states to spend more Medicaid funds on family planning. The Republican House of Representatives leader, John Boehner, publically mocked this provision, asking incredulously what "spending millions for contraceptives" had to do with "fixing the economy." The provision was quickly dropped.
And, of course, many reproductive rights supporters are still smarting over Obama's key concessions to anti-abortion forces, particularly the Catholic Church, in order to win support for his health reform legislation. By late 2011, it was still unclear whether Obama would again cave to the Church's demands for very broad exemptions to the requirement that health insurance plans, under Obama's health legislation, provide contraception without co-pays. But while that was pending, the reproductive health community was stunned when, in a clear bow to politics, the Obama Administration took the unprecedented step of overruling the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and rejecting the agency's recommendation that Emergency Contraception be made available without a prescription to women under the age of 17.
How the Wedge Works
My purpose in this essay, however, is not to simply catalogue all the disappointments that reproductive health advocates have suffered in the Obama administration, an indictment that has been done very well by others. (For the record, an unequivocally positive step that has occurred in the Obama presidency is the Department of Justice's vigorous enforcement of the FACE legislation that protects providers and patients from anti-abortion terrorism, an effort that far outstrips such activity by the Justice Department in the Bush years.)
Despite my hopeful predictions, abortion has maintained its dominance as a wedge issue. This is reflected in the various bills put forward by the new Republican majority in Congress after the November 2010 mid-term election, for example the Orwellian-named "Protect Life" Act, which stipulated that hospitals did not have to offer abortions to women, even in life-threatening situations.
Similarly, in state houses across the country after that pivotal election an unprecedented number of abortion restrictions were introduced by Republican legislators, including bans on abortion after 20 weeks, which clearly violate the Roe v. Wade decision and were intended, in the eyes of many observers, to lure pro-choice lawyers into a test case that could possibly overthrow that landmark ruling. Finally, as politicians compete to be the Republican nominee in the 2012 presidential race, the ante has been raised: in this election cycle, to be acceptable to the anti-abortion base, and to compete with each other, candidates must make clear their opposition to rape and incest exceptions and declare their agreement that "life begins at fertilization."
It is actually not surprising that Republican politicians at all levels insist on keeping abortion front and center, the economic crisis notwithstanding. Abortion is not only the best arrow in these politicians' quivers, in terms of pleasing a crucial segment of the Republican base — it is arguably the only arrow they have. The reality, as has become evident since Obama's election, is that the Republican party is tied to economic policies — opposition to infrastructure spending, fanatical devotion to tax cuts for the most wealthy — that will not create jobs, but, in fact, will destroy them. So abortion has, once again, as I termed it in my book, become a "brilliant distraction" from pressing social problems.
For me, the more complicated — and fascinating — question is: Why do voters put up with this endless assault on abortion and contraception (and the corresponding neglect of the economy)? Why, for example, is there seemingly no price to be paid by a politician who is on record as saying its okay for a woman with an ectopic pregnancy to die?
The first, most conventional, answer is that the U.S. is a deeply apolitical country, with a notoriously low voting turnout, compared to other countries. Politicians therefore can take actions that speak to the minority of voters who are deeply engaged, and be confident that the rest of the country is not paying attention. A variant on this general political apathy is that the abortion issue, in particular, has been so divisive and raucous, for so long, that voters simply tune out abortion-related political news, assuming a "pox on both their houses" stance.
In contrast, a third intriguing possibility is that the public's backlash against Right-wing overreach may, just may, finally be at hand. The recent defeat, by a substantial margin, of the "fertilized-egg-as-person"amendment in Mississippi, a highly conservative state where the measure was widely predicted to pass, is suggestive of this. Furthermore, the "defund Planned Parenthood" campaigns, avidly pursued by Republicans both in Congress and in a number of states, have polled very badly with the public. Certainly, in April 2011, when Obama refused to bend to John Boehner's demand that cutting Planned Parenthood and other family planning programs be part of budget negotiations, the president gained — not lost — political capital.
It is, to be sure, demoralizing from a reproductive justice viewpoint, that it takes such surreal proposals as making fertilized eggs the moral and legal equivalent of living women, and the all-out demonization of birth control, nearly 50 years after the Supreme Court decision legalizing its use, to make the American people wake up to the threats posed by the fanatics of the Right, and the cynical politicians who do their bidding. And it may well be that these extremist proposals — rather than causing a backlash — will make more "normal" restrictions on abortion and contraception look reasonable.
So Bad That It's Good?
But the favor that the zealots now in ascendancy in social conservative circles — that is, those who oppose all sexual activity except procreative sex within heterosexual marriage — may have given us is the broad sweep of their proposals. In a society that is marked by deep economic inequality, it is hardly surprising that those women most affected by the assaults on both abortion and contraception are disproportionately poor women of color — that is, those who have the least political, as well as economic power, and who are most vulnerable to cuts in public services. The unfortunate reality is that, while many of those in the reproductive justice movement work tirelessly on behalf of these women, most in this society — including other women who also use reproductive health services — worry little about these marginalized women. Nonpoor women have long been able to assume that contraception and abortion will always be available, as long as one has the means to purchase them.
In that sense, the Mississippi egg-as-person amendment, and similar efforts planned elsewhere, may truly be serving as wake-up calls for the electorate. For it was not just abortions (including lifesaving ones) that were on the line — but most forms of contraception and IVF treatments (a service that, almost by definition, implies a well-to-do clientele).
Just as the Occupy Wall Street movement has brilliantly framed the economic inequality in the U.S. as existing between the one percent of the super-wealthy and the remaining 99 percent of the population, the current battles in reproductive politics reminds us of another 99 percent — those American women who have ever used birth control in the context of heterosexual sex. The reproductive legacy of the Obama years may well be this huge group's recognition of itself as a political community. Again, I am cautiously optimistic.
Carole Joffe a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Davis, and a professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of "Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us," "Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v Wade," and numerous other writings on abortion provision. For Carole's author profile, click here.
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Q: (node:8472) [DEP_WEBPACK_DEV_SERVER_ON_AFTER_SETUP_MIDDLEWARE] so i got error when i started my react-app
(node:8472) [DEP_WEBPACK_DEV_SERVER_ON_AFTER_SETUP_MIDDLEWARE] DeprecationWarning: 'onAfterSetupMiddleware' option is deprecated. Please use the 'setupMiddlewares' option.
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(node:8472) [DEP_WEBPACK_DEV_SERVER_ON_BEFORE_SETUP_MIDDLEWARE] DeprecationWarning: 'onBeforeSetupMiddleware' option is deprecated. Please use the 'setupMiddlewares' option.

