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pcinews_twt MAY 20, 2022 www.canadianinquirer.net VOL. 8 NO. 490

WINNING SENATORS

The 12 winning senators in the recent elections raise their hands during their proclamation on Wednesday (May 18, 2022) at the PICC Forum Tent in Pasay City. From left are Senators Joel Villan-
ueva, Jinggoy Estrada, Robin Padilla, Loren Legarda, Chiz Escudero, Raffy Tulfo, Sherwin Gatchalian, Mark Villar, Alan Peter Cayetano, Juan Miguel Zubiri, JV Ejercito, and Risa Hontiveros.
JESS M. ESCAROS JR/PNA

Comelec proclaims 21

12 new senators
BY FERDINAND PATINIO
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – Three neophytes, five
former legislators and four reelection-
ist lawmakers comprised the 12 new-
ly-elected senators in the just-conclud-
ed May 9 national and local polls.
The new senators who will have a
fresh 6-year term that will end in June
2028, were proclaimed by the Commis-
sion on Elections (Comelec), sitting
as the National Board of Canvassers
(NBOC) headed by Chairman Saidamen UP snaps 36-year UAAP
Pangarungan, on Wednesday afternoon title drought
at the Philippine International Conven-
tion Center (PICC) Forum Tent in Pasay
City.
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place with 26,612,434 votes, is a first
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2 Philippine News
Duterte OKs law protecting
financial consumers
BY AZER PARROCHA
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – Senator Emm-
MANILA – Financial consum-
ers will now have more protec-
tion against cybercrime under
a new law signed by President
Rodrigo R. Duterte.
Republic Act (RA) No. 11765
or the “Financial Products and
Services Consumer Protec-
tion Act”, signed by Duterte on
May 6, recognizes that the state
must implement measures to
protect consumers rights’ such
as right to equitable and fair
treatment; right to disclosure
and transparency of financial
products and services; right to
protection of consumer assets
against fraud and misuse; right
to data privacy and protection;
and right to timely handling
and redress of complaints.
Comelec ready to answer
petition filed vs. Marcos
before SC
BY FERDINAND PATINIO
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – The Commission
on Elections (Comelec) is ready to
follow orders from the Supreme
Court (SC) in connection with the
petition to stop Congress, sitting
as the National Board of Canvass-
ers (NBOC), from counting the
votes of presidential frontrunner
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos
Jr. in the May 9 polls.
“The Comelec will always
abide by any notice and decision
of the highest court of the land,”
said Acting Comelec Spokes-
man John Rex Laudiangco in a
press briefing Tuesday.
“We will await the decision of
the Supreme Court on the mat-
ter,” he added.
The poll body official is re-
acting to the petition filed by
Fr. Christian Buenafe, among
others, which also asks to re-
consider the decision of the
“It is the policy of the state to
ensure that appropriate mech-
anisms are in place to protect
the interest of consumers of
financial products and services
under the conditions of trans-
parency, fair, and sound market
conduct, and fair, reasonable,
and effective handling of finan-
cial consumer disputes, which
are aligned with global best
practices,” the law read.
These mechanisms reinforce
their confidence in the financial
market and foster the stability of
the Philippine financial system.
RA 11765 gives financial reg-
ulators authority to formulate
their own standards and rules
of business conduct for finan-
cial entities.
“Financial regulators may
also determine reasonable-
ness of interest, charges or
fees which a financial service
provider may demand, collect,
Commission to dismiss the dis-
qualification case against the
former senator.
For his part, Comelec Com-
missioner George Garcia said it
is the right of the petitioners to
seek relief by elevating the case
to the High Tribunal.
“This is within their rights to
seek redress to the High Court of
something they believe is a valid
justiciable controversy,” he said.
Incidentally, Garcia has in-
hibited in all cases before the
Comelec involving Marcos.
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or receive for any service or
product offered to a financial
consumer. Likewise, they may
issue their respective rules of
procedure concerning adminis-
trative actions arising from the
implementation of this act,” the
new law read.
The law also gives financial
regulators authority to impose
enforcement actions on their
respective supervised financial
service providers for noncom-
pliance with this act and other
existing laws pertinent to the
jurisdiction and authority of the
respective financial regulators.
They will also have the au-
thority to adjudicate reim-
bursement of lost funds within
a certain threshold.
RA 11765 states that financial
regulators must prepare the nec-
essary rules and regulations to im-
plement the provisions of this act
within one year from its effectivity.
On Tuesday, the petitioners
filed their petition before the
High Court asking to issue a tem-
porary restraining order (TRO)
against Congress, sitting as the
NBOC, and prevent it from can-
vassing votes for Marcos.
Likewise, they asked the SC to
reverse and set aside the decision
of the Comelec en banc, which
earlier dismissed the disqualifica-
tion cases filed against the presi-
dential candidate, who is leading
in the unofficial canvass of votes
in the presidential race. ■
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It was passed by the Senate
as Senate Bill No. 2488 on Feb.
2, 2022 and adopted by the
House of Representatives as an
amendment to House Bill No.
6768 on Feb. 2, 2022.
Financial consumers refer to
persons or entities, or their duly
appointed representatives, who
are purchasers, lessees, recipi-
Pres. Rodrigo Duiterte (JOEY DALUMPINES/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)
Marcos offers
Cabinet posts to
Ople, Laguesma
BY FILANE MIKEE
CERVANTES
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – Presumptive
president Ferdinand “Bong-
bong” Marcos Jr. has offered
Cabinet positions to former
Labor Secretary Bienvenido
Laguesma and overseas Fili-
pino worker advocate Susan
“Toots” Ople, his spokesperson
said on Tuesday.
In a press conference, spokes-
person Atty. Vic Rodriguez said
Laguesma is being eyed as the
head of the Department of Labor
and Employment, while Ople
was asked to lead The Depart-
ment of Migrant Workers under
the incoming administration.
“Sila ay very warm ‘yung pag-
tanggap (They had very warm
reception), they were honored,”
Rodriguez, who also heads the
Marcos transition team, said
in a press conference in their
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ents, or prospective purchasers,
lessees or recipients of financial
products or services.
Financial regulators refer to
the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
(BSP), Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), Insurance
Commission (IC), and the Co-
operative Development Au-
thority (CDA). ■
headquarters in Mandaluyong.
Rodriguez said Laguesma and
Ople were honored by the offer,
but asked for more time to con-
sult their families and friends.
“Humihingi lang sila ng
kaunting panahon para makon-
sulta at makausap ‘yung kanil-
ang mahal sa buhay, siguro ‘yung
ilang kaibigan at ‘yung mga ta-
ong kanilang pinaniniwalaan at
pinakikinggan at hinihingan ng
payo (They are just asking for
time to consult and talk to their
loved ones, friends, and people
they trust for advice),” he said.
The Marcos camp has earlier
announced that presumptive
Vice President Sara Duter-
te would take the helm of the
Department of Education,
while former Metropolitan
Manila Development Author-
ity (MMDA) Chair Benjamin
“Benhur” Abalos Jr. is set to be-
come the next secretary of the
Department of the Interior and
Local Government. ■
FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
Marcos, Xi discuss
relations, regional
dev’t
BY JOYCE ANN L.
ROCAMORA
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – Chinese Presi-
dent Xi Jinping and presump-
tive president Ferdinand “Bong-
bong” Marcos Jr. talked over the
phone to discuss the two nations’
relations and developments in
the region, the Chinese Embassy
in Manila said Wednesday.
During the call, Xi said the
two countries should “grasp
the general trend, write a grand
story on the China-Philippines
friendship in the new era and
follow through the blueprint for
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bilateral friendly cooperation.”
“Citing a Philippine saying:
‘If you do not know where you
have come from, you cannot
go far,’ President Xi urged both
countries to carry forward the
friendship of the two sides and
stay true to their original aspi-
ration,” the embassy said.
Xi congratulated Marcos
anew, citing the latter’s partic-
ipation in “the development of
China-Philippines relations.”
He also called Marcos “a build-
er, supporter and promoter of the
China-Philippines friendship.”
The Chinese leader’s phone call
was made on Wednesday morn-
ing, according to the embassy. ■
Comelec proclaims 12...
1 Villar, who was a for-
❰❰
mer Las Piñas Rep-
resentative, is also a
first time member of the Upper
House. He got 19,475,592 votes
(6th place).
The five former senators
that also took their oaths were
former Antique Representa-
tive Loren Legarda, who is in
second place with 24,264,979
votes; former Sorsogon Gover-
nor Chiz Escudero, 20,271,458
(5th); former House Speaker
Alan Peter Cayetano, 19,295,314
(7th); JV Ejercito, 15,841,858
(10th) and Jinggoy Estrada,
15,108,220 (12th).
Reelectionist senatori-
al candidates who were able
to enter the “Magic 12” were
fourth placer Senator
Sherwin Gatchalian
with 20,535,261 votes;
Senator Miguel Zubiri,
18,734,336 (8th); Sena-
tor Joel Villanueva with
18,486,034 votes (9th);
and Senator Risa Honti-
veros, 15,420,807 (11th).
Aside from Pangarun-
gan, the other members
of the Commission en
banc were Commission-
ers Socorro Inting, Mar-
lon Casquejo, Aimee Fer-
olino, Rey Bulay, Aimee
Neri and George Garcia,
who took turns in pre-
senting the Certificate of
Proclamation to each of
the winning senators.
The proclamation
was conducted sans the Elec-
tion Returns from Shanghai,
China, which has yet to hold
an election because of the lock-
down being implemented by
the host country due to coro-
navirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)
cases. There are 1,991 Filipino
registered voters there.
The poll body will be setting
a special polls in Shanghai as
soon as the Chinese govern-
ment lifted the lockdown.
Also, the Commission has ap-
proved the conduct of special
elections in in the Municipality
of Tubaran, Lanao del Sur on
May 24, 2022
“Whereas, the total number
of registered voters in Lanao del
Sur is 685,643 while based on the
tabulated National Tally Sheet
(Report No. 7), the difference
between the 12th ranked and the
13th ranked senatorial candi-
dates is 1,844,655 votes,” said the
NBOC in Resolution No. 022-22.
“Whereas, on May 17, 2022,
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the NBOC approved in open
session the recommendation
of the Supervisory Committee
that the National Board of Can-
vassers can already proceed to
proclaim the 12 winning candi-
dates for senator ranked from
1st to the 12th based on the elec-
tion results from the 172 out of
the 173 COCs canvassed by the
NBOC considering that the
election results in Shanghai and
the Province of Lanao del Sur
will no longer affect the ranking
of the 12 winning candidates for
senator,” it added.
Meanwhile, the poll body chief
congratulated the Filipino peo-
ple for being part of a successful
holding of the May 9 polls.
“As we usher in a new set of
The glory
does not
belong
solely to the
winners of
the elections.
leaders from the local govern-
ment units up to the national
positions, I am proud to say that
the Commission on Elections
has successfully defended the
sovereign right of the people to
the democratic process of elec-
tions,” he said in his speech.
“The glory does not belong
solely to the winners of the elec-
tions. It belongs also to the vot-
ers who stood patiently in line
to cast their votes in an election
with one of the highest voter
turnouts in recent history. This
is an election with the lowest
election-related violence of only
16 incidents compared to 160 vi-
olent incidents in the 2019 elec-
tions,” Pangarungan added.
He also acknowledged their
partners and other stakehold-
ers that also contributed to the
success of last week’s elections.
“And significantly, this is an
election with a very efficient and
flawless Transparency Server
that received all election results
3
in record time immediately after
voting on election day. The swift-
est transmission was witnessed
by the watchful eyes of all repre-
sentatives of political parties, the
PPCRV (Parish Pastoral Council
for Responsible Voting), NAM-
FREL (National Movement for
Free Elections) and other citi-
zens’ arms,” he said.
“I would also like to express
my appreciation to all the wom-
en and men of the Commission
who gave their support to en-
sure an orderly and successful
election. My colleagues and fel-
low Commissioners, thank you
for your wholehearted support.
Even as we look into the reports
of VCM errors and a few other
glitches in this election, I trust
that the Commission en
banc shall continually
improve on the election
process,” Pangarungan
added.
He also thanked the
Department of Educa-
tion and all the teachers
and their support staff,
the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, the Phil-
ippine National Police,
the Philippine Coast
Guard, the DOST (De-
partment of Science and
Technology), the DICT
(Department of Infor-
mation and Commu-
nications Technology),
and the Comelec Advi-
sory Council.
“I also extend our
heartfelt gratitude to the De-
partment of Foreign Affairs, the
Embassies and Posts around the
world as they made sure that
every Filipino voter in different
foreign countries could exercise
their right to vote. To our citi-
zens’ arms, the PPCRV, NAM-
FREL, the IBP (Integrated Bar
of the Philippines), LENTE, As-
sociation of Asian Election Au-
thorities, the KBP (Kapisanan
ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas),
foreign and local observers, the
National Press Club, and mem-
bers of traditional media, your
help enhanced the transparen-
cy of our elections. The energy
sector, the communication sec-
tor, thank you for your valuable
cooperation,” the poll body chief
added.
The Comelec recorded 83.11
percent voter turnout in last
week’s polls. The number rep-
resents 55,549,791 out of the
66,839,976 registered local and
overseas voters.■
4 Philippine News
New SK law Launching gantry ‘speeds
grants youth up’ Malolos-Clark railway
council officials construction
monthly honoraria
BY RUTH ABBEY GITA-
CARLOS
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – President Rodri-
go Roa Duterte has signed a law
expanding the functions of the
Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) to
revitalize the youth participa-
tion in local governance.
Republic Act (RA) 11768,
inked by Duterte on May 6, di-
rects the formulation of inter-
nal rules and procedures within
60 days from the assumption of
SK officials to office.
The new law also mandates the
appointment of SK secretary and
treasurer, as well as the holding
of regular SK meetings and Kati-
punan ng Kabataan assemblies.
The SK members, including
the treasurer and secretary, will
receive a monthly honorarium,
chargeable against the SK funds,
in addition to any other com-
pensation provided by RA 11768.
The monthly honorarium will
be granted at the end of every
regular monthly SK meeting.
The honorarium, based on
RA 11768, will not exceed the
monthly compensation re-
ceived by the SK chairperson.
“Not more than 25 percent of
the Sangguniang Kabataan funds
shall be allocated for personal
services,” the law read. “The local
government units (LGUs) may
provide additional honorarium
(SANGGUNIANG KABATAAN/FACEBOOK)
as well as social welfare contribu-
tions and hazard pay to the Sang-
guniang Kabataan chairperson
and the elected and appointed
members through their own lo-
cal ordinances.”
All SK officials are entitled
to the appropriate civil service
eligibility based on the years of
service to the village pursuant
to the rules.
Under RA 11768, the SK trea-
surer and secretary must be at
least 18 years but not more than
30 years old of age on the day of
the appointment.
The SK chairperson is des-
ignated to appoint a treasurer
with an educational or career
background relating to busi-
ness administration, accoun-
tancy, finance, economics, or
bookkeeping.
The appointed SK treasurer
is mandated to undergo book-
keeping training from, and be
duly certified by, the Technical
Education and Skills Develop-
ment Authority (TESDA) be-
fore assumption to office.
The appointed treasurer of
the SK will also be prioritized in
the allocation of the appropri-
ate TESDA scholarships.
The amounts necessary to
carry out the implementation
of RA 11768 will be charged
against the SK funds or as may
be authorized by the LGUs.
The Palace released a copy of
RA 11768 on Tuesday. ■
BY RAYMOND CARL DELA
CRUZ
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – The construction
of the North-South Commuter
Railway (NSCR) Malolos-Clark
segment reached a milestone
on Tuesday with its first use of
a launching gantry—a special
purpose mobile gantry crane
used in bridge construction.
The Department of Transpor-
tation (DOTr) said the launching
gantry—dubbed ‘Luid’ or ‘Mabu-
hay’ in Kapampangan—represents
the first time such equipment was
used in Pampanga province.
“Luid will travel 5.5 kilometers
between Barangay Lourdes, Mi-
nalin in Pampanga and Barangay
Gatbuca, Calumpit in Bulacan,
and will be utilized to construct
the railway viaduct,” the DOTr
said on its Facebook post.
The launching gantry will lift 16
35-ton pre-casted segmental box
Ivermectin clinical trial
in PH will no longer push
through
BY MA. CRISTINA
ARAYATA
Philippine News Agency
MANILA -- The country will no
longer push through with the con-
duct of ivermectin clinical trial,
Department of Science and Tech-
nology (DOST) Secretary Fortu-
nato de la Peña announced Friday.
“The DOST, upon the recom-
mendation of the DOH (Depart-
ment of Health) and the PCHRD
(Philippine Council for Health
Research and Development)
Governing Council, has decided
to discontinue the study to eval-
uate the efficacy, safety, and ef-
fect on the viral clearance of Iv-
ermectin in Covid-19 patients,”
he said in a taped report aired in
the afternoon.
The study would supposed-
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The launching gantry dubbed ‘Luid’ used in the construction of the NSCR Ma-
lolos-Clark segment. (DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - PHILIPPINES/FACEBOOK)
girders and combine them into one
40-meter railway viaduct span.
“In total, Luid will create 140 rail-
way viaduct spans,” the DOTr said.
It said Luid is only one of 11
launching gantries that will be
operated in the Malolos-Clark
segment of the NSCR system.
The use of launching gantries, it
said, is an “internationally recog-
nized method of construction to
ensure the safe, efficient, and qual-
ity construction of the NSCR.”
It noted that the launching
gantries were procured through
official development assistance
ly document the local experi-
ences, how participants would
respond, and if there would
be adverse effects. Over 1,000
non-severe patients are need-
ed to participate in the clinical
trials. The figure includes mild
and asymptomatic patients.
PCHRD executive director
Jaime Montoya earlier said a
randomized double-blind place-
bo-controlled trial will be done,
which may help health experts
determine if the drug can reduce
the number of days the patient
will experience symptoms.
Recruitment of participants
was initially targeted at least
early June 2021, but was later
moved to October 15, 2021.
De la Peña confirmed to the
Philippine News Agency that the
DOST has started with the pre-
paratory work, but clinical trials
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(ODA) loans from the Asian De-
velopment Bank (ADB).
The NSCR system—operated
by the Philippine National Rail-
ways (PNR)—is a mass trans-
port rail system from Clark
International Airport (CRK) in
Pampanga to Calamba, Laguna.
The DOTr said the NSCR is
seen to create “over 47,000 direct
jobs and 106,000 indirect jobs”
during its construction, contrib-
uting to post-Covid-19 and eco-
nomic growth in Luzon, partic-
ularly in Region 3, 4-A, and the
National Capital Region. ■
have not been conducted yet.
In the taped report, he said the
delays on the deliverables, and
the lack of clinical benefits of iv-
ermectin based on recent studies,
were among the reasons the clini-
cal trial will no longer be held.
It may be recalled that in one
of President Rodrigo Duterte’s
Talk to the People sessions in
September 2021, De la Peña
told him that the initial analysis
was likely to start in December
2021, and that the project might
be finished by February 2022.
Meanwhile, the issuance of
the recommendation against
the use of ivermectin, and the
availability of effective thera-
peutics for the early phases of
Covid-19, were the other rea-
sons to no longer conduct the
study, De la Peña said.■
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6 Philippine News
Senate to prioritize
admin agenda that will
benefit Filipinos
BY WILNARD BACELONIA
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – Majority Lead-
er Juan Miguel Zubiri said he
would lead the formation of a
majority bloc in the 24-member
Senate to help pursue the legis-
lative agenda of presumptive
President Ferdinand “Bong-
bong” Marcos Jr.
Zubiri said on Tuesday that
they are looking forward to
working productively with the
new administration for the good
of the people even as other sen-
ators vowed to stay independent
amid an impending “superma-
jority” in the 19th Congress.
“By tradition, we in the work-
ing majority will decide and
elect the officers and leadership
in due time. This will be done in
a democratic manner, based on
qualifications and values that
will uphold the traditions of the
Senate as an institution,” Zubiri
said in a statement.
Senator Sonny Angara said
they belong to different politi-
cal parties with different princi-
ples, ideologies, and advocacies.
“I think the 18th Congress
provides a good model for the up-
Malacañang website suspended
for updates: Museum admin
BY AZER PARROCHA
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – President Rodri-
MANILA – The official web-
site of Malacañang, which also
stores repositories of the Pres-
idential Museum and Library
(PML), is temporarily inacces-
sible due to updates in its con-
tent, the museum administra-
tion said on Monday night.
The PML released this state-
ment following concerns that
historical records, including those
of the Martial Law regime, have
been deleted from its website.
“Please be informed that, con-
trary to reports that it has been
(SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES/FACEBOOK)
coming 19th Congress in terms
of work ethic, leadership, pro-
ductivity. Debates were long and
robust but much legislation was
passed to help our countrymen
during a very tough time in our
history. The Senate helped the
President and his administration
help our countrymen in their
time of need with expanded and
unprecedented aid programs,”
Angara said in a statement.
Senator Christopher “Bong”
Go said he will always respect
the decision of the majority and
will continue to work “silently”
for the interest of the Filipinos.
deleted, the website malacanang.
gov.ph is merely suspended fol-
lowing measures to update the
content therein and improve its
security features,” the PML said
on its official Facebook page.
The museum administration
also assured that all historical
records are intact.
“Rest assured that the con-
tents of the said website have
not been compromised and will
be made available to the public
at the soonest possible time.
Thank you,” it added.
The PML is in charge of pre-
serving, managing, and promot-
ing the history and heritage of
the Philippine presidency.
Updates on the website came
“Pwede po sigurong tabihan
ko si (I can stay close to) [Sen-
ator] Lito Lapid,” he said in jest
in an interview.
Go said there is nothing
wrong with speaking up if
something is wrong or support-
ing the government if it is doing
the right thing.
“Ang makikinabang po dito
ang mga Pilipino. ‘Yung mga
mahihirap, ma-i-ahon lang po
natin. Magtulungan lang po tayo
(The one who should always
benefit are the Filipinos. The
poor ones, let’s help them. Let’s
just help each other),” he said. ■
a few days after the May 9 elec-
tions and saw presumptive pres-
ident Ferdinand “Bongbong”
Marcos Jr. leading the presiden-
tial race by a large margin with
more than 31 million votes over
Vice President Leni Robredo,
with more than 14 million votes.
Marcos is the son and name-
sake of former president Ferdi-
nand Marcos Sr.
Former Presidential Com-
munications Development and
Strategic Planning Office Un-
dersecretary Manolo Quezon
III was the first to notice that
the website had gone down.
“malacanang.gov.ph where
the repositories of the Presiden-
tial Museum and Library were,
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Congress to
canvass votes for
President, VP on
May 24-27
BY FILANE MIKEE
CERVANTES
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – Congress will start
the canvassing of votes for the
presidential and vice presidential
races from May 24 until May 27.
Secretary General Mark
Llandro Mendoza said the can-
vassing will begin on May 24 at
2 p.m., while from May 25 to 27,
it will be scheduled from 10 a.m.
to 10 p.m.
Under the Constitution, the
election returns for president
and vice president, duly certi-
fied by the Board of Canvassers
of each province and city, shall
be transmitted to Congress.
Upon receipt of the certificates
of canvass, the President of the
Senate shall, not later than 30
days after the day of the election,
open all certificates in the pres-
ence of the Senate and the House
of Representatives in joint public
session, and the Congress, upon
determination of the authentic-
ity and due execution thereof in
the manner provided by law, can-
Facade of the Malacañang Palace as seen from Pasig River. (OFFICIAL GAZETTE
OF THE PHILIPPINES)
is gone,” Quezon said in a tweet.
However, he said the contents
of the website were already ar-
chived before June 30, 2016.
“To be clear: deleting http://
malacanang.gov.ph could be as
simple as someone wanting the
MAY 20, 2022 FRIDAY
vass the votes.
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco
rallied his fellow lawmakers
to exercise prudence and dili-
gence as Congress, sitting as the
National Board of Canvassers,
gears up for the canvassing of
votes and proclamation of the
country’s next president and
vice president.
“As Members of Congress, it
is our constitutional mandate
to receive and canvass the votes
for the two highest leaders of
our country - our next Presi-
dent and Vice President,” Vel-
asco said.
“May we all undertake this
task with a profound, and even
critical, awareness that we are
entrusted by the Filipino peo-
ple with this duty to ensure that
our choice of leaders is the le-
gitimate expression of the will
of our people,” he added.
Senate President Vicente Sot-
to III earlier said Congress will
be tasked to proclaim the win-
ners of the presidency and the
vice presidency for the May 9,
2022 elections, which is expect-
ed to be done by May 27 or 28. ■
online real estate for some oth-
er government purpose, or lack
of interest in a museum site.
Content there was archived
before June 30, 2016 in site for
public access/use so beyond
gov’t reach,” he added. ■
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Duterte inks law extending
validity of firearms licenses
BY AZER PARROCHA
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – President Rodri-
go R. Duterte has signed a law
extending the validity of the
license to possess firearms and
ammunition.
Republic Act (RA) No. 11766,
signed by Duterte on May 6, ex-
tends the validity of the license
to possess firearms and ammuni-
tion from two years to five or 10
years, amending RA 10591 or the
Comprehensive Firearms and
Ammunition Regulation Act.
“All licenses to possess a fire-
arm, regardless of type or clas-
sification, shall be renewed ev-
ery five years or ten years, at the
option of the licensee, which
shall be reckoned from the
birthdate of the said licensee,
unless sooner revoked or sus-
Sara Duterte may take
oath ahead of June 30:
Comelec
BY FERDINAND PATINIO
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – An official of
the Commission on Elections
(Comelec) on Tuesday said
there is nothing wrong with the
plan of leading vice presidential
candidate Sara Duterte to hold
her oath taking ahead of June
30, the official start of her term.
According to Comelec Com-
missioner George Garcia, the
former Davao City mayor may
proceed to hold her oath 11 days
ahead of the beginning of her
term as the second highest offi-
cial of the country.
“It can be done earlier. This
is as long as they assume office
at 12:01 p.m. on June 30 and the
content of the oath is similar
to the one in the Constitution.
That’s what is provided for by
the Constitution,” he said in a
press conference.
“It is not indicated in the law
that the actual oath should hap-
pended,” RA 11766 read.
It added, “failure to renew
the license on or before the date
of its expiration shall cause the
revocation of the license and of
the registration of the firearm or
firearms under said licensee.”
Similarly, the registration of
the firearm must be renewed
every five or 10 years, at the op-
tion of the licensee, which must
be reckoned from the birthdate
of the said licensee unless soon-
er revoked or suspended.
Failure to renew the registra-
tion of the firearm on or before
the date of expiration will cause
the revocation of the license of
the firearm. The said firearm
will be confiscated or forfeited
in favor of the government after
due process.
“The failure to renew a license
or registration within the periods
stated above on two occasions
pen at exactly 12 noon of June
30,” the poll body Commission-
er added.
Garcia said conducting oath
of office ahead has been done in
the past.
“If I remember correctly,
there were two former presi-
dents, who took their oath at
11:45 a.m., not 12 noon. Is that
a violation of the Constitution?
Nobody questioned,” he said.
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shall cause the perpetual dis-
qualification of the holder of the
firearms from applying for any
firearm license,” the law read.
The application for the re-
newal of the license or registra-
tion may be submitted to the
Firearms and Explosives Office
(FEO) of the Philippine Nation-
al Police within six months be-
fore the date of the expiration
of such license or registration.
RA 11766 likewise states that
the permit to carry firearms
outside of residence will be val-
id for two years from the date
of approval of the application,
unless sooner revoked or sus-
pended.
The new measure now in-
cludes elected incumbent and
former officials and active and
retired military and law enforce-
ment personnel to be exempted
from the requirement of a threat
Earlier, the presidential
daughter said they are eyeing
to have her oath taking as vice
president on June 19 in Davao
City, her native place.
She added that they want her
oath of office to be conducted
ahead as she also would like to
witness the inauguration of her
tandem and leading presiden-
tial bet Ferdinand “Bongbong”
Marcos Jr. ■
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assessment certificate.
Also exempted are members
of the Philippine Bar; certified
public accountants; accredited
media practitioners; cashiers,
bank tellers’ priests, ministers,
rabbi, imams; physicians and
nurses; engineers; business-
men who, by the nature of their
business or undertaking, are
exposed to high risk of being
targets of criminal elements.
Under the law, the chief of
the Philippine National Police
Duterte condoles with
UAE over Sheikh
Khalifa’s death
BY LADE JEAN KABAGANI
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – President Rodrigo
Duterte on Wednesday sent his con-
dolencestotheUnitedArabEmirates
(UAE) over the passing of president
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Sheikh Khalifa, 73, died on
May 13, after battling illness for
several years.
“President Rodrigo Roa Dute-
rte extends his deepest condo-
lences to the Government and
people of the United Arab Emir-
ates on the passing of His High-
ness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al
Nahyan, President of the UAE,”
the Office of the President (OP)
said in a press statement.
The late UAE president was
rarely seen in public since suf-
fering a stroke in January 2014.
Sheikh Khalifa’s half-broth-
er, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed
Al Nahyan, has been elected as
the new UAE president.
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(PNP) must formulate the rules
and regulations for the effective
implementation of the law.
The non-issuance of the im-
plementing rules and regula-
tions must not prevent the im-
plementation of this act upon
its effectivity.
RA 11766 is a consolidation
of Senate Bill No. 1155 and
House Bill No. 10610, which was
passed by the Senate and the
House of Representatives on
Feb. 2, 2022. ■
The Palace said Duterte’s Special
Envoy, Secretary Robert Borje, per-
sonally conveyed the Chief Execu-
tive’s sympathy message to Sheikh
Mohammed, who has been serving
as the de facto leader of the UAE be-
fore being named as the new ruler
of the Middle East nation.
“The President conveys the Fil-
ipino nation’s solidarity with the
UAE in this period of great loss
and bereavement,” the OP said.
Duterte, Malacañang said, hailed
Sheikh Khalifa’s “legacy of leader-
ship, wisdom and benevolence.”
“The President said His High-
ness Sheikh Khalifa will long be
remembered even beyond the
UAE for his legacy of leadership,
wisdom and benevolence,” it said.
Duterte also honored Sheikh
Khalifa as “a bold visionary” whose
leadership was crucial in the UAE’s
sustained economic transformation.
He also acknowledged Sheikh
Khalifa’s vital role in keeping a
“deeper” engagement with the
international community, in-
cluding the Philippines.■
8 Philippine News MAY 20, 2022 FRIDAY

PRRD signs law promoting

foundlings’ rights
BY RUTH ABBEY GITA-CARLOS,
WILNARD BACELONIA
Correspondent/Hosts Philippine News Agency
Bea Kirstein T. Manalaysay
Joanna Belle Deala
Kathleen Mae Guerrero
Arianne Grace Lacanilao MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte
Violeta Arevelo
Babes Newland has signed into law a measure promoting
Matte Laurel the rights of deserted or abandoned chil-
Graphic Design
dren with unknown parents and recogniz-
Shanice Garcia ing their status as natural-born citizens.
Ginno Alcantara Under Republic Act (RA) 11767 or the
Arlnie Colleene Talain Singca
Foundling Recognition and Protection
Account Manager Act, an abandoned child found in the Phil-
Kristopher Yong ippines or in Philippine embassies, consul- Pres. Rodrigo Duterte (KARL ALONZO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)
Director/Producer
ates, and territories abroad is presumed a
Boom Dayupay natural-born Filipino citizen, regardless of and obligations provided by law to le- “May it provide them with the peace of
the status or circumstances of birth. gitimate children born to them without mind and closure that some of them seek
Photographers/Videographers
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“As a natural-born citizen of the Philip- discrimination of any kind. until this very day. May it also remind
pines, a foundling is accorded with rights First-hand experience them that regardless of where they came
Operations and Admin and protections at the moment of birth Senator Grace Poe thanked her fellow from, they are just as important and wor-
Victoria Yong equivalent to those belonging to such lawmakers and President Duterte for thy as anybody else,” said Poe, who was
Amelia Insigne
class of citizens whose citizenship does the law as she recalled that her status raised by the late actor Fernando Poe Jr.
Management not need perfection or any further act,” as an adopted child was raised when she and his actress-wife, Susan Roces.
Alan Yong read RA 11767, inked by Duterte on May 6. ran for the presidency in 2016. Senator Risa Hontiveros, the princi-
The presumption of natural-born sta- Poe said that period opened her eyes to pal author of Senate Bill 2233 which be-
tus of a foundling may not be impugned the necessity of the law, saying foundlings are came RA 11767, said Poe’s case hounded
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regulations and taking into consideration the ready a subject of a legal discussion, wheth- accorded with alternative childcare op-
best interest of the child,” RA 11767 states. er my being a senator was legal because of tions, which include “kinship care, fos-
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opted foundling shall be considered the citizen. Imagine the hurt of thousands of tent with existing laws, while the search
Instagram: @pcinews_ig legitimate child of the adopter for all in- Filipinos who do not know who their bio- and inquiry into the facts of birth and
Twitter: @pcinews_twt tents and purposes. logical parents are,” she added. parentage of the foundling is ongoing”.