does anyone have a solution i'm still confused after i search in google and anywhere i got the error code which is difference not 8472 or there is a different meaning.
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The fastest weighted auto-completion trie known to me.

Introduction
============

Yet another trie? "Why?" I hear you cry! I know, it's trie-ing...

For [Superhuman](http://superhuman.com) we're building a product focussed around speed and
productivity. To do this we need to run an auto-completer over your contacts, ordered by how
recently you contacted them.

Most tries return results in alphabetical order, this trie returns them by descending score.

This trie structure can index my 285kb of contact data in ~11ms, and provide auto-completion
results ordered by how recently I've communicated with them in ~0.25ms. This improves over
the original linear search (which took ~40ms) and first stab at using a trie (~55ms index, ~20ms search).

Usage
=====

First install. In this example I'm using npm, but browserify or copy-paste works just fine.

```
npm install trie-ing
```

Then use it

```javascript

var Trie = require('trie-ing');

var trie = new Trie();

trie.add({
    key: "richard",
    value: {name: "Richard", ...},
    score: 5
});

trie.add({
    key: "rachael",
    value: {name: "Rachael", ...},
    score: 1
});

trie.add({
    key: "sarah",
    value: {name: "Sarah", ...},
    score: 3
});

trie.add({
    key: "sam",
    value: {name: "Sam", ...},
    score: 2
});

// The limit option limits the number of results.
// The unique option returns only the first result for each key
// (the trie can store multiple values per key)
trie.prefixSearch('r', {limit: 3, unique: true})
//=> [{name: "Richard", ...} , {name: "Rachael", ...}]
```

Efficiency
==========

The problem with building a search tree for contacts is that the order of
results is orthogonal from the search.