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BY JOYCE ANN L. ROCAMORA
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – The Philippine Embassy in
Tripoli on Tuesday reminded Filipinos in
Libya to be vigilant following the armed
clashes in a neighborhood in the capital.
“Armed conflicts have been reported
early this morning as of May 12, 2022,
in Tripoli. The public is advised to avoid
Seaside Road, Omar Mukhtar and Al
Jalila Streets, and other nearby affected
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areas,” the Embassy said in an advisory.
“Please take extra precautions and
maintain situational awareness at all
times as we monitor the situation,” it
added.
In case of emergencies and incidents,
the Filipino community in the country is
advised to immediately reach out to the
Embassy through the following:
ATN Hotline: 0944541283
Consular Hotline: 0926976523
Email: tripoli.pe@dfa.gov.ph
The Embassy said all consular ser-
vices are indefinitely suspended starting
May 17.
The clashes reportedly started in Jan-
zour area, a densely populated neigh-
borhood in Tripoli, last May 15, involv-
ing indiscriminate fire and the alleged
use of heavy weapons.
In a May 16 statement, the United Na-
tions Support Mission in Libya said “the
current mobilization of forces affiliated
with different armed groups creates ten-
sions and increases the risk of clashes
that could spiral into armed conflict.” ■
FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022 9

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Masks no longer required for public servants
at desks and in meetings with distancing
BY KATHRYN MAY physically distancing and out- gical masks indoors when it’s
Policy Options doors in crowded situations. difficult to social distance, such
Several executives, not autho- as in elevators, entrances, hall-
rized to speak publicly, said ways and stairways. Masking
New guidelines allow for full many people were reticent to is not required when working
building occupancy phased-in return to the office because outdoors. Departments are en-
over the summer so that em- they found wearing a mask all couraged to continue to provide
ployees can “get a feel for it.” day uncomfortable. masks and foster a mask-friend-
Big ramp-up expected by fall. It’s expected that the return ly workplace so people feel
OTTAWA – The federal gov- will be phased in through the comfortable wearing one when
ernment is easing COVID-19 summer with a big ramp-up by not required.
restrictions for public ser- September. Richard said de- The screening and tracking
vants, allowing a full return of partments are aiming to have of employees and visitors at
workers to office buildings that telework agreements with the office are being discontin-
largely sat empty for more than employees by the fall, which ued in most places. Previously,
two years. will lay out where they work, those who were not fully vacci-
The new health guidelines whether remotely or how many nated or had approved vaccine
will allow a return to offices days a week they will be in the exemptions were screened and
at full occupancy with some office. forced to take rapid tests to help
preventative mea- prevent anyone
sures. The big with the virus from
change is employ- going to the office.
ees don’t have to Departments are
wear masks at asked to keep sig-
their desks or in nage warning those can’t impose a one-size-fits-all ernment’s mandatory vaccina-
meetings as long as who are sick not approach for departments be- tion policy, the biggest preven-
they can social-dis-
The big change is to enter the work- cause they have unique man- tion tool in the government’s
tance. employees don’t have to place. Preventative dates with workplaces as differ- layered approach to stop the
Dany Richard, measures, such as ent as parks, boats, submarines, spread of COVID-19 at work.
a union president
wear masks at their desks ventilation, clean- prisons or science laboratories. The government is reviewing
and co-chair of the or in meetings as long as ing and hand hy- It’s led to a mishmash of ap- the mandate, introduced last
joint union-man- giene are still rec- proaches. Some employees are October, to decide whether to
agement National
they can social-distance. ommended. mandated to come back for lift or extend it. The mandate
Joint Council, said These guidelines two or three days; others get requires all public and RCMP
departments will apply to depart- to choose with their managers. employees to prove they’re ful-
be conducting pilot ments in the core Unassigned seating is expected ly vaccinated against COVID-19
projects with the public service for to be the norm in many depart- or face unpaid leave.
new guidelines in which Treasury ments – unless workers have a Today, more than 98 per cent
place. Board is the em- disability or are working every of public servants are fully vac-
He said departments are urg- Under the new guidelines, ployer. More independent or day at the office. Whether de- cinated. Vaccine mandates are
ing employees to come back to in-person client services can separate agencies such as the partments have the technolo- also imposed on employees of
the office for a few days to “get resume like normal as long as Canada Revenue Agency, Parks gy capacity and bandwidth to federally regulated industries.
a feel for it” after two years of employees, clients, visitors and Canada, and Canadian Food manage a workforce between The unions have supported
working at home. Departments the public wear masks when Inspection Agency, are encour- home and office is still an is- the vaccine mandate but are
could adjust their return-to-of- interacting with each other in- aged to follow suit. sue. Many employees also took pressing for the unvaccinated
fice planning based on the feed- doors. The guidelines are recom- home their computer equip- to be allowed to return to work.
back they get from employees, Another change is employ- mendations, not mandatory. ment, even their chairs, to work They could be accommodated
he added. ees who have a close contact Enforcement is up to deputy with, and that will have to be re- by testing or allowing them to
Compared with other em- with COVID-19 can come to the heads, who are responsible for turned or replaced. work remotely. ■
ployers, the federal govern- office as long as they are symp- the health and safety of their After two years, many public
ment has been slow in staging tom-free or have been told by employees and the manage- servants are entrenched in their This article was produced
the return of workers to the of- public health officials that they ment of their organizations. preference to work from home with support from the Accen-
fice since the Omicron variant do not need to quarantine. Any- The government is shift- and will resist going back to the ture Fellowship on the Future of
hit at Christmas and put return one who tests positive or has ing to a hybrid workforce, office. Managers are braced for the Public Service. Read more of
plans on hold. symptoms should stay home for where employees work a mix employees who want to work Kathryn’s columns here.
The government loosened at least seven days and be symp- of in the office and at home. remotely to look for jobs with This article first appeared
restrictions slightly in March, tom-free upon return. How this unfolds is all over departments offering that. on Policy Options and is repub-
but employees still had to wear Employees are also asked the map. Treasury Board has The guidance, however, lished here under a Creative
masks indoors, even when to wear N95 respirator or sur- argued from the start that it makes no mention of the gov- Commons license.
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The Liberal politicization of charitable status
BY ANDREAE SENNYAH
Policy Options
Denying status to anti-abor-
tion organizations goes against
the neutrality in charitable reg-
istration that allows for a broad
range of charities.
The prime minister’s latest
mandate letter to the minister
of finance directed her to bring
in “amendments to the Income
Tax Act to make anti-abortion
organizations that provide dis-
honest counselling to pregnant
women about their rights and
options ineligible for charita-
ble status.” The Liberal gov-
ernment’s platform cited crisis
pregnancy centres as part of a
non-exhaustive list of implicat-
ed organizations.
This policy targets a specific
set of charities with views that
differ from the government’s
position on a particular issue. It
is a threat to freedom of expres-
sion in a pluralist society and
sets a troubling precedent for
the politicization of charitable
status in Canada.
Charities in Canada may
To reduce corporate emissions,
CEOs need to be bold risk takers
BY ASHRAFEE TANVIR
HOSSAIN, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
The Conversation
Climate change is widely
recognized as one of the most
profound challenges ever to
face the human race and life on
Earth. Among the different fac-
tors identified by climate scien-
tists, greenhouse gas emissions
— which have doubled since
1990 — are the main contribu-
tors to global climate change.
As significant contributors to
the climate crisis, carbon-emit-
ting companies are under in-
creasing regulatory and social
pressure to reduce their car-
bon footprints. Long-term cli-
mate change results can only
be achieved by identifying why
certain firms are still emitting
such high amounts of green-
house gases and addressing
those underlying causes.
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operate for the following pur-
poses: the relief of poverty, the
advancement of education, the
advancement of religion, or
other purposes that benefit the
community. The government
has limited capacity to meet all
the needs of communities across
the country. Given this limita-
tion, private citizens organize
and engage in a range of char-
itable activities to serve their
fellow Canadians. One of the
primary benefits of becoming
a registered charity is the abili-
As a society, we are prone to
reactionary, not preventative,
approaches when it comes to
addressing the environmental
harms done by corporations.
The Canadian federal govern-
ment’s proposed tax credit for
investing in carbon capture,
storage and removal is one re-
cent reactionary example. If we
want to meet our climate goals,
we need to use more preventa-
tive approaches.
Risk taking and climate
change
In a recently published paper,
my colleagues and I examined
whether a CEO’s risk aversion
influenced corporate carbon
emissions. Risk aversion is the
extent to which CEOs “play it
safe” when it comes to deci-
sion-making. A risk-averse CEO,
for example, will not make risky
investments — even if those in-
vestments have the potential to
be profitable in the long term.
Our research confirmed our
ty to provide individual donors
with charitable tax credits, thus
incentivizing more giving. Fun-
damental to this system is that
charities — even and especially
those with different views from
the government — are equally
eligible for charitable status.
Policy
The Constitution Act, 1867
gives exclusive power to the
provinces for the “establish-
ment, maintenance, and man-
agement of…charities.” Howev-
er, administration of charitable
initial hypothesis that risk-averse
CEOs were more likely to lead
firms with higher carbon emis-
sions. They were unwilling to take
the bold steps necessary to invest
in greener projects to reduce their
carbon footprints. Instead, they
usually made immoral, yet ra-
tional, decisions that prioritized
profit over sustainability.
From an economic perspec-
tive, it’s rational for CEOs to
invest in sectors that increase
carbon emissions, if those sec-
tors make them money. How-
ever, investing in those sectors
is also immoral because of the
detrimental impacts carbon
emissions have on the environ-
ment and people’s lives.
Ultimately, bold and
risk-seeking CEOs are the ones
responsible for the drastic
changes needed to reduce cor-
porate emissions. For example,
Maple Leaf Foods president
and CEO Michael McCain made
the bold move take his company
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registration is governed by the
federal Income Tax Act. Both
federal and provincial/territo-
rial governments administer
charitable tax credits.
Further, the entire system is
underpinned by the common law
precedent of what qualifies as a
charitable purpose. No specific
details of the government’s pro-
posal have been shared publicly.
However, given these overlap-
ping constitutional, legislative,
jurisdictional and common law
influences, we are left to wonder
if the federal government has
the authority to legislatively dis-
establish an entire subgroup of
charities in the first place.
To be clear, dishonest practic-
es by any charity are unquestion-
ably wrong and should be ad-
dressed. While the government
has not defined what dishonesty
would legally entail, the Income
Tax Act already prohibits dis-
honesty in various forms. The
Canada Revenue Agency’s stat-
ed approach to non-compliance
is usually progressive, seeking
to educate first and deregister as
a last resort. If dishonesty were
a genuine concern, the govern-
Carbon-emitting companies are significant contributors to the climate crisis.
carbon neutral in 2019. Other
CEOs should follow suit.
Enticing CEOs with better pay
CEOs are the strategic lead-
ers of corporations and, often,
their pay is the only leverage
their companies have on them.
Because of this, one of the most
effective ways to reduce a firm’s
carbon footprint over the long
run is to entice CEOs with mon-
etary compensation.
MAY 20, 2022 FRIDAY
ment’s policy would address it
through education and across
the entire charitable sector. It
does not. This decision demon-
strates the punitive and politi-
cized nature of this policy.
Politics
There are 86,000 registered
charities operating across the
county. Together they make up
8.5 per cent of Canada’s GDP
and employ 1.5 million work-
ers (10 per cent of the national
workforce). Their work covers
different areas, from arts and
culture, environmental issues,
social services and religious or
educational causes. Charities
are supported by millions of
Canadians each year. In 2019
alone, a total of $10.3 billion
in charitable donations was
claimed on tax returns.
It is unquestionable that the
views of charities and donors
in such a large sector are var-
ied. That is the logic of the sys-
tem. Neutrality in charitable
registration allows charities to
express a broad range of views.
Donors are then able to sup-
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While there may be short-
term repercussions for investing
in carbon footprint reductions,
such as lower profitability, cash
depletion or increased debt,
this should not impact CEO pay.
Instead of punishing CEOs for
implementing environmentally
friendly policies, they should be
compensated.
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FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
The right to transportation should be a key
issue in the Ontario election
BY JOSHUA K. MCEVOY,
Queen’s University, Ontario
The Conversation
With high gas prices and cli-
mate change top of mind for
many in Ontario, transporta-
tion is shaping up to be a key
battleground in the upcoming
provincial election.
The Progressive Conserva-
tives have pledged $25.1 billion
to highway expansion and reha-
bilitation if re-elected in June.
The NDP platform includes a
commitment to cover 50 per
cent of municipal public and
para-transit operating costs
and to do away with public-pri-
vate partnerships. Meanwhile,
the Liberal party made a splash
when it announced its inten-
tion to reduce public transit
fares to $1 for a single trip or
$40 for a monthly pass across
the province until 2024.
It is rare for transportation
to feature centrally in an elec-
tion. As a researcher studying
environmental politics and
political economy, it is encour-
aging to see a sector responsi-
ble for the largest percentage
of greenhouse gas emissions
in the province feature promi-
nently in political debate.
Indeed, mobility has always
been a deeply political subject
that affects almost every aspect
of daily life. This is because mo-
bility infrastructure, as polit-
ical theorist Langdon Winner
explains, is “a way of engineer-
ing relationships among people
that, after a time, becomes just
another part of the landscape.”
Mobility infrastructure in-
cludes roads, sidewalks, buses,
bridges, pathways, light rail and
access ramps. Mobility research
tells us that the way these things
are configured, maintained and
governed reflects and produc-
es particular political interests
and social justice outcomes.
With this in mind, it is crucial
that we ask who our mobility
infrastructure is for and what
purpose it serves.
Car politics
Take, for example, the domi-
nance of the automobile today,
which came about through sig-
nificant public subsidization of
automobile infrastructure to
expand private vehicle owner-
ship. This was neither apolitical
nor natural.
In fact, a significant amount
of academic research suggests
that state intervention in fa-
vour of automobiles reflected
and helped produce an indi-
vidualized, resource-intensive
consumer society.
This had an immediate and
lasting impact on social jus-
tice outcomes. In a study of
the impacts of the Highway
Act of 1956, civil rights law-
yer and legal scholar Deborah
Archer found that highway
construction planners dispro-
portionately targeted poor and
predominantly Black commu-
nities. The effect was to “sym-
bolically and physically encour-
age racial segregation.”
The economic and health im-
pacts of demolishing homes and
businesses in favour of highways in
these communities endure today.
Uneven access to mobility
has proven challenging to undo.
Much of the car-centric mobil-
ity infrastructure built in the
postwar era is still with us or
has expanded.
In Canada, cities have been
designed around the movement
of cars. Vast areas have been
paved and residential areas have
been built close to high-volume
roads, contributing to poor
health outcomes related to pol-
lution and excessive summer-
time heat. Low-income areas are
disproportionately affected.
Infrastructure is political
In recent years, research has
expanded our understanding of
these dynamics and linked them
to the role of infrastructure de-
velopment in settler-colonialism,
racial capitalism and patriarchy.
Infrastructure in Indigenous
communities is chronically un-
derfunded. Many remote north-
ern communities rely on tempo-
rary ice roads to access southern
municipalities in the winter,
and these ice roads are becom-
ing less reliable due to climate
change. For those with all-year
road access, the reduction of
Greyhound bus routes in 2018,
followed by the end of the com-
pany’s operations in 2021, cut
off many Indigenous communi-
ties from urban centres and the
family, employment, health and
other services located there.
Indeed, the National Inqui-
ry into Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls,
found that the “lack of support-
ive infrastructure and transpor-
tation” created significant risk.
The pandemic’s effects
The pandemic has only
served to further heighten and
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highlight transportation safe-
ty issues. Since the onset of
COVID-19 in 2020, we have
seen how the mobility of pub-
lic transit users and those who
walk or wheel for transporta-
tion has been negatively im-
pacted by diminished service
and maintenance.
Data from the United States
also suggests pedestrian in-
juries and deaths, which have
been on the rise for a decade,
spiked during the pandemic.
We know too that transpor-
tation-related injuries are not
evenly distributed, with Indig-
enous and racialized peoples
and those in low-income areas
being much more likely to be
injured or killed.