If I type "R", my dad ("Richard") should be the first auto-completion result, not
my friend "Rachael" who I haven't spoken to for a year.

To do this nodes in the trie have their highest score attached:

```
                     + (4) rachael
           + (4) r --+ (1) richard
  root ----+
           + (3) s ---+ (3) a ---+ (3) sarah
                                 + (2) sam
```

To improve indexing time, sub-nodes are not sorted; so on the first access to
each section of the tree you have to pay the cost of sorting the sub-nodes (
this is usually a very small sort, <5 entries, per node in the tree).

There's also a special case for nodes with one child, where we don't expand
them out letter by letter. (An exercise for the reader would be to use a
fully compressed trie, which would give us this optimization as a side-effect)

The search algorithm maintains a queue of nodes to visit based on score, and is
truncated to the limit. The most expensive part of the search is merging the
current node's children into the priority queue, and so the efficiency of lookup
is dominated by the limit parameter, with some additional cost due to having to
traverse many intermediate nodes (see note about implementing a compressed trie).

Meta-fu
=======

This code base started out as the trie implementation from
https://github.com/marccampbell/node-autocomplete packaged in a way I can use
it in the browser, but has been significantly alterred.

See LICENSE for original copyright holder, changes are also released under the MIT license.


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Michael Kovrig with his wife, Vina Nadjibulla, upon arriving at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Sept. 25, 2021, after being released from prison in China. (The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn)
Canada in 2021: A Look at the Top Issues of the Year
By Omid Ghoreishi
Omid Ghoreishi
Omid Ghoreishi is an Epoch Times reporter based in Toronto.
and Rahul Vaidyanath
Rahul Vaidyanath
Rahul Vaidyanath is a journalist with The Epoch Times in Canada. His areas of expertise include the economy, financial markets, China, and national defence and security. He has worked for the Bank of Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., and investment banks in Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles.
Here's a rundown of some of the main issues of the year that passed as we enter 2022.
Pandemic, Policies, and Division
The low severity of the Omicron variant despite its high transmissibility gave cause for optimism on the cusp of turning the year after the initial scare of its discovery in South Africa in November.
Nevertheless, when considering the year as a whole, the more than 15,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2020 almost doubled in 2021, with Canada closing the year with over 30,000 deaths.
Vaccinations, which began to arrive in early December 2020, became more widely available as criticism of the federal government in its pace of obtaining vaccine supply and of the provinces in their progress on vaccine distribution continued. By mid-year, there was enough to administer full doses for all who wanted them.
A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Montreal on March 1, 2021. (The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz)
In tandem with the public health crisis, pandemic policies dominated every aspect of life.
As cases began to ease, some restrictions would be lifted, only for more to be brought back periodically as cases crept up again.
The restrictions were partly driven by concerns over inadequate hospital capacity and projections of rising cases. A study by the Fraser Institute in late 2021 reported that, despite spending more on health care than most other high-income countries with universal coverage, Canada's health system ranks poorly compared to other OECD countries when it comes to hospital bed availability, number of doctors, wait times, and medical technologies.
Good news emerged for Canadian snowbirds late in the year as the United States finally opened up its border to vaccinated travellers in November, months after Canada opened its border for Americans.
In a controversial move, federal and provincial governments introduced vaccine mandates encompassing many essential facets of life, including employment and transportation, as well as entertainment and leisure. This came despite comments by federal government officials in 2020 that vaccines likely wouldn't be mandatory.
During the federal election, the issue of vaccine mandates and other pandemic policies became campaign issues, with some parties denouncing certain segments of the population holding different views, as polls showed growing divisions in the country.
A Leger poll in September showed that more than three-quarters of respondents who are vaccinated against COVID-19 said they felt a growing animosity toward those who are unvaccinated. Another survey in the same month by Maru Public Opinion showed that 77 percent of Canadians find the country more divided than it was before the Sept. 20 election.
The year ended with more pandemic restrictions being introduced due to higher case counts, although hospitalization and death cases were low compared to other times during the year.
From lockdowns to reopenings, the Canadian economy continued to heal in 2021. In some ways, such as in terms of regaining jobs lost, the economy returned to pre-pandemic norms. It saw good momentum until Omicron hit, and now, due to renewed restrictions imposed on the public, economists are dialling back their estimates for early 2022 growth. However, one Bay Street bank estimates that the economy grew 4.5 percent in 2021.
An oil pump jack pumps oil in a field near Calgary in a file photo. (Todd Korol/Reuters)
The mining/oil and gas industry has shown the strongest growth over the past 12 months, at 18.6 percent, according to the bank. A vital part of Canada's economic growth comes from exports, and oil and gas is one of the country's most important products. With the price of U.S. benchmark oil rising from below US$50 a barrel to over US$80 for a short period, Canadian oil producers finally had some good news.
Canada's labour market has seen a remarkable bounce-back in jobs recovered; however, it still faces about 1 million job vacancies. Businesses are finding it hard to hire qualified workers, and analysts say there are significant mismatches between what employers are looking for and what skills job-seekers have to offer. The result is trending in the direction of higher wage costs for less qualified people, which results in lower productivity.
Election, Legislation, and Provincial Relations
The biggest political event of the year, the Sept. 20 election, brought little change to the composition of the House of Commons, while giving the Liberals another minority government and new faces in some government departments.
But the campaign trail and wedge issues brought more lasting trends in Canadian politics.
A private member's bill crafted by Tory MP Cathay Wagantall in the last Parliament to ban sex-selective abortion was used by the Liberals to depict Conservatives as wanting to repeal Canada's abortion laws. It soon became evident that the Conservative leadership wanted to distance the party from the issue and indeed any abortion-related matters. Still, a handful of Conservative MPs have voiced concerns at events held outside Parliament about the Liberals' plan to strip pro-life pregnancy centres of their charitable status.
In the new Parliament, the Conservatives also initiated the fast tracking of the conversion therapy bill, which had been used by the Liberals to paint Tory MPs as supporters of the practice. In the previous Parliament, some Tory MPs had asked for clarifications to be added to the bill's definitions to ensure conversations between parents and children aren't criminalized, and Justice Minister David Lametti had said expanding the ban to adults would not be constitutional. However, the bill was expanded in scope to include adults and was passed in the new Parliament without debate or discussions in either the House or the Senate.
A person holds an Elections Canada voter information card after receiving it in the mail on Aug. 31, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
The Conservatives also backed down from their initial opposition to a requirement for MPs to present COVID-19 vaccination proof before being allowed into the House of Commons, despite concerns that the requirement infringes on members' parliamentary privileges.
After the election, the Liberals again avoided forming a coalition, choosing instead to reach agreements with different parties on a case-by-case basis to pass legislation introduced by their minority government. The Liberals and the NDP joined forces to pass a motion to continue hybrid sittings of the House, against the wishes of the opposition Conservatives and Bloc Québécois, who wanted in-person operations.
The push to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 accelerated in 2021 with a number of initiatives including federal legislation, such as Bill C-12 passed in June that sets five-year national emissions reduction targets. The Liberals announced a host of new climate change policy initiatives after winning the election, with more in the works for future years. They include an end to subsidies that help oil and gas companies expand outside the country by the end of 2022, and a plan announced by Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault to mandate auto dealers to sell electric vehicles.
Federal pandemic aid continued in 2021, with the Liberal government getting the approval of Parliament—at 5 p.m. on Dec. 16, just before it recessed for the holidays—for another $7.4 billion, which was later revealed to actually cost $11.9 billion.
Among the most contested pieces of legislation was Bill C-10, introduced late in 2020 to regulate online streaming services. Opposition parties fiercely criticized the bill out of concern that it would result in regulating online content and curtail freedom of speech.
Bill C-10 died when Parliament was dissolved for the election. But the Liberals campaigned on reviving the proposed legislation, along with a host of other legislation intended to regulate speech, such as laws against "hate speech" online.
During the short period between the election and when Parliament resumed, the Liberals tabled a number of proposed pieces of legislation. One was Bill C-3, prompted by COVID-related protests at hospitals, which adds a Criminal Code offence for anyone who acts "with the intent to provoke a state of fear" to prevent someone from obtaining health services or to impede health professionals or their assistants from doing their jobs. Another was Bill C-22, which reduces mandatory minimum sentences for many drug and weapon offences, including certain violent gun crimes.
In December, the federal government issued a formal apology to those impacted by sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. The scandal has seen a number of top brass expelled from their roles, with some facing charges through the courts.
In the same month, Ottawa allocated $40 billion to compensate First Nations children harmed by the situation on reserves, and also to reform the child-welfare system. The broader topic of the welfare of indigenous children was front and centre throughout the year, with the discovery of unmarked graves on sites of residential schools said to belong to children, while more detailed examinations are pending.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault hold a press conference at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 2, 2021. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick)