Just and equitable access
to mobility
This raises important ques-
tions about how to make sure
our mobility infrastructure is
accessible, safe, equitable and
sustainable. We need to ensure
that infrastructure investment
is not solely aimed at spurring
capitalist growth, as many have
called for, but serves the needs
of all its users.
In this sense, we need to ask
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what vision for the future our
leaders, like those vying for po-
litical office in Ontario, have for
mobility. But, more important-
ly, we need to recognize that the
changes required to create a just
and sustainable transportation
system cannot be achieved in a
single election but only through
systemic, structural changes in
how we think about, govern and
build mobility.
Toward this aim, research-
ers and activists — like those at
The Untokening, a collective fo-
cused on mobility justice — have
advanced the concept of mo-
bility justice as a “social move-
ment to protect and reclaim
the shared mobility commons.”
Mobility commons, according
to sociologist Mimi Sheller, are
“co-operative” and “shared in-
frastructures of movement,” in
contrast to the enclosed, pri-
vate and exclusionary systems
that are dominant today.
There are many movements
currently working to increase
access to shared, collective
forms of transportation. These
include movements calling for
fare-free transit, to reduce the
policing of mobility, disabili-
ty transportation equity, bet-
ter sidewalk maintenance and
a public intercity bus service
among others.
Mobility justice can only be
achieved by taking the politics
of movement seriously. This
means planning processes must
not only listen to, but meaning-
fully include and be governed
by the communities that will
use the infrastructure.
It means remaking mobility
systems so that they are democrat-
ically controlled, equitably distrib-
uted and accessible to all. ■
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Canada’s premiers are missing a real chance
to fix our ailing health-care system
BY TOM MCINTOSH,
University of Regina
The Conversation
When Canada’s premiers
doubled down earlier this year
on their demand for a $28 billion
unconditional increase in the
Canada Health Transfer (CHT),
they missed an opportunity to fi-
nally achieve the kind of health-
care reform our underperform-
ing system has been told it needs
over and over again.
The rationale for this demand
is that the system is chronically
underfunded (itself a debatable
contention), and this is suppos-
edly because, as Saskatchewan
Premier Scott Moe is fond of
tweeting: “Ottawa used to fund
50 per cent of health care costs
and now only funds 22 per cent
of those costs.”
The premiers are also sug-
gesting they’re being modest
in their demands. They’re not
asking for a return of the 50/50
deal struck in the 1960s, but
only that Ottawa up its share to
35 per cent.
As I’ve argued previously, the
premiers’ demand fundamental-
ly misrepresents the history of
health-care financing in Canada.
They have forgotten that the
50/50 deal ended in 1977 with
the full consent of the provin-
cial governments. Since then,
the size of the federal cash
transfer for health has been
subject to both intense feder-
al-provincial diplomacy and
federal unilateralism.
Their misleading take on his-
tory aside, the premiers seem
determined that any increase
in health funding from Ottawa
pertains to the more or less un-
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be granted available
government program
or service such as registration, fa-
cilitation of documents for adop-
tion, education, legal and police
protection, proper nourishment
and medical care for survival and
development, and admission to
safe and secure child centers.
The NACC, through the Re-
gional Alternative Child Care Of-
fice, shall conduct a proactive and
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conditional general CHT, set at
$45 billion to the provinces in
2022-23 — and not part of an
agreement that might specify
priorities for action and reform
on their part.
Health accords didn’t
bring about change
It’s clear that national ac-
cords, like those in 2000, 2003
and 2004, did little to effect real
change in the system, although
the 2004 Health Accord did
provide stable and predictable
increases in the CHT.
When the 2004 accord expired
in 2017, neither the federal nor
the provincial governments were
in the mood for another grand
bargain. Instead, Ottawa took a
very different tack. It agreed to
a 3.5 per cent annual increase
in the CHT (up from a three per
cent from 2014 to 2017) and to
provide an additional $11.5 bil-
lion in targeted funding for im-
diligent search and inquiry into
the facts of birth and parentage
of the foundling, within 15 days
after commitment or submission
of the affidavit of the finder or
other concerned person, or after
the information that there is a
probable foundling.
An affidavit of the finder,
certification of the village cap-
tain or police authority on the
foundling’s discovery, and NA-
CC’s report must be submitted
provements to community and
mental health care.
In order to receive the cash,
provinces had to sign bilateral
agreements that set out, in vary-
ing degrees of detail, where and
how the money would be spent.
As a colleague and I have ar-
gued elsewhere, these bilateral
agreements, though still imper-
fect, are a markedly improved way
of increasing transparency about
where health-care dollars go.
They could also serve as an
accountability tool for measur-
ing progress focused not just on
fixing but actually improving
Canada’s publicly administered
health-care system.
In all likelihood, Ottawa will
want to continue what it started
in 2017 and tie any significant
funding increase to a new set of
bilateral agreements based on
priorities chosen by the prov-
inces. It’s just as likely that this
to register the foundling with
the Local Civil Registrar, ac-
cording to RA 11767.
The biological parents, the
NACC or the LSWDO may file a
petition for the revocation of the
certificate of live birth before the
Local Civil Registrar, if the par-
entage of the foundling has been
established or if there is a fraud
to conceal the material facts of
birth or parentage of the person
that would otherwise not render
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is what the premiers are really
trying to avoid.
The impact of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic
presents us with a unique op-
portunity to rethink and reform
public health care in Canada.
There is no doubt that the
system was hit hard — its capac-
ity was stretched, its workforce
took a still uncalculated toll and
all manner of service delivery
was interrupted. Most notably,
surgical wait times (already a
serious problem in Canada’s
system) were made worse, with
one report indicating Ontario
alone had a backlog of a million
surgical procedures.
Furthermore, the pandemic
exposed profound problems in
long-term care and community
and mental health-care systems.
It’s precisely because of so
many simultaneous challeng-
es that we should be thinking
not just of rebuilding Canadian
health care, but undertaking the
necessary and long demanded
changes that would create a
21st-century publicly funded
and administered health-care
system.
There are two likely sce-
narios.
In the first, Ottawa agrees to a
significant increase in the CHT
and the provinces simply take
the money without making any
of the necessary changes to how
and what services are delivered
(much as the Senate concluded
happened with the $40 billion
provided by the 2004 Health
Accord). At best, that means we
return to a pre-pandemic status
quo in which the provincial sys-
tems continue to lose ground.
In the second, new agree-
ments target the funding to
the person as a foundling.
“The biological parent/s or
legal guardian of a foundling
may petition the NACC to re-
cover the legal custody and re-
store parental authority over
the child,” the law read.
The law also contains a provision
for a “Safe Haven” provider that is
tasked to take care of the infant.
To develop and implement
more responsive policies, plans
and programs for foundlings,
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remake the health-care work-
force, make better progress on
primary health-care reform, re-
configure long-term care, build
real community-based mental
health care or reconfigure the
continuum of care to manage
wait times on an ongoing basis.
Co-operation from pre-
miers needed
The second will not happen
without some form of condi-
tionality, transparency and ac-
countability from the premiers
themselves. Unfortunately,
the 2017 bilateral agreements
contain no obligation on the
provinces’ part to report on
achievements relative to their
commitments.
Asking provinces to report to
the federal government on how
they manage their constitution-
al responsibilities for health
care could be taken as a violation
of provincial sovereignty. But
they should not refuse to report
to their own residents.
It’s hardly inappropriate for
Ottawa to insist that provinc-
es report to their residents on
any targeted funding aimed at
priorities the provinces them-
selves commit to tackling.
So, unless and until the pre-
miers agree to set out — perhaps
in a new set of bilateral agree-
ments — how they intend to
spend and report on the 62 per
cent increase in transfers they
are demanding to actually bring
about real change in their re-
spective health systems, Ottawa
should refuse. And Canadians
themselves should just say no. ■
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regular and synchronized data
collection shall be conducted by
local government units in coor-
dination with the Philippine
Statistics Authority, NACC, and
other relevant stakeholders.
All benefits provided un-
der RA 11767 shall also apply
to foundlings duly registered
during their childhood but have
reached the age of majority
without benefitting from the
adoption process. ■
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Russia’s reported abduction of Ukrainian children
echoes other genocidal policies, including US
history of kidnapping Native American children
BY MARCIA ZUG, University
of South Carolina
The Conversation
Allegations have emerged re-
cently that Ukrainian children are
being forcibly removed from their
country by Russia. Once there,
they are put up for adoption.
These tactics are horrific, but
far from rare. There is a long his-
tory of military aggressors forci-
bly transferring enemy children
from their home countries as a
means of sowing chaos and ter-
ror and weakening resistance.
In the U.S., the government
conducted child abductions to
quell the military resistance of
America’s Indigenous peoples
and prevent future opposition.
The Nazi practice of kidnap-
ping “racially desirable chil-
dren” from conquered countries
and raising them as Germans
has been well documented.
And the communists’ abduc-
tion during the 1940s of nearly
28,000 Greek children to com-
munist countries was also well
known. The Greek delegation to
the United Nations successfully
pushed for the inclusion of child
transfers within the legal defini-
tion of genocide specifically be-
cause of these abductions.
Child abductions are consid-
ered so heinous that the very
first genocide convictions were
of 14 Nazi officials charged with
forcibly transferring Polish
children to Germany. At trial,
prosecutor Harold Neely sug-
gested child abduction might
even be the most outrageous of
all the Nazis’ crimes. Neely said
the world knew about mass kill-
ings and atrocities by Nazis, but
he added, “the crime of kidnap-
ping children, in many respects,
transcends them all.”
In signing on to the genocide
convention – an international
treaty that criminalizes genocide
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– in 1948, the U.S. agreed that
forcible child transfers consti-
tute genocide. Yet it continued
its own practice of Native child
abductions for another 30 years.
Children as ‘hostages’
Beginning in the Colonial
era, the American military
kidnapped Native American
children as part of a deliberate
strategy to undermine tribal re-
sistance and force native nations
to agree to colonists’ demands.
Eleazer Wheelock, Dartmouth
College’s founder, recruited stu-
dents from local tribes because
he recognized the tribes’ military
importance. Wheelock referred
to these children as “hostages.”
During the Revolutionary
War, Congress appropriated
US$500 to Dartmouth, osten-
sibly to educate Native Amer-
ican boys, but also because it
believed their presence at Dart-
mouth would prevent the boys’
tribes from joining forces with
the enemy British.
By the 19th century, the kidnap-
ping of Native children from their
families to send them to govern-
ment-funded boarding schools
was a widely practiced means of
quelling Native resistance.
As Richard Henry Pratt,
founder of the Carlisle Indi-
an Industrial School, the first
American Indian boarding
school, explained in an 1878
federal report, one of the ben-
efits of these institutions was
the children could be used as
“hostages for good behavior of
[their] parents.”
‘Kill the Indian and save
the man’
In these boarding schools,
Native children were beaten,
starved and sexually assaulted.
A just-released report from the
U.S. Department of the Interi-
or acknowledges that children
in these schools were forced to
perform hard labor and were
forbidden from speaking their
Ciricahua Apache students at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania in the 1880s, after four months at the school.
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Native languages or practicing
their traditional religions or
culture. According to the re-
port, these schools “deployed
systematic militarized and
identity-alteration methodol-
ogies to attempt to assimilate
American Indian, Alaska Na-
tive, and Native Hawaiian chil-
dren through education.”
Disease and death were also
rampant. The federal report
notes approximately 19 Amer-
ican Indian boarding schools
“accounted for over 500 Amer-
ican Indian, Alaska Native, and
Native Hawaiian child deaths.
As the investigation continues,
the Department expects the
number of recorded deaths to
increase.” Other sources esti-
mate that as many as 40,000
children died at these schools.
Many American Indian par-
ents fought desperately to keep
their children. They were rarely
successful. Some parents who
refused to send their children
to these schools had their gov-
ernment food rations withheld
and faced starvation. Others
were arrested.
If parents didn’t relinquish
their children, government
workers entered the reserva-
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tions and captured the children,
roping them like cattle.
In a 1932 hearing before the
Congressional Committee on
Indian Affairs, one Native Amer-
ican father testified, “I had a boy
going to school that took sick
and brought him home, after
five days at home he died.”
Eventually, a 1928 study
known as the Merriam Report,
done at the behest of the U.S.
Interior secretary, and a 1969
Senate report titled “Indian
Education: A National Trage-
dy – A National Challenge” ex-
posed the horrors of the Indian
boarding schools, and the gov-
ernment ordered them closed.
But the removal of Native
American children by state
and federal agencies contin-
ued through adoption policies
that forced these children into
non-Native adoptive homes.
Like boarding schools which, as
Pratt stated, sought to “kill the
Indian and save the man,” the
goal of 20th-century American
Indian child adoptions was to
save Native children through
assimilation and the destruc-
tion of tribal culture.
“The aim,” said Sandra White
Hawk, founder of the First Na-
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tions Repatriation Institute, “was
assimilation and extinction of the
tribes as entities, as their younger
generations were removed, year
after year – just as it had been with
the boarding schools.
Emotional and psychologi-
cal scars
The harm caused by the
United States’ Native American
child removal policies was stag-
gering. Removed children bore
severe psychological and emo-
tional scars that many passed
on to their children and their
children’s children.
Generations of American In-
dian children lost the ability to
speak their Native language, prac-
tice their traditions and pass on
their culture. These losses threat-
ened the very existence of tribes.
As Calvin Isaac, tribal chief of
the Mississippi Band of Choc-
taw Indians, explained to Con-
gress in 1978, “Culturally, the
chances of Indian survival are
significantly reduced if our chil-
dren, the only real means for the
transmission of tribal heritage,
are to be raised in non-Indian
homes and denied exposure to
the ways of their people.”
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Almost 90% of us now believe climate change
is a problem - across all political persuasions
BY MICHELLE BADDELEY,
University of Technology
Sydney
The Conversation
If a week is a long time in pol-
itics, three years is an eternity.
Since the 2019 election, Aus-
tralia has endured devastating
megafires and unprecedented
floods. Meanwhile, news of ex-
treme weather such as India
and Pakistan’s horrific heat-
waves has poured in. And in-
ternational pressure to act on
climate change is growing.
Perhaps in response, Aus-
tralian views of climate change
have become less partisan. A
new poll my colleagues and
I organised of around 1,100
Australians found almost 90%
now believe climate change is
a problem. That’s an average
across the political spectrum,
from the Greens to One Nation.
Not only that, but almost
80% of us are optimistic, believ-
ing it’s possible for Australia to
halve its emissions by 2030.
In a similar poll we under-
took before the 2019 election,
Australians were far more
divided. Then, just 48% of
right-leaning voters (those in-
tending to vote for the Liberals,
Nationals, One Nation or Unit-
ed Australia parties) thought
government policies to address
environmental damage and cli-
mate change were important
compared to 84% of left-lean-
ing voters (those intending to
vote for the Greens or ALP).
In our 2022 poll, views con-
verged. Now, similar proportions
of left- and right-leaning voters
rate highly the need for govern-
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testimony of Chief
Isaac and other Amer-
ican Indian advocates, Con-
gress passed the 1978 Indian
Child Welfare Act.
The Indian Child Welfare Act
acknowledged the harm of these
removals and sought to address
their devastating and continuing
repercussions. This policy is con-
troversial. The act is opposed by
those wishing to adopt American
Indian children and those who
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ment action on environmental
damage and climate change.
What does that mean for this
Saturday’s federal election? I
can’t say with any certainty,
given other issues are front of
mind for many people – in-
cluding the cost of living, house
prices and rising interest rates.
But the findings do challenge
the pervading belief Austra-
lians are split on the need for
climate action.
What did we find?
In short, we found concern
for the environment is nearly
universal. Fully 94% of all voters
believe environmental damage
is a problem and 89% believe cli-
mate change is a problem.
And as for readiness to change
or help, that’s high across the
spectrum too. We found 84%
of people would now choose
an electric vehicle if they were
cheaper than internal combus-
tion engine equivalents, while
95% report recycling regularly
and the same proportion be-
lieve people should do their bit
for the environment.
Economic factors still play
a role, of course, with motiva-
tions for conserving energy
more focused on costs than the
environment: 82% conserve en-
ergy because they are worried
about climate change, but 95%
conserve energy because they
are worried about their bills.
These results come from our
polling undertaken over May
10-12 of around 1,100 Austra-
lian voters using a representa-
tive sample collected by market
research company PurePro-
file. I asked the same questions
on environment and climate
change, as well as additional
believe the act’s preference for
tribal placements is racist.
Currently, the Indian Child
Welfare Act is being challenged
in the Supreme Court. The case,
Brackeen v. Haaland, to be argued
in fall 2022, concerns the poten-
tial adoption of a Navajo child by a
non-Native couple. Under the In-
dian Child Welfare Act, such adop-
tions may only occur if there is no
extended family member, tribal
member or “other Indian family”
available to adopt the child.
questions, as those included
in a poll my colleagues and I
conducted just before the 2019
election. The answers uncov-
ered strong feelings about envi-
ronmental issues – from across
the political spectrum.
Of course, political prefer-
ences still matter. When we
asked respondents what gov-
ernment priorities on the en-
vironment should be, we saw
marked differences.
Overall, the Greens and the ALP
– unsurprisingly – ranked highly
on policies to address environ-
mental damage, climate change,
renewable energy and threatened
habitats/endangered species, with
little difference in priority be-
tween these four issues.
Those intending to vote for
an independent candidate
showed similar patterns but
with a stronger preference for
policies on renewable energy
and threatened habitats/en-
dangered species, and weaker
This provision was enacted
to keep Native children con-
nected to their families and
culture and to reverse the dev-
astation caused by the centu-
rieslong child removal policies.
At trial, the Brackeen plaintiffs
argued that this preference for
tribal and other Indian place-
ments over non-Native place-
ments is unconstitutional race
discrimination. They won.
Now, the case is before the Su-
preme Court and, although the
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preferences around climate
change policies.
Liberal Party voters were less
concerned about all four sets of
priorities, and Nationals vot-
ers less so again. Overall, the
Nationals voters rated policies
around energy and the environ-
ment least strongly compared
to the other groups of voters.
We unearthed interesting
differences between voters in
favour of newer fringe parties.
One Nation voters seem espe-
cially keen on policies to ad-
dress threatened habitats but
were the least keen to see more
climate change policies, while
United Australia Party voters
were similar to One Nation, but
not nearly so keen on policies
to address threatened habitats
and endangered species.
When we posed questions
about the current government’s
record on the environment,
we found significant dissat-
isfaction, especially for those
court has previously upheld the
constitutionality of the act, the
outcome of Brackeen is unclear.
In enacting the Indian Child
Welfare Act, Congress recog-
nized that only a comprehensive
and detailed federal statute could
possibly reverse the horrific lega-
cy of Indian child abductions.
The Brackeen case challeng-
es Congress’ ability to protect
tribes and their citizens through
the passage of laws like the In-
dian Child Welfare Act. The
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intending to vote for an inde-
pendent candidate. While those
planning to vote Liberal ranked
the government record rela-
tively highly, the overall energy
and environment report card
was poor, with respondents giv-
ing the government an average
of just under 5/10.
We also asked respondents
general questions about envi-
ronmental and energy policies
relevant to any level of govern-
ment. Interestingly, the leading
preference was for more gov-
ernment investment in public
transport. This was followed by
incentives for green homes, for
example via subsidies for insu-
lation, with better regulation
of emissions and plastics also
ranked highly.
Given the political climate
wars raging over the last decade,
it’s no surprise a carbon tax was
the most unpopular preference.
So what should we take from
this poll? Voters have become
more concerned about environ-
mental issues broadly, and are
willing to do their part.
That’s a promising sign, if the
next government can use this
groundswell to bring in policies
that would substantially acceler-
ate our progress towards net zero
emissions, and tackle our many
other environmental threats.
In recent years, Australia has
gained a reputation for drag-
ging its heels on climate action.
This survey shows that there is
a real, significant appetite for
action across the spectrum of
Australian voters. ■
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decadeslong fight over the act
highlights the long-term devas-
tation of forced child transfers,
as well as the extreme difficulty
of remedying these effects.
If Russia is forcibly adopting
Ukrainian children, then, as U.S.
history painfully demonstrates,
the trauma of these abductions
may span generations. ■
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from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
In Midwestern schools, LGBTQ teachers face
discrimination, hate and their own fears
BY FERIAL PEARSON,
University of Nebraska Omaha
The Conversation
The national debate about
LGBTQ issues in schools has
come to the Midwest. In the wake
of the passage of Florida’s so-
called “don’t say gay” law, more
than a dozen other states – includ-
ing Missouri, Iowa, Tennessee
and Ohio – have proposed similar
legislation aimed at limiting how
teachers discuss topics of gender
identity or sexual orientation.
Based on my own experience,
that of my collaborator Steven
Gill, and our initial research,
teachers in the Midwest are hav-
ing experiences similar to those
elsewhere around the country.
We have both faced invalidat-
ing, even scary, obstacles in our
journeys as out queer educators,
and we have seen our queer and
trans students suffer as well.
Our stories
For me, being a faculty spon-
sor for the school’s gay-straight
alliance student group was
both heartwarming and heart-
breaking. I started my career
at an urban school serving a
high-poverty population in Ne-
braska in 2001 and found that
the school’s GSA membership
was just a handful of students.
During my first year as a vol-
unteer sponsor of the group,
another teacher was invited by
the official sponsor to one of our
meetings and showed a video of
people claiming to be “former
More mass shootings are happening at
grocery stores – 13% of shooters are
motivated by racial hatred, criminologists find
BY JILLIAN PETERSON,
Hamline University, JAMES
DENSLEY, Metropolitan State
University
The Conversation
An apparently racially moti-
vated attack at a supermarket in
Buffalo, New York, resulted in
10 deaths on May 14, 2022, with
gays.” He then pulled out a Bi-
ble and had a discussion with
the students about how who
they were was a sin. The official
sponsor, a school counselor,
smiled throughout and let him
continue speaking.
I fought back tears of anger as
I heard students say, “I know I’m
going to hell, but I can’t control
how I feel and I’ve tried not to
be gay, but it’s impossible.” I was
furious that this was allowed to
happen in what was supposed to
be a safe and affirming space in a
public school where this type of
proselytizing should not be al-
lowed. I watched as all the con-
fidence and self-esteem drained
from the students.
When I became the official
sponsor, I ensured that teach-
er would not be allowed back to
speak to the group. Later, he told
a lesbian teacher he was praying
for her soul. Twenty-one years
later, he is still at that school – in
a leadership role.
the teenage suspect allegedly
targeting Black shoppers in a
prominently African American
neighborhood.
Mass public shootings in
which four or more people are
killed have become more fre-
quent, and deadly, in the last de-
cade. And the tragedy in Buffalo
is the latest in a recent trend of
mass public shootings taking
By the time I left in 2011, stu-
dents were out and proud as al-
lies and as a part of the LGBTQ
community. While I won two
national awards for my work
there, neither was acknowl-
edged by my school.
I witnessed students being
disowned when they came out
while also being rejected by
religious shelters. There were
many suicide attempts and
countless mental health crises,
and grades would drop as a re-
sult of bullying and harassment
by teens and adults.
I have always been out as a
queer woman, and many students
thanked me for that. But I was
told that two other teachers called
me a “dyke” in the staff lounge be-
cause I participated in the Day of
Silence to support LGBTQ rights.
Some students told me they were
praying for my soul around the
flagpole. A parent accused me of
turning his child gay because they
went home with a rainbow ribbon
place in retail establishments.
We are criminologists who
study the life histories of pub-
lic mass shooters in the Unit-
ed States. Since 2017, we have
conducted dozens of interviews
with incarcerated perpetrators
and people who knew them.
We also built a comprehensive
database of mass public shoot-
ings using public data, with the
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and he threatened to follow me
home and show me “what a real
man is.” The school had two vis-
its by the infamously homopho-
bic Westboro Baptist Church. Its
members held signs across the
street saying “God hates fags” and
tried to distribute literature to our
students as they left the school
building.
My collaborator Steve Gill
reports, “I’m a current middle
and high school social studies
teacher who is out as nonbinary,
and queer, to my students, and
my school system. When I was
going through elementary, mid-
dle, and high school and college
I had no out queer or nonbinary
or transgender teachers, or any
type of representation.
“This caused me feelings of
isolation and loneliness, as I did
not have close queer icons or
representations to look up to.
“In adulthood, as a teacher, I
firmly and confidently tell stu-
dents ‘I am Coach Gill, I go by
“Coach” because I am nonbina-
ry. I am also Black and Queer.’
I choose to be out despite the
discrimination I have faced, con-
tinue to face, and will face in the
future. I choose to be out because
representation does matter.
“I want the people in my com-
munity to know that LGBTQ
people exist in everyday jobs,
not just as famous celebrities. I
have students who come out to
me because I am a safe space.
I know of students who have
been kicked out of their homes,
misgendered, and they are
shooters coded on over 200 dif-
ferent variables, including loca-
tion and racial profile.
What do we know about su-
permarket mass shootings?
Only one shooting in our data-
base prior to 2019 took place at a
supermarket. In 1999, a 23-year-
old white male with a history
of criminal violence killed four
people at a supermarket in Las
15
mocked and ridiculed for being
out at home.”
Our survey and what the
preliminary results found
Our research shows that we
are not alone. Many schools in
the Midwest are places where
queer and trans educators can-
not thrive and do their jobs
without fear or hesitation.
We posted a preliminary
survey on social media, seek-
ing teachers in the Midwestern
states of Nebraska, Iowa and
Minnesota. Out of the 45 edu-
cators who responded, 12 place
their identities in the broad
spectrum of LGBTQ communi-
ty. But just four of them are out
in their schools.
While our initial survey data is
limited to these 45 respondents,
the results are not surprising
given our lived experiences and
other research into schools’
treatment of LGBTQ people.
But our experiences and
those of our survey participants
are being lost as lawmakers re-
strict what teachers can and
cannot say in the classroom,
how students can and cannot
participate in school programs,
and what symbols teachers can
and cannot have in their class-
rooms. We plan to conduct
more research to better under-
stand how schools can partici-
pate in making the future more
fair and just for everyone. ■
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from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
Vegas. However, there has been
a raft of mass shootings at Amer-
ican supermarkets since.
The Buffalo shooting on May
14, 2022, is similar to an August
2019 shooting at a Walmart in El
Paso, Texas. On that occasion, the
21-year-old white suspect posted
a racist rant on social media before
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❰❰ 10 There is a chance
that corporations and
investors might have
to take the hit in the short-term,
but in the long run it will pay
off. Consumers share the same
environment as corporations,
which means that doing right
by the environment results
in buy-in from sustainability
minded consumers — now the
majority of the consumer base.
Similarly, CEOs should be
penalized for not achieving
certain carbon reduction goals.
Naysayers may state that some
of those carbon emissions are
not within the control of the
CEO and they cannot change
it overnight. While this is cor-
rect, CEOs can still take steps to
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without pay cuts and job losses.
CEOs need to take risks
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CEOs hesitant to take steps to
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enwashing corporations have
large carbon footprints but
portray themselves as environ-
mentally friendly to investors.
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emissions, CEOs and their com-
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like divesting from current prof-
itable ventures that have higher
carbon emissions, in favour of
investing in green technology,
which may or may not succeed.
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of government, industry regu-
lators and institutional inves-
tors like the Ontario Teachers’
Pension Plan must team up
and mandate that corporations
provide CEOs with financial
compensation for reducing car-
bon footprints. CEOs will listen
carefully when their bread and
butter is at stake.■
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from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
❰❰ 15 allegedly driving some
distance to intentionally
target racial and ethnic
minority shoppers. He has been
charged with killing 23 people.
Another shooting in 2019 took
place at a Kosher grocery store
in Jersey City, New Jersey. Two
perpetrators, a man and woman,
both Black and around the age
of 50 with a criminal and violent
history, murdered four people
before being killed in a shootout
with police. Social media posts
and a note left behind indicated
an antisemitic motive.
Then in March 2021, a 21-year-
old man of Middle Eastern de-
scent with a history of paranoid
and anti-social behavior entered
a King Soopers in Boulder, Colo-
rado, and shot dead 10 people. Six
months later, in September 2021,
a 29-year-old Asian man killed
one person and injured 13 oth-
ers at a Kroger supermarket in
Tennessee. The perpetrator, who
worked at the store, was asked
to leave his job that morning. He
died by suicide before the police
arrived on the scene.
No one profile of a retail
shooter
Mass shootings are socially
contagious. Perpetrators study
other perpetrators and learn from
each other, which may explain the
rise in supermarket shootings in
the past few years. However, the
data shows there is no one profile
of a supermarket mass shooter.
Racial hatred is a feature of
about 10% of all mass public
shootings in our database. Our
analysis suggests that when
it comes to retail shooters,
around 13% are driven by rac-
ism – so slightly above the aver-
age for all mass shooting events.
Some grocery stores by their
nature may be frequented pre-
dominantly by one racial group –
for example, Asian markets that
cater to local Asian communities.
But racial hatred appears to
be just one of many motivations
cited by retail shooters. Our data
points to a range of factors, in-
cluding the suspect’s own eco-
nomic issues (16%), confronta-
tion with employees or shoppers
(22%), or psychosis (31%). But the
most common motivation among
retail shooters is unknown (34%).
Like the Buffalo shooter, 22%
of perpetrators of retail mass
shootings left behind something
to be found, a “manifesto” or
video to share their grievances
with the world. And nearly half of
them leaked their plans ahead of
time, typically on social media.
The lack of a consistent profile
doesn’t leave us helpless. Our re-
search suggests many strategies
to prevent mass shootings – from
behavioral threat assessment to
restricting access to firearms for
high-risk people. And the way to
stop the social contagion of mass
shootings is to stop providing
perpetrators with the fame and
notoriety they seek.■
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from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.

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FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
Entertainment
Moira drops comeback single and
“2G2BT” theme song “Kumpas”
ABS-CBN
Most streamed Filipina art-
ist Moira dela Torre introduc-
es the heartwarming single
“Kumpas,” her comeback into
recording that also serves as the
official soundtrack of the new
ABS-CBN Entertainment se-
ries “2 Good 2 Be True.”
The song was inspired not
just by the series but also by the
real-life love story of lead stars
Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel
Turkish Artist Aleyna
Tilki Makes a Splash as
Spotify’s EQUAL
Ambassador of the Month
SPOTIFY
Aleyna Tilki is breaking the
mold as she makes a name for
herself in the music industry.
The edgy Turkish singer-song-
writer started her singing ca-
reer at 14 years old, and now,
at the age of 22, she already has
multiple hits and high-profile
collaborations to her name.
Add to that the fact that Aley-
na is the first Turkish artist
that Warner Music Group has
signed for international proj-
ects, and it’s clear she’s a musi-
cal force to be reckoned with.
Aleyna’s signature vocals—
whether she’s singing in her na-
tive Turkish or in English—and
unique style help her fuse genres
in her music. Early last year, she
released the highly anticipated
single, “Retrograde,” cocreated
by an all-star team that includ-
ed Diplo, Dua Lipa, and King
Henry. In October of 2021, Aley-
Padilla.
“Hindi lang ito sa synopsis ng
‘2 Good To Be True’ nakabase
but sa documentary ng Kath-
Niel,” revealed Moira at the “2
Good 2 Be True” grand media
conference where she first per-
formed the song. “It was really
made for KathNiel and ‘2 Good
To Be True.’”
ABS-CBN Music creative di-
rector Jonathan Manalo handled
the production of “Kumpas.”
Released under Star Music,
the song talks about someone
na continued to prove her suc-
cess with the song “Real Love,”
which was a collaboration with
producer and DJ Dillon Fran-
cis. The track was a hit, debuting
at number 24 on the Billboard
Dance Club Songs chart.
Now Aleyna continues to gain
a global following as the EQUAL
Ambassador of the Month for
May. Spotify’s EQUAL Global
Aleyna Tilki (SPOTIFY)
special being one’s ‘compass’—
her guide when lost, the bright
hue in shades of dullness, and
her savior amid every storm.
Moira dela Torre’s “Kumpas”
is out now on digital stream-
ing platforms. Watch out for
the endearing theme song in
“2 Good 2 Be True,” streaming
on Netflix beginning May 13,
on iWantTFC starting May 14,
and on Kapamilya Channel,
Kapamilya Online Live, A2Z,
Jeepney TV, and TV5 beginning
May 16. ■
Music Program aims to com-
bat gender disparity in the mu-
sic industry by amplifying and
celebrating the work of women
creators around the world. As
a part of this month’s spotlight,
Aleyna will have her song “Take
It or Leave It” at the top of the
EQUAL Global playlist, and the
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Moira dela Torre’s “Kumpas” is out now on digital streaming platforms (ABS-CBN)
The Liberal politicization...
❰❰ 10 port the causes they
believe in and receive
the same tax benefits
as their fellow citizens.