The $40 billion spending is contingent on Ottawa and child-welfare advocates reaching an agreement over compensation the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the federal government pay First Nations children and their parents or grandparents. The tribunal ruled that the children suffered as a result of the government's inadequate funding for child and family services in their communities, saying it resulted in families being separated.
Provinces opposed to the federally imposed requirement for a carbon tax were dealt a heavy blow in March after the Supreme Court of Canada said Ottawa has the constitutional right to impose carbon prices on the provinces. This leaves Bill C-69, legislation imposing more regulation and review processes on major projects such as pipelines, as Alberta's only legal challenge against the federal government.
In June, MPs passed a motion to acknowledge Quebec's right to unilaterally change the Constitution to declare the province a nation and acknowledge French as its only official and common language. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said in November that he wants a "nation within a nation" status recognition for his energy-rich province and to have more autonomy on issues such as taxation, after the federal government announced a plan to cap oil and gas emissions.
Federal politicians ended the year with the hot potato of Quebec's Bill 21 banning the public display of religious symbols for government employees, after a teacher was removed from her position for wearing a hijab. Federal party leaders have declared their disdain for any discrimination, while at the same time being careful not to risk losing any Quebec votes.
Canada-China Relations
The good news of 2021 was the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor after close to three years of imprisonment in China—Beijing's retaliation over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition request in late 2018.
But little is known about what went on behind the scenes, why the United States relented on its request to have Meng extradited, and what the implications are for future attempts at hostage diplomacy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou returns to a court hearing following a lunch break in Vancouver on Aug. 18, 2021. (Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)
In a year-end interview with Global News, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the CCP plays democracies against one another to see them compete for access to economic opportunities in China, noting that like-minded countries should mount a "united effort" against Beijing.
These comments by Trudeau on communist China were stronger than any he had made in the past. Compared to the early days of the Liberal government, a soft stance became increasingly harder as Beijing arbitrarily detained Kovrig and Spavor and applied a host of import blockages, delivering major blows to certain sectors of Canada's economy. Nevertheless, Trudeau and his cabinet abstained from voting on a House of Commons motion in February recognizing Beijing's persecution of Uyghurs as genocide. Despite that, the motion passed with the unanimous approval of all MPs who voted.
David Mulroney, a former Canadian ambassador to China who has been critical of the Trudeau government's approach to the Chinese regime, said the prime minister's year-end comments are a start but cover only "about 5% of the problem," while pointing out it's not clear what Canada's China policy is going into the new year.
"Now let's hope he reflects this in policies, appointments, and partnerships that advance the national interest rather than imperil it. His target for 2022?" Mulroney said in a tweet.
Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos suggested in a tweet that if Trudeau "means what he says," he should ban Huawei from Canada's 5G network.
Canada is currently the only country in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance that hasn't banned or planned to phase out Beijing-linked Huawei's infrastructure from its 5G network.
Ottawa also still maintains its $256 million commitment to China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Canada decided to send athletes to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics but joined allies including the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Games over China's human rights abuses.
The issue of Beijing's interference in Canada was highlighted during the federal election as MPs who were vocal against the CCP's human rights and interference records found themselves targets of misinformation attacks, resulting in losing their seats in some cases.
"We believe that the timing and content of narratives indicate the likelihood of a coordinated influence operation targeting Chinese-Canadian voters," says a Dec. 1 report by DisinfoWatch.
To the disappointment of China watchers in Canada and diaspora groups such as Alliance Canada Hong Kong, the Conservative Party said in December that it won't be pushing for the resumption of the Canada-China special parliamentary committee. Despite that, foreign affairs critic Michael Chong insisted that his party still maintains its strong stance on China's aggressions and human rights violations.
Canada ended the year without an ambassador to China after the incumbent Dominic Barton resigned from his post and joined Rio Tinto, an Australian multinational mining corporation with major operations in China. Prior to his diplomatic post, Barton was an executive with managing consulting firm McKinsey & Company who had dealt heavily with China. During his term as ambassador, he frequently called for closer ties between Canada and China.
Barton was the second consecutive ambassador to China who was on very friendly terms with the Chinese regime. The ambassador he succeeded, former Liberal MP John McCallum, was fired from his post for publicly stating his wish for Meng to be released.
Canada-US Relations