A 2019 Senate review of the
charitable sector examined the
possibility of updating the legal
definition of a charity through
legislation. One witness noted
that entrenching the definition
of a charity in legislation “opens
the matter up to vagaries of
politics.” The Liberal govern-
ment’s current approach shows
the validity of this concern.
Subjecting charitable status to
the whims of politics threatens
the entire charitable sector be-
cause some organizations may
be eligible today but ineligible
tomorrow.
This approach effectively ex-
cludes both charities and citi-
zens from certain public bene-
fits because they disagree with
the government. It also sets a
troubling precedent for future
governments that may further
legislate against causes they
disagree with.
Free from political inter-
ference
Ironically, this policy con-
tradicts the government’s own
views about neutrality in char-
itable regulation. In 2012, the
former Conservative govern-
ment engaged in targeted audits
of certain, primarily environ-
mental, charities. These audits
17
were criticized for targeting
charities that were ideological-
ly opposed to the government.
After the 2015 election, the
Liberal minister of national
revenue “committed to work-
ing in collaboration with char-
ities to maintain a fair system
that respects and encourages
their essential contribution.”
Research has also been done
on potentially biased audits of
Muslim-led charities. In re-
sponse to this issue, the same
minister has been asked to as-
sist the taxpayers’ ombudsper-
son in ensuring that charities
are not subjected to bias.
In a democracy, the fairness
and neutrality of government
policies should be a given. As we
emerge from a health and eco-
nomic crisis that has racked the
nation, vulnerable Canadians
need more support than ever.
Charities across the country ex-
ist to provide this support. They
should not face the threat of
ineligibility because of govern-
ment’s political bias. Consistent
with the values of a free and
democratic society, Canada’s
charitable registration system
must remain free from political
interference. ■
This article first appeared
on Policy Options and is repub-
lished here under a Creative
Commons license.
18
The idea that power poses boost your
confidence fell from favor – but a new
review of the research calls for a second look
BY ASTRID SCHÜTZ,
University of Bamberg, BRAD
BUSHMAN, The Ohio State
University
The Conversation
If you stand like Wonder
Woman or Superman, will you
feel stronger? Will you actually
be stronger?
Psychology researchers have
investigated these questions
for decades. After all, mind and
body are intertwined. How you
stand or sit can give you feed-
back on how you feel, and your
feelings are often revealed by
the way you hold yourself.
One influential study pub-
lished in 2010 suggested that
power poses – body positions
like a wide stance with your
hands on your hips while stand-
ing, or clasping your hands
behind your head and putting
your feet on a desk while sit-
ting – increased levels of the
male sex hormone testosterone
and decreased levels of corti-
sol, the main stress hormone.
High levels of testosterone and
low levels of cortisol are linked
to fearlessness, risk-taking and
insensitivity to punishment.
From there, scientists assumed
that power posing could affect
how people felt, how they acted
and how others perceived them.
These findings drew enor-
mous attention outside of the
lab. Power posing was advertised
as a way of improving one’s life,
and the idea took off in popular
culture. Intentionally adopting
the stance of a powerful person
could apparently give you the
confidence and the appearance
of a powerful person.
But in the following years,
some researchers could not
replicate the original findings
when they tried to rerun the ex-
periments. The lead author of
the original study admitted to
mistakes and distanced herself
Lifestyle
from it. Since then, there’s been
a heated debate about whether
engaging in power poses really
does anything at all.
In an effort to figure out
which power pose findings hold
up and which do not, we con-
ducted a meta-analytic review
– that is, we combined data
from all available research on
the topic. Based on dozens of
studies, we suggest that there is
something to the idea of power
poses, even if the research was
overhyped in the past.
Pulling together findings
from 88 studies
We focused on two types of
body positions.
The first type included power
poses. Examples of high-pow-
er poses would be standing
or sitting in a very expansive
way, taking up a lot of space. A
low-power pose would be cross-
ing your legs and folding your
arms while standing, or bow-
ing your head and putting your
hands on your lap while seated.
The second type included
upright postures, like standing
erect or sitting up straight in a
chair versus bowing your head
and slumping. Theoretical and
empirical research have sug-
gested that power poses are
nonverbal expressions of dom-
inance, whereas upright pos-
tures are displays of prestige.
Following open-science stan-
dards, we preregistered our
protocol with the Open Science
Framework before conducting
the analysis. This step is meant
to increase transparency. By
stating the game plan upfront,
you can’t fiddle around with the
data to try to find something
significant to report.
Then we combed through 12
scientific databases with search
terms including “body position”
and “power pose.” This hunt
turned up over 24,000 potential-
ly relevant studies. We included
just the ones that randomly as-
signed participants to different
groups. Only this experimental
design allows researchers to
make inferences about the cause
of any effects they identify.
Often if a study doesn’t find
a link between the the factors it
was investigating, the research
doesn’t end up getting pub-
lished. Because of this phenom-
enon, called publication bias, we
sent requests for unpublished
data to researchers from six dif-
ferent scientific societies. We
also contacted all 21 research-
ers who had authored at least
two articles on body positions
to inquire whether they had any
unpublished studies. Over one-
fourth of the effects we analyzed
came from unpublished studies.
In the end, our analysis of
high- versus low-power poses
and upright versus slumped
poses was based on 313 effects
from 88 studies that included
9,799 participants.
What held up and what
didn’t
Our review examined three
types of potential effects pow-
er poses and upright positions
could have.
First there were self-report-
ed effects, such as feeling pow-
erful, confident and positive.
These kinds of effects were
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statistically significant and ro-
bust, meaning they were seen
again and again across many
studies. People told research-
ers they felt stronger when they
engaged in power poses and up-
right postures.
Then there were behavioral
effects, such as how long partic-
ipants would stick with a task,
whether they exhibited antisocial
behavior, and how action-orient-
ed they were. Researchers identi-
fied these effects in many studies
as well, but the findings were less
reliable and more subject to pub-
lication bias.
Finally there were physio-
logical effects such as hormone
levels, heart rate and skin con-
ductance, which often stands
in as a way to measure stress in
psychology research studies. In
our meta-analysis, these effects
were not statistically significant
across all the studies. It was in
this area that the power pose
research didn’t hold up. Simply
taking expansive body positions
does not influence hormones or
other physiological indicators
as previously believed.
We found these self-reported
and behavioral effects in stud-
ies from both Western coun-
tries like the U.S., Germany and
the U.K. that favor the individ-
MAY 20, 2022 FRIDAY
ual and in Eastern countries
like China, Japan and Malaysia
that favor the collective. Age
and gender did not make a dif-
ference with respect to the ef-
fects. Nor did it matter whether
participants were college stu-
dents or not. From the available
data it is not clear, however,
how long such effects last after
someone moves out of a partic-
ular body position.
What new experiments
can explore
Unfortunately, many ex-
perimental studies in our me-
ta-analysis did not include a
control group of participants
who adopted a neutral body po-
sition. That means we can’t tell
for sure whether it is high-pow-
er poses and upright postures
making people feel more pos-
itive and powerful, whether it
is the low-power and slumped
postures making people feel less
positive and powerful, or wheth-
er it is some combination of the
two. Future studies could clar-
ify that question by including
control groups that hold neutral
body positions for comparison.
Furthermore, most stud-
ies included participants from
Western, educated, industri-
alized, rich and democratic
societies – characterized as
“WEIRD” by psychology re-
searchers. Effects should also
be tested in other populations.
To promote and facilitate
further insights on the effects
of body positions, we also creat-
ed an app allowing researchers
to enter new data and download
the most recent results. Con-
tinuing these investigations is
important, because science is
an ongoing process that usually
does not provide definitive final
answers. More evidence accu-
mulates with each new study. ■
This article is republished
from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
Hook-ups, pansexuals and holy connection:
love in the time of millennials and Generation Z
BY ELIZABETH REID BOYD,
Edith Cowan University
The Conversation
That Love is all there is,”
wrote Emily Dickinson,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.
Does what we know of love
still apply to Australian rela-
tionships today – particularly
among millennials and Genera-
tion Z, whose partnerships and
dating behaviours are charting
new territories?
Online dating, hook-ups, in-
creased access to porn. Chastity
movements. Romantic partners
across (or regardless of ) gender
orientations. Polyamory and a
still-prevalent belief in monog-
amy. It’s all part of the modern
landscape. Many committed
relationships strain and break
under the burden of meeting
the hopes and dreams of what
we imagine to be love.
Are the intimate and dating
relationships of recent genera-
tions making more of what we
traditionally understand as love,
or are they creating something
different, something new?
Researching love
Such questions are explored
in Heartland: What is the future
of Modern Love? by Dr Jenni-
fer Pinkerton, a Darwin-based
writer, photographer, producer,
academic and Gen X-er.
Drawing on extensive re-
search into more than 100
“heart-scapes” of young Aus-
tralians – from transgender Ab-
original sistagirls in the Tiwi Is-
lands to conservative Catholics
living in Sydney – Pinkerton’s
findings break new ground in
an old landscape.
The complex modern dating
world scoped in Heartland re-
veals a lack of rules, something
that brings with it both loss and
liberation.
Of course, love’s essential
passion and pain remains un-
changed across millennia. And
some aspects of sexuality that
seem new have always existed,
albeit with different labels or
levels of social acceptance.
“I desire. I crave,” wrote
the Ancient Greek poet Sap-
pho, whose name is now im-
mortalised in the description
of female-only relationships.
Shakespeare’s famous sonnet
that begins “Shall I compare
thee to a summer’s day?” was
penned to another man.
Pinkerton shows the “who”
is not what makes love compli-
cated today. Millennial and Gen
Z attitudes are inclusive to the
point of being perplexed as to
why a fuss was made (and for so
long) about who can love whom.
It is the why, how, what, when
and where that are currently
making dating and relation-
ships difficult – particularly
post-pandemic – despite the
ease of speedy internet access
to potential partners.
There are also lots (and
lots) of labels. They go beyond
LGBTQ+. There’s sistagirl (an
Aboriginal transgender per-
son). Vanilla (people who don’t
do kink). There’s pansexual
(someone who is attracted to
all gender types: male, female,
trans, non-binary); demipan-
sexual (someone who seeks a
deep connection); polyamory
(multiple lovers) and more.
Much more.
Without such labels, explains
demipansexual Aggie (29), she
couldn’t explore sexuality, her
gender, or even polyamory it-
self. “These words describe
things to other people and de-
scribe things you haven’t expe-
rienced before.”
The labels also function as an
age dividing line. It’s a “genera-
tion thing”, says Aggie. There’s
even a 14-year-old who identi-
fies as “non-binary goth, demi-
romantic pansexual” who asks
her Gen X aunt how she identi-
fies. “I love who I love,” her be-
mused aunt replies.
Love, romance and liberation
Yet as the interviews in
Heartland reveal, it is impos-
sible to generalise within (or
about) any age group. While
some find labels liberating, oth-
ers shun them. And some shun
dating altogether.
According to Pinkerton,
many young people have
stopped dating – and some
never start. Some look askance
at apps and some have tired of
them. Others are simply tired of
it all: Pinkerton describes them
as an “army of disappointeds”.
One “disappointed” is Saxon
(23, straight), who has spent
hours chatting with potential
matches, yet never met up with
any of them – almost as if Tin-
der were a computer game.
For Charlotte (22), there are
hook-ups and there are dates.
“There’s a big difference between
dating and hook-ups for me. I ag-
onise and stress over dates.”
By contrast, art student
Stump (30) wants friendship
with extras. “To be friends and
fuck and be able to talk about
shit and have that cordial thing
going on.”
“I don’t care what they do,
as long as they have a job,” says
Lisa (27): “He needs to have life
goals.” Her friend Kaylee (25)
agrees. “If they can pay half the
bills, I’m happy.”
Yet love and romance aren’t
out of the equation. “I thought
it would be more liberating to
sleep with someone else than it
was,” says 19-year-old law stu-
dent Kami. “I suppose it didn’t
feel great because there was no
romantic connection.”
We meet Ryan (25), a shy
security guard, who is reading
Erich Fromm’s classic The Art
of Loving. He is not alone in
wanting to learn how to love.
Pinkerton notes that many un-
der-40s read love and sex texts,
including Gary Chapman’s pop-
ular The Five Love Languages.
Holy connection
Pinkerton sees the experienc-
es and concerns of millennials
and Gen-Z as shaping a new ap-
proach to modern love. Genuine
love, she writes, demands cour-
age, and extends beyond the nar-
row confines of the couple. It’s
about much more than romance.
Pinkerton noted her surprise
Lifestyle
at how often, for example, mil-
lennials would end conversa-
tions to friends with “I love
you”. At first, she thought it was
a bit intense, but she soon dis-
covered the importance young
people place on their friend-
ships is the key to what they
consider holy: connection.
Pinkerton’s reflections on the
complexities of committed rela-
tionships are embedded in the
context of her own story, which
she willingly shares. While from
a different generation, Pinker-
ton has experienced the anxiety
of online communication (she
particularly regrets sending a
rather embarrassing haiku).
But it is the heartbreak of her
own relationship breakdown
with the father of her newborn
son, and the loss of her mother,
interwoven with the interviews,
that contextualises and human-
ises the book. Heartland is not
cold case research: it’s a genu-
ine search for understanding, of
self and others.
There is also a sense of au-
thentic place evoked in Heart-
land: the “thick Red Centre
heat that lifts off the road in
ribbons and sends chalky-pink
galahs hurtling from the sky.”
Pinkerton identifies genera-
tional trends in dating and rela-
tionships that are by no means
unique to Australia, but imbues
them with a uniquely Australian
sensibility. You can feel the heat
as she writes about the Top End,
a landscape clearly in her heart.
Heat – or rather, too much
of it - is also an anxiety-pro-
voking and distressing concern
for Pinkerton’s millennials and
Gen Z interviewees.
19
Take the usual stressors of
young life and add the thought,
“Maybe the planet is going to
burn, and we’ll have nowhere
to live”, says Helen Berry, Hon-
orary Professor of Climate
Change and Mental Health at
the University of Sydney. Add
dating, love, romance […] it can
become too difficult to contem-
plate connection, in the face of
so much potential risk and loss.
Heartland takes love seri-
ously, as a subject worthy of
research – at a time when inter-
disciplinary research about love
is growing. In the School of Arts
and Humanities at Edith Cowan
University, the new Love Stud-
ies network includes academics
from every discipline. Mapping
the field, we have discovered a
diversity of research about love
with multidisciplinary connec-
tions that are often surprising,
ranging from popular romance
studies to criminology, sexolo-
gy and peace studies.
There is also a new Austra-
lian cross-university initiative,
The Heart of the Matter Health
Humanities Project, which
aims to
deepen our understanding of
the heart and improve human
well-being through fostering
dialogue and innovation across
the fields of health, medicine,
engineering, philosophy, literary
studies and the humanities.
The initiative brings togeth-
er academics and scholarship
from across the country to ex-
plore the intersections between
medical understandings of the
heart, the role of the human-
ities, and the heart as a symbol
and vehicle of emotion, from
research on artificial hearts to
Shakespeare.
Heartland maps both the ag-
onies and ecstasies of today’s
relationships. “Among millen-
nials and Gen Zs there’s a fluid-
ity to life and love, and an open-
ness to testing out alternative
options,” Pinkerton concludes.
“Sure, this can add to the anx-
iety load. Equally, it might just
create more rewarding sex and
love.” Labels may change, yet
the search for love remains. A
heavy weight, worth carrying. ■
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from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
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Do these three popular anti-ageing skincare
ingredients work? Here’s what the evidence says
BY SZU SHEN WONG, Keele
University, NEIL GRAZIER,
Keele Univer
The Conversation
For people looking to press
pause on ageing, it hasn’t al-
ways been as easy as it is today.
Throughout history people
have used all sorts of outland-
ish anti-ageing skincare tech-
niques – such as bathing in
donkey’s milk as Cleopatra sup-
posedly did, or applying mer-
cury directly to the skin, as the
Elizabethans did.
While the modern era has
certainly seen its fair share of
bizarre anti-ageing skincare
methods – such as placenta
and vampire facials – the latest
trend in anti-ageing skincare is
using science.
But with ingredients such as
peptides, antioxidants and ac-
ids now commonplace in ingre-
dients lists, it can be difficult for
someone without a background
in biology or chemistry to know
if what they’re putting in their
basket really is backed by sci-
ence – or if it’s just clever mar-
keting hype.
Here, we take a look at three
of the most popular ingredients
currently found in many an-
ti-ageing products – and wheth-
er there’s any evidence they do
what they claim:
Vitamin C
Products containing vitamin
C often claim that it “brightens”
the skin’s appearance and en-
courages collagen production.
The middle layer of our skin
(the dermis) produces both col-
lagen and elastin, which work
together to give the skin its stiff-
ness and elasticity. But as we
get older, the skin produces less
collagen and elastin – which is
why we develop wrinkles.
Turkish Artist Aleyna...
❰❰ 17 artist is featured on
the playlist’s cover.
For the Record
spoke with Aleyna to learn
more about her creative pro-
cess and some of the notable
moments in her career.
The artists who have most in-
spired me are ____.
Freddie Mercury, Ozzy Os-
Lifestyle
Vitamin C is a bit tricky to de-
liver to the skin. This is because
the outermost layer of the skin,
the epidermis, acts as a barrier
to water. Since vitamin C is water
soluble, this can make it difficult
to develop a product that is able
to get vitamin C into the skin.
But some research does sug-
gest that concentrations above
5% of vitamin C may work on
the skin. For example, one
study found that in ten women
aged 50-60, applying a cream
containing 5% vitamin C to the
forearms daily for six months
showed an increase in collagen
production in the skin.
Other research also suggests
that vitamin C applied to the
skin daily can noticeably reduce
hyperpigmentation (patches
of skin that are slightly darker)
caused by sun damage. In mul-
tiple studies, creams with and
without vitamin C were applied
to different areas of skin on each
person. It was found that people
who used vitamin C creams for a
total of 47 days saw a noticeable
bourne, Billy Idol, and Michael
Jackson.
One piece of advice I’d give
other women artists is ____.
Your body is your area of
freedom. Be free to explore it
for your art. Being open about
your body does not mean you
are open to being abused by
anyone.
difference in the colour of their
skin after 12 days of use. How-
ever, there was little further
change after the first 12 days.
However, it’s unknown if the
results persisted after the study
was finished.
Hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid is a natu-
ral substance that our body
makes. It’s usually found in the
fluids in the eyes and between
the joints and tissues. Many
skincare products now include
hyaluronic acid, claiming it’s
a good skin moisturiser which
may help reduce wrinkles.
A 2011 study, which looked
at 76 women aged between 30
and 60, found that using creams
containing 0.1% of hyaluronic
acid twice daily for two months
improved skin hydration and
elasticity. But improvements to
the appearance of wrinkles and
skin roughness was only seen in
creams where the hyaluronic
acid molecules were smaller in
size. This is because hyaluron-
ic acid molecules that are larg-
One notable moment in my
career so far is ____.
Being able to collaborate
with great artists and big labels
for my music, even though it’s
really tough to break through
globally from my country.
My creative process consists
of ____.
Psychoanalysis. It helps me
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er can be more difficult for the
skin to absorb.
But many high street skin
creams containing hyaluronic
acid don’t tell you the exact size
of the molecules used in the
product – making purchasing
decisions difficult. It’s worth
reading the label and taking
note of the type and/ or con-
centration of hyaluronic acid it
contains.
Reassuringly, other stud-
ies have shown that many hy-
aluronic acid products (from
creams and serums to inject-
ables) can help increase skin
hydration and reduce wrinkles
– including a 2021 study, which
showed a significant increase in
skin hydration and reduction
in fine lines in participants. But
it’s worth noting this study used
a commercial product that con-
tained a blend of niacinamide,
ceramides and hyaluronic acid
applied twice a day, along-
side daily sunscreen use. This
makes it difficult to know if the
results were solely because of
hyaluronic acid.
Retinol
Retinol-based products are
popular these days, often pro-
moted for their ability to reduce
the effects of long-term sun
damage to the skin (photoage-
ing) – including hyperpigmen-
tation and wrinkling.
Retinol is a derivative of vita-
min A. It’s converted to retinoic
acid once it’s absorbed into the
skin. Once absorbed, it helps
increase collagen production
and increases cell turnover. All
of these effects combined help
plump out the appearance of
wrinkles and decrease hyper-
pigmentation.
Studies in humans cells, skin
samples and humans all suggest
products containing retinol
can have an effect on the skin’s
to go deeper into human psy-
chology. But this is not about
empathy, rather it’s about how
it helps me to express myself in
my art.
One way I’d like to see great-
er gender equity in the music
industry is ____.
By people accepting that ev-
erything is not about masculin-
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appearance. For example, one
study in humans showed using
a product with at least 0.4%
retinol three times a week for
six months did decrease the ap-
pearance of wrinkles. Previous
studies have shown even prod-
ucts containing 0.04% retinol
can have this effect when used
for at least 12 weeks.
While the effects will not be
as pronounced when compared
to other prescription-grade
retinoid products, commercial
products containing at least
0.04% retinol should be able to
reduce the appearance of fine
wrinkles with continued used
over a period of months espe-
cially when combined with sun
protection.
What to look for
If you’re considering buying
an anti-ageing skincare prod-
uct, there are a few things to
think about.
First, consider whether you
may be allergic to any of the in-
gredients in the product and
whether it’s suitable for your
skintype. For example, if you
have dry, sensitive skin, retinol
may not be suitable for you as it
can increase your skin’s sensitiv-
ity to sunlight and irritate it fur-
ther. You should also take note of
the concentration of the active
ingredient within the product
and follow the recommended
use advised by the manufacturer.
This will be stated on the label.
Of course, you also need to
remember the product you
have bought is not a cure-all.
It’s equally important to main-
tain a healthy lifestyle, eat a
balanced diet and get adequate
rest to maintain visibly healthy
skin. ■
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from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
ity.
Some women artists I’m ex-
cited to watch are ____.
ROSALÍA, Doja Cat, GAYLE,
Billie Eilish, and Jessie Ware.
My girl-power anthem right
now is ____.
Beyoncé’s “Run the World
(Girls)” (of course). ■
FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
UP snaps 36-year UAAP title drought
BY IVAN STEWART
SALDAJENO
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – The University
of the Philippines (UP) finally
won its first UAAP men’s bas-
ketball championship after 36
years, beating Ateneo in over-
time, 72-69, in the final game
of the season, that is, Game 3 of
the best-of-three finals at the
Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay on
Friday night.
JD Cagulangan, a transfer
student from La Salle, scored
on a stepback triple with 0.5
seconds left to put the Fighting
Maroons ahead of the Blue Ea-
gles, who were leading for most
Cash incentives
await SEAG
medalists
Philippine News Agency
HANOI – Cash incentives
for medal-performing athletes
will flow from the coffers of the
Philippine Sports Commission
after the 31st Southeast Asian
Games here.
With at least 20 gold med-
als for Team Philippines on the
halfway mark of the 11-nation
biennial meet plus 25 silver and
36 bronze medals as of early
Monday, the PSC will be shelling
out at least P18 million in cash
bonuses as provided for by the
law under Republic Act 10699.
Otherwise known as the Na-
tional Athletes and Coaches
Incentives and Benefits Act, the
law rewards a Filipino athlete
PHP300,000 for every individ-
ual gold medal won while the
value of a silver and bronze are
PHP150,000 and PHP60,000,
respectively.
“I congratulate our athletes
for a job well done. We’ll be
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of the extension.
Cagulangan actually made
possible the game-deciding 8-0
comeback run by UP.
Down 64-69 with 1:47 left, he
beat the shot-clock buzzer with
a booming triple that cut the
gap to two in the next play.
Cagulangan then executed a
perfect pick-and-roll play, dish-
ing the ball off to a wide-open
Malick Diouf for the slam dunk
with 39.7 seconds remaining.
Dave Ildefonso had a chance
to put Ateneo back up, but he
missed a short jumper from just
inside the free-throw line, and
Diouf secured the rebound, set-
ting up Cagulangan’s deciding
basket.
With no timeout left, the
expecting more medals to be
won by Team Philippines in the
coming days,” PSC Chairman
William Ramirez said in a news
release on Monday.
But the cash windfall from
the government isn’t the only
source of monetary incentives
for medal-winning athletes in
the SEA Games.
By tradition in the Duterte
administration, President Ro-
drigo Duterte awards the cash
bonuses in Malacañang and
hands out additional monetary
rewards by matching the incen-
tives received by the athletes.
“Knowing the President, it’s
his style to give additional cash
bonuses aside from the incen-
tives provided for by the law
once the athletes visit him in
Malacañang,” Ramirez said.
Also based on the law, coaches
of podium finishers will get 50
percent of the amount of cash
bonuses their athletes received.
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Blue Eagles had to settle a des-
peration heave that never hit
the target as time expired.
Diouf led the Fighting Ma-
roons, who won their third title
overall and second since nam-
ing UP’s Quezon City school as
its main campus, with 17 points,
nine rebounds, one assist, three
steals, and one block.
CJ Cansino made a successful
comeback and added 14 points,
including a long off-the-board
trey that forced overtime, one
rebound, and one steal.
Cagulangan, who finished
with 13 markers, struggled be-
fore the dying moments, going
2-for-10 from the field, includ-
ing 0-for-4 from deep, but his
two triples within the final 1:22
Obiena keeps pole vault
gold, sets new SEAG record
Philippine News Agency
HANOI – Ernest John Obie-
na proved that he is the region’s
best pole vaulter right in his
first leap, retaining his title with
ease in the 31st Southeast Asian
Games athletic competition at
the drizzle-drenched My Dinh
National Stadium on Saturday.
With his Southeast Asian ri-
vals either failing to clear the
bar several times or suffering
from cramps from too much
Ernest John Obiena (PSC-POC)
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of the game mattered the most
for the Maroons.
SJ Belangel’s 27-point blast
went for naught as the Blue
Eagles, after a 39-game win-
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MEDIA COMMONS, CC BY-SA 3.0)
exertion, Obiena nonchalantly
cleared the bar at 5.4 meters to
clinch the gold right on his first
attempt.
It was 40 centimeters bet-
ter than the 5-meter leap of
compatriot and eventual silver
medalist Hocket delos Santos.
With the gold safely in the
bag, Obiena then aimed at his
own SEA Games mark of 5.45
meters he set in the 2019 Philip-
pine SEA Games. Just like in his
previous leap, Obiena cleared
the bar for a new SEA Games re-
21
ning streak that earned them
back-to-back titles, finished the
season losing three of their last
five games, all against the same
Fighting Maroons squad. ■
cord of 5.46 meters, trouble free
to the loud cheers of a handful
of Filipino expats and several
fellow athletes and Filipino of-
ficials on the sidelines.
“I’m relieved and happy to
win the gold. I came here as a
favorite and finally delivered.
Mission accomplished,” said
Obiena, the Asian record holder
at 5.93 meters.
The 26-year-old Obiena, cur-
rently ranked No. 6 by World
Athletics, then tried to obliterate
his own Asian mark by setting the
bar at 5.94, but failed thrice.
“Almost there, but masyado
pa maaga ‘yung volume ng train-
ing (the volume of his training
is still fresh), he is not that well
rested pa (yet),” said Obiena’s fa-
ther/coach Emerson.
Meanwhile, Kyla (23.56) and
Kayla Richardson (23.87), sub-
bing in for injured sprint queen
Kristina Knott, settled for the
silver and bronze medals, re-
spectively, in the 200 meters,
behind Singaporean champion
Shanti Perreira (23.52 seconds).
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PH archery team bags 1st gold in
Hanoi SEA Games
Philippine News Agency
HANOI – Archery contribut-
ed its first gold to the Philippine
campaign in the 31st Southeast
Asian Games here on Wednesday,
nipping top seed Vietnam 26-
25 in a thrilling shoot-off for the
women’s team recurve title at the
Hanoi National Training Center.
Abby Bidaure, 20, emerged
as the heroine for Team Philip-
pines, hitting the bullseye in the
final arrow of the shoot-off for
a 10 with just 10 seconds left on
the clock, eliciting loud cheers
from other members of the team
who gingerly watched the thrill-
ing showdown from behind.
The winning team, which in-
cluded Bidaure’s sister, Pia, and
Phoebe Amistoso, battled back
with a 57-49 win in the fourth
Yulo tops horizontal bars
to end SEAG campaign
with 5 golds
Philippine News Agency
HANOI – Carlos Yulo expect-
edly dominated the vault finals
and added a surprise gold medal
in the horizontal bars as he end-
ed his stint in the 31st Southeast
Asian Games here with a shot at
becoming the best male athlete
while leading a nine-gold rush
by the Philippines on Monday.
After wowing the crowd at the
Quan Ngua Sports Palace with
a runaway victory in the vault
where he scored 14.700 points,
Yulo, 22, returned hours later and
tied for first in the horizontal bars
with Din Phuong Thanh of Viet-
nam, both scoring 13.867 points.
The horizontal gold was the
fifth gold medal by Yulo, the
reigning vault world champion,
counting his earlier victories in
the men’s all-around, floor ex-
ercise, and rings, on top of sil-
ver medal finishes in the men’s
team event and parallel bars.
He matched the five-gold
haul recorded by a forgotten
sports hero, Rolando Albuera,
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frame after trailing 1-2 in the first
three, forcing a shoot-off that came
down to Abby’s winning shot.
“Basta ang sinasabi lang po
namin, amin na to, kaya na
namin, kasi ‘yun lang din po
‘yung ginagawa namin sa prac-
tice. Pagkatapos naming mag-
shoot, nag-uusap kaming tatlo,
ang sinasabi lang po namin,
mag- memedal po kami ngay-
ong SEA Games (Our motiva-
tion is, we will win it, we can do
it, that’s what we did in practice.
After we shoot, we said to each
other, we will win medal in this
SEA Games),” said Pia, 23, like
Abby born in Dumaguete.
Pia, who won her first SEA
Games gold on her third try, ex-
pected Abby to hit the bullseye
and make the difference in the
tightly-fought contest, saying:
“Inaantay ko na lang talagang
Carlos Yulo (PHILIPPINE SPORTS COMMISSION)
who achieved the feat in the Ja-
karta 1979 SEA Games where
the Philippines collected a total
of 24 gold medals and finished
fourth overall.
Overall, artistic gymnastics
contributed seven gold medals,
four silvers and one bronze to the
Philippine drive here, the best fin-
ish by Pinoy gymnasts in memory.
The other two gold medals
were contributed by Fil-Am
Aleah Finnegan in the women’s
team and vault while adding a
dumilim ‘yung gitna (bullseye),
kasi ang laki ng tiwala namin kay
Abby na last shooter. Ang laki
ng tiwala namin na maipapasok
niya kahit 10 seconds na lang
‘yung naiiwan on the clock (I just
waited to hit the target, we are
confident that Abby can do it as
the last shooter despite having
only 10 seconds on the clock).”
“Of course, very happy, kasi
ito ‘yung first gold namin, team
pa! May trust na kasi ako sa
aming tatlo, nu’ng praktis pa,
maganda na ‘yung aming shoot-
ing. Sobrang confident ko nu’ng
papunta kami dito (because it
is our first gold. We trust each
other. During practice, we did
well in shooting. We are con-
fident coming to this tourna-
ment),” Amistoso said.
The archery squad gets a
chance to shoot for its second
silver medal in the balance beam,
losing to Malaysia’s Rachel Yeoh
Li Wen (12.567-12.467).
Aside from Yulo’s last day
golden double, also contributing
to the country’s cause was danc-
esport that delivered four gold
medals after being limited to one
last Sunday, bowler Merwin Tan
who ruled the men’s singles and
ended an 11-year golden drought
by the keglers, and 110-meter
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gold Thursday when it battles
Malaysia in the finals of the com-
pound bow mixed team event.
Shooting a perfect last end, the
team of Paul dela Cruz and Jenni-
fer Jing Chan came from behind
to edge Thailand 155-154 in the
semis last Tuesday while the Ma-
laysians beat Vietnam 154-152.
Billiards’ 2nd gold
Johann Chua pounced on
two stunning miscues by reign-
ing US Open champion Carlo
Biado en route to a 9-6 victory
and crowned himself the new
9-ball billiards champion on
Wednesday.
The 9-ball gold was the sec-
ond for Pinoy cue artists here,
with Rubilen Amit winning the
women’s side of the event last
Tuesday, beating Jessica Chan
of Singapore 7-2.
Biado was favored to rule the
Marwin Tan wins
PH’s 1st bowling
gold in 11 years in
SEA Games
Philippine News Agency
HANOI – Merwin Tan finally
ended the country’s 11-year dry
spell in bowling on Monday, com-
ing from behind to rule the men’s
singles event at the Royal City Ha-
noi Bowling Lanes and fueling the
Philippine drive in the 31st South-
east Asian Games here.