Despite predictions of a less turbulent Canada-U.S. relationship due to closer ideological alignment between the Biden administration and the Trudeau government, things got off to a rocky start after President Joe Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline project on his first day in office.
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House, Nov. 18, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Heads turned in Canada when Biden told Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a one-on-one meeting in September that the United States "has no closer or more reliable ally than Australia." That special status had previously been reserved for Canada.
Biden's remarks came just days after the United States, Australia, and the UK announced a new alliance, dubbed AUKUS, centred on acquiring nuclear submarines, from which Canada was left out.
More thorny issues arose toward the end of the year as the Biden administration imposed a number of protectionist measures injurious to Canada's economy.
These include U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, as well as the Biden administration's plan to provide US$12,500 in incentives for Americans to buy electric vehicles made in the United States with unionized labour, putting Canadian-made EVs at a disadvantage.
On the issue of Enbridge's Line 5, which crosses into the United States and which Michigan wants shut down, some good news emerged for Canada in November when the White House said it was not considering shutting down the pipeline. Meanwhile, Enbridge's legal challenge with Michigan continues making its way through the courts.
2021 also brought good news for Enbridge's Line 3, which carries crude oil from Alberta to Wisconsin. The company cleared legal hurdles initiated by environmental activists and completed the rebuild of the pipeline.
Inflation and Cost of Living
Ending the year 2021 and going into 2022, inflation became one of the biggest concerns for Canadians as various factors led to persistent rapidly rising prices for food, shelter, and transportation.
Policy-makers were quick to call the phenomenon "transitory," meaning that they expected it to dissipate before too long. Instead, for eight straight months, consumer prices rose faster than the Bank of Canada's 3 percent upper limit for the inflation target range. The central bank's primary responsibility is targeting 2 percent for inflation.
A women leaves a grocery store using plastic bags in Mississauga, Ont., in a file photo. (The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette)
Supply chain disruptions have been singled out as the primary reason for the higher inflation. Some economic pundits also point to the extraordinary support measures extended to households and businesses amid the pandemic, as well as rock-bottom interest rates that stimulated demand—especially for goods.
The carbon tax has been less widely discussed given the bigger supply-side bottlenecks, but it's nevertheless an incremental cost for farms and other businesses that has contributed to rising prices. At the same time, oil supply proved inadequate and oil prices rose significantly, adding to the cost of producing many goods.
At the end of 2020, inflation was just 0.7 percent per annum, but November 2021's inflation rate was 4.7 percent—the highest in 18 years.
Heading into 2022, the Bank of Canada is expected to start raising interest rates to cool inflation. The central bank expects inflation to fall to its target level by the end of the year.
Devastating floods in B.C. in November led to the tragic loss of four lives, but fortunately nowhere near the hundreds of lives lost during the heat wave that hit the West in the summer. The two events caused similar levels of loss of livestock life, estimated at around 650,000 for each.
A man drives a boat down a flooded road in Chilliwack, B.C., on Nov. 16, 2021. (The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward)
November's torrential rain caused landslides, demolished ailing dikes, and washed out highways, temporarily cutting off access to roads and the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port. The weather event served as a reminder of Canada's dire infrastructure needs.
A 2017 report by the Boston Consulting Group showed that Canada's infrastructure investment trailed other OECD countries from the mid-1970s to 2005, and since then has been playing catch-up, with an estimated infrastructure deficit of between $110 billion and $270 billion.
By all accounts, soccer was a success story for Canada in 2021.
Canadian women have long been among the strongest in the world, and in 2021 they captured their biggest prize—an Olympic gold in Tokyo.
The Canadian men's soccer team also held its own in its attempt to qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. At a little over midway in the final qualification tournament, Canada currently sits in first place after beating mighty Mexico in Edmonton's blistering cold of November. Qualification plays resume in late January.
Damian Warner reacts after winning the gold medal for the decathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Leylah Fernandez became the latest Canadian sensation to make a splash on the world stage when she defeated three top-five players en route to the 2021 US Open final.
The Tokyo Olympics saw Canadian sprinter Andre de Grasse win gold in the 200 metres and bronze in the 100 metres. Damian Warner captured the heart of Canadians after winning gold in the decathlon and breaking an Olympic record. Swimmer Penny Oleksiak, 21, became Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian after she won three medals at the Tokyo Olympics, bringing her total Olympic medal count to seven.
The Montreal Canadiens reached the Stanley Cup final, but what might be most remembered is how they came back to beat the heavily favoured Toronto Maple Leafs in the seventh game after losing three of the first four games.


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Jacoby's is sold, will remain the same old-style German biergarten under new ownership
Posted By Serena Maria Daniels on Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:00 AM
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Jacoby's German Biergarten, dubbed downtown's "oldest saloon," has been sold, but fans can rejoice.
The drinking hall will be spared the fate of being retrofitted into a hipster cocktail bar because its new owners promise to keep its old-school vibe as is.
According to Crain's, the new ownership under an entity called LVT Properties LLC, only plans to make needed updates, such as to the kitchen equipment and bathrooms.
The property had been on the market for more than three years, with a listing price of $799,000. A Larry Jacob, who tells the biz publication that he's the LLC's operating manager, says "we intend to keep it the way it is, as far as the heritage of the place" and that the food and drinks will remain the same.
That's perhaps welcome news for folks who lament the decline of Detroit's old-style bars.
Detroiters have a fierce loyalty to their favorite drinking spots, with writers publishing heartfelt eulogies about them when they close, and longtime fans making pilgrimages back to them to give them a proper send-off.
When these spaces are transformed into something else, the "New Detroit" red flags go up and the change, whatever it is, can be met with protest. Last month, for example, the now-shuttered Casey's Pub in Corktown became the target of upset when it was announced that it would become into a dive that bar specialized in Cali-style tacos and fresh-juice margaritas.
As for Jacoby's, the saloon opened its doors in 1904, first under the name Jake's Tavern. When bartender Albert Jacoby took over, it was renamed and he brought in his soon-to-be wife Mina to cook. It remained a family-owned business for four generations.
Most recently, Jacoby's had been owned by Chicago investor Wally Wolf, who listed the 3,900-square-foot building, liquor license, and equipment for sale 3 1/2 years ago, Crain's says.
While it remains to be seen whether Jacoby's new operators will honor their promise to respect its turn-of-the-20th-century German roots, we'll cautiously raise a glass in hopes that they do.
See also: Casey's Pub in Corktown to be recast as a street food dive with 'killer' tacos
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Once again a great event put on by DKC. Being a new track there we some teething issues but DKC, AKRA and all the competitors worked together to make a fun event. The track was very technical and very fun to drive. We got lots and lots of practice and we burned through all our gas proving that. Thanks to all the people who make a great event like this possible.
-Paddock Layout. NCM had us paddocked at either end very far away from bathrooms and pit lane entrance because an autocross event was being held on Sunday were we should have paddocked behind garages. Hopefully we can get normal paddock next time and autocross could be held closer to the east track.
-PA system. Currently there is no PA system but as track continues to get built up these will get installed.
-Spectator Viewing. There is not currently good spectator viewing and the 4′-5′ pit wall and 3 layer tall armco makes viewing the karts difficult. But new scoring tower with observation deck could fix these issues.
-Pit Lane Entrance and Exit to Track. Not sure if these can be fixed easily but DKC did a great job of working around track design issues and making it as easy as possible to get on and off track.
Number were not great and its disappointing to see such a great event not better attended. Hopefully racers start coming back out soon or great events like this won't even be able to happen. I'll try and post video soon so people can see what a fun track it was and get out there again.


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