Tan, 22, a left-hander, rolled
a six-bagger in the sixth and last
frame to erase a 52-pin deficit
and beat Yannaphon Larpa-
pharat of Thailand and Ryan
Leonard Lalisang of Indonesia,
to the delight of Pinoy officials,
especially those from the Phil-
ippine Bowling Federation.
Tan finished with a total score
of 1292, his bid immensely helped
by six straight strikes in the sixth
frame where he scored 249, af-
ter a 234 in the fifth frame that
bumped him up to No. 3 overall.
Larpapharat and Lalisang
were relegated to silver and
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all-Filipino finals but missed
what seemed as makeable shots
in the 12th and 15th racks, to the
horror of the big crowd at the
Hadong District Sporting Hall.
Trailing 5-6 in the 12th, Bi-
ado, 39, failed to pocket the
9-ball, smiling after his miscue.
He also failed to sink the 8-ball
three racks later, with Chua
gamely taking over both times
to win his first SEA Games gold.
Biado, who failed in his bid to
reclaim the title he won in the
2017 Games, raised the hand of
the 29-year-old Chua after the
match, gamely accepting his de-
feat for the silver medal.
Biado reached the finals after
beating Singapore’s top player,
Aloysius Yapp 9-7 in the semifinals.
Chua settled for a pair of
bronze medals in the past two
editions of the biennial meet. ■
bronze, respectively, with
scores of 1286 and 1221.
“Sobrang saya and shocking
din po, na nanalo po ng gold
ang Pilipinas (I’m so happy and
shocked that I won gold for the
Philippines). For the whole
game, try lang po ako mag-main-
tain ng aking (to maintain my)
focus and execution. Execution,
making good shots and maxi-
mizing every frame,” said Tan,
who knew he had to come up
with something big in the sixth
frame to turn things around.
The other Pinoy bowler in
the field, Ivan Malig, finished
11th with 1087.
“I am so overwhelmed, after
11 years... I cannot thank the
Lord enough. Talagang coming
from behind si Merwin (Mer-
win really came from behind).
We prayed he could recover,
and he did,” said PBF Secretary
General Bong Coo, who anx-
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Triathlon delivers Discipline key to success of

2 gold medals for PH athletes in SEA Games
PH in Vietnam
BY WILNARD BACELONIA ince) so they deserve the victory,” statement.
Philippine News Agency he said in an interview with Peo- Banario said they will continue
ple’s Television Network during their training in Baguio City to pre-

SEA Games
MANILA – The Philippine
kickboxing team, just like the
other athletes, did not stop
training even when the Covid-19
pandemic was at its worst.
Senator Francis Tolentino,
president of the national sport
association Samahang Kick-
boxing ng Pilipinas, said it was
the team’s discipline that made
possible their haul of two gold,
four silver, and two bronze
medals from the ongoing 31st
Southeast Asian (SEA) Games
in Hanoi, Vietnam.
“Dalawang taon nag-training
ang mga ‘to. Habang naka-lock-
down, patuloy ‘yung kanilang
pagsasanay. Galing sila ng Moun-
Andrew Kim Remolino (left) and Fernando Tan Casares (PHILIPPINE NEWS AGENCY) tain Province (They trained for
two years. While we were in lock-
Philippine News Agency tion for at least a bronze medal. down, they continued to train.
With a 145 total, the Cebua- They are from Mountain Prov-
na Go is far behind Thai lead-
the arrival of the kickboxers at
the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport on Monday.
Gina Iniong-Araos and Jean
Claude Saclag retained their
titles; Renalyn Daquel, Gretel
De Paz, Zephania Ngaya, and
Claudine Veloso brought home
silver medals; and Emmanuel
Cantores and Honorio Banario
had a bronze apiece.
Senator Christopher “Bong”
Go, chair of the Committee on
Sports, said Team Philippines
is showing its “devotion to our
country via sports” and vowed
to continue to fight for their
welfare and interests, regard-
less of the outcome of events.
“I wish the rest of the Team
Philippines a very good luck as
we defend our overall cham-
pionship. The Filipino people
are all behind you!” he said in a
pare for incoming competitions.
“Of course, masaya kami
kasi kami ‘yung na-select na
mag-represent sa ating bansa.
Ikinararangal namin na mapag-
malaki ang Pilipinas sa larangan
ng (Of course, we are happy that
we were selected to represent
our country. We are honored to
be the pride of the Philippines
in the field of ) kickboxing,” he
said in an interview.
As of 12 noon Monday, the
Philippines has a 20-28-42 gold-
silver-bronze haul, running
third behind Vietnam (68-47-
44) and Thailand (28-24-44).
Athletes from wushu,
e-sports, jujitsu, basketball
3x3, rowing, and football have
also returned from the bien-
nial meet that was reset from
November-December last year
due to the pandemic. ■

Wong delivers PH’s lone

HANOI – Triathlon deliv-
ered as promised on Saturday,
sweeping the men’s and wom-
en’s individual gold medals and
perking up the Filipinos’ cam-
paign in the 31st Vietnam Asian
Games here.
Kim Mangrobang, 30, broke
away from the pack in the bike
leg of the 1.5-kilometer (km)
swim, 40-km bike, and 10-km
run event in Tuan Chau island
en route to her third straight
crown in 2 hours, 13 minutes,
and 31 seconds.
Filipino-Spanish Fernando
Tan Casares, 26, proved a worthy
successor to compatriot John
Leerams “Rambo” Chicano, top-
ping the men’s race in 1:56.57.
Andrew Kim Remolino of Cebu
City and Raven Faith Alcoseba
settled for the men’s silver and
women’s bronze, respectively.
“We were expecting this in the
first place, but we never relaxed
despite the confidence we have.
They still did their homework,”
national triathlete coach George
Vilog said in a news release.
The two gold medals raised
the country’s haul to seven as of
noontime.
Golf
In women’s individual golf
at Heron Lake golf course, Lois
Kaye Go fought back with a
three-under 69 while Mafy Sing-
son had a 70 after the second
round as they moved into posi-
er Natthakritta Vongtaveelap,
who fired a second straight 67
to all but wrap up the coveted
gold at 10-under 134.
Their men’s counterparts vir-
tually bowed out of the medal
hunt as Jet Hernandez settled
for an even par 72 after a 74 for
146, Gab Manotoc carded a 75
for 149, and Jed Dy faltered with
a 76 for 150. Kristoffer Arevalo
ended up with a 79 for 157.
Thailand poised itself for
a sweep of the two individual
golds as Asit Areephan scorched
the course with a six-under 66
to storm past compatriot Weer-
awish Narkprachar with a 138
total for a two-shot lead with
one round left.
Wushu
Agatha Wong’s reign as tai-
jiquan queen ended as the
gold medal continued to elude
wushu practitioners at Cau
Giay Sporting Hall.
Wong, 23, the winner in the
2017 Kuala Lumpur and 2019
Manila editions, settled for the
silver with 9.69 points behind
Alisya Mellynar of Indonesia,
who scored 9.71. The bronze
went to Sy Xuan of Malaysia,
who scored 9.68.
Jones Inso, who bagged the
silver in men’s taijiquan on Fri-
day, became a double medalist
when he took the bronze in the
❱❱ PAGE 27 Triathlon delivers 2
wushu gold
Philippine News Agency
HANOI – Agatha Wong saved
her best for last to rule wushu’s tai-
jijian (taolu) event and give Team
Philippines its first gold medal in
the sport it used to dominate in
the Southeast Asian Games.
Wong bagged the gold barely
24 hours after relinquishing her
crown and settling for the silver
in the taijiquan (taolu), the same
event she won in the past two
editions of the 11-nation event.
“I’m so thankful,” said Wong,
who admitted coming here with
very little expectations because
Agatha Wong (PHILIPPINE SPORTS COMMISSION)
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the Filipinos only had two
months to train under a bubble
setup in Manila.
“We must remember na may
pandemic. Kaya yung kahapon I
was thankful naka-silver ako. Ka-
hit bronze pa ‘yan (There is pan-
demic. That’s why I was thankful
yesterday that I won silver. Even
if it’s a bronze) I’d still be thank-
ful,” said Wong, adding the she
can’t wait to go home.
“I miss my family,” said Wong,
in her black Team Philippines
tracksuit, after fulfilling the post-
event doping requirements.
The 23-year-old wushu artist
made sure she’d keep the gold
in taijijian.
Wong wowed the judges in the
event that had the nine partici-
pants wielding a double-edged
sword traditionally used in Chi-
nese martial arts, and earned a
score of 9.71 points.
Hometown bets Huyen Tran
Thi and Trang Tran Thi tried
hard to get the crowd going at
the Cau Giay Gymnasium. But
they couldn’t do any better than
9.70 and 9.69 for the silver and
bronze, respectively.
Team Philippines, which
won seven gold, two silver and
two bronze medals in wushu in
2019, will go home with a gold,
two silvers, the other one cour-
tesy of Jones Inso in men’s taiji-
quan (taolu), and a bronze, also
provided by Inso in taijijian.
Two more Filipinos were
in action as of posting time, –
Thornton Quieney Sayan in
men’s nangun and Johnzenth
Rapada in men’s gunshu.
Wong was asked if she was
looking forward to next year’s
SEA Games in Cambodia.
“Maybe. I don’t know. I’m not
sure,” she said with her beauti-
ful smile. ■
24
Cryptocurrencies: why they’ve crashed and
what it could mean for their future
BY GAVIN BROWN,
University of Liverpool,
RICHARD WHITTLE, UCL,
STUART MILLS, London
School of Economics and
Political Science
The Conversation
If you had invested £100
(US$122) in the cryptocurren-
cy Luna a month ago, you might
have been quietly confident you’d
made a sensible bet. But Luna’s
value has since fallen drastically
– at the time of writing, that £100
is worth around 4p (5¢).
Luna was by no means the
only victim in a week where
cryptocurrencies were down
30%. Some have recovered to a
certain extent, but this still rep-
resents an aggregate seven-day
loss of over US$500 million
(£410 million), prompting ex-
istential questions about the
future of the market.
This crash was possibly trig-
gered by a financial “attack”
on the stablecoin Terra (UST),
which is supposed to match the
US dollar but is presently trading
at just 18 cents. Its partner coin,
Luna, subsequently collapsed.
An attack of this kind is ex-
tremely complex, and involves
placing multiple trades in the
crypto market in an attempt to
trigger certain effects – which
can provide the “attacker” with
significant gains.
In this case these trades
McDonald’s to sell Russian business
for permanent exit
ANADOLU
Philiipine News Agency
ISTANBUL – American fast
food giant McDonald’s on Mon-
day said it has started selling its
business in Russia after more
than 30 years in the country.
Business
caused Terra to fall, which in
turn brought its partner coin
Luna down too. Once this was
noticed, it caused panic, which
in turn sparked market with-
drawals, which then caused
further panic. Some (but not
all) stablecoins rely to a large
extent on perception and confi-
dence – and once this is shaken,
big falls can come into effect.
Crucially, the recent major
falls in cryptocurrencies have
called into question just how
stable stablecoins really are.
After all, they are designed to
have practically zero volatility
by maintaining a “peg” to some
other underlying asset.
Yet the effects seen this week
spilt over in to the whole crypto
space, to create single day loss-
es akin to – or arguably worse
than – a “Black Wednesday”
for crypto (Black Wednesday
was the day in 1992 when spec-
ulators forced a collapse in the
value of the pound). Even the
leading stablecoin Tether lost
its peg, down to 95 cents on the
dollar, perhaps demonstrating
the need for regulation. For if
stablecoins aren’t stable, then
where is crypto’s safe space?
Crypto confidence
How investors respond will
be key to the future of crypto-
currencies. We have already
seen panic and despair, with
some comparing this crash to a
traditional run on the
banks. But with bank runs, cus-
The announcement of a perma-
nent exit came after the company
suspended operations in Russia on
March 8 due to the Ukraine war.
“The humanitarian crisis
caused by the war in Ukraine,
and the precipitating unpre-
dictable operating environ-
ment, have led McDonald’s to
tomers tend to be worried that
their bank will be unable to give
them their money, rather than
worrying that their money has
become worthless.
A more accurate comparison
is with stock market crashes
where investors worry that the
stocks and shares they hold
may soon be worthless. And so
far, reaction to this crypto crash
suggests that a large section of
crypto holders view their in-
vestments in a similar way.
Notwithstanding historical
price volatility, there is a basic
assumption often seen in in-
vestor behaviour: that the as-
set price will increase, and will
keep on doing so. In this sce-
nario the investor doesn’t want
to miss out. They see the asset
rising, consider it a “sure thing”
conclude that continued own-
ership of the business in Rus-
sia is no longer tenable, nor is
it consistent with McDonald’s
values,” read a press release.
The company said it will sell
its entire portfolio of McDonald’s
restaurants to a local buyer in Russia.
McDonald’s had 62,000 em-
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and then invest.
Frequently buoyed by initial
successes, the investor may then
put in more. Combine this with
social media and the fear of miss-
ing out on “inevitable” gains, and
the investments continue.
Put simply, many will have
invested in cryptocurrencies
because they believed it would
make them richer. This belief
has no doubt been shaken.
But another motivation for
investing in cryptocurrencies
may be a belief in their transfor-
mational nature, the idea that
cryptocurrencies will eventu-
ally replace traditional forms of
financial exchange.
For these investors, any in-
crease in the value of a crypto-
currency is a demonstration of
the increasing power of crypto-
ployees in Russia and the compa-
ny said it aims to ensure that they
“continue to be paid until the
close of any transaction and that
employees have future employ-
ment with any potential buyer.”
Russia has been slapped with nu-
merous sanctions by major world
powers, including the US, UK and
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currency over traditional mon-
ey. But likewise, a significant
decline in the value of crypto is
not simply a monetary loss – it
is an ideological one.
At the same time though, this
ideological stance creates an
investor group far less likely to
sell in the face of any sharp fall.
And it is this group which may
yet provide hope for the sector.
In established stock mar-
ket crashes we talk of a return
to “fundamental value”. The
fundamental value of crypto is
frequently assumed to be zero.
However, perhaps there is at
least some fundamental value
which is based on belief. The
size of the investor pool who
own cryptocurrency because
they believe in its long term fu-
ture, and the promise of a new
money, may determine that
fundamental value of crypto.
Indeed, if we consider crypto-
currency investors as different
groups with different motiva-
tions, we can better understand
the behaviours we are seeing. In-
vestors can perhaps take solace
that we may have seen the worst
of this crash and that better
times may be ahead. But as any
financial adviser will tell you, in
crypto as in any other market,
nothing is guaranteed. ■
This article is republished
from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
European Union, since it declared
war on Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Hundreds of companies have
pulled out of Russia due to the
war, with some such as energy
giant Shell, carmaker Renault
and private lender Societe Gen-
erale now selling their busi-
nesses in the country. ■
FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
A living wage increases economic productivity
while reducing poverty – new report
BY ANNA BARFORD,
University of Cambridge,
JANE NELSON, Harvard
Kennedy School
The Conversation
It can be difficult to see a way
out of the current cost of living
crisis. Prices continue to rise,
and there are fears that if noth-
ing changes, many families will
face serious financial hardship.
The effects of this will be dev-
astating. Poverty causes prema-
ture death, poor nutrition, dis-
ease and exhaustion. In the face
of this bleak outlook, there is an
urgent need for effective lead-
ership to bring about change –
but not just from governments.
Businesses too can play a cru-
cial role.
One of the single most im-
portant things any company
can do to reduce poverty is to
pay its employees a living wage.
Our new report demonstrates
in detail how a living wage not
only benefits employees and
workers, but also employers
and society as a whole.
Receiving a living wage helps
to break cycles of poverty by en-
suring that pay is sufficient to
cover household essentials as
well as occasional emergencies
or unexpected expenses.
Our expert interviewees re-
PH urged to integrate
cybersecurity in smart
city planning
BY KRIS CRISMUNDO
Philippine News Agency
MANILA – Urban planners
are urged to integrate cyber-
security investments in smart
city blueprints to avoid attacks
on the operational technology
infrastructure of the country’s
future smart cities, a cyberse-
curity firm said.
Cyfirma president for delivery
and operations Saurabh Lal told
the Philippine News Agency that
it is critical to integrate cyberse-
ported that being paid a living
wage can reduce stress lev-
els and the excessive working
hours sometimes needed to
make ends meet. This in turn
means fewer sick days and over-
all greater employee wellbeing.
From a business perspective,
this can result in lower staff
turnover, reducing recruitment
and training costs. Productiv-
ity can increase, and there are
even early signs that raising en-
try-level wages may be linked to
increased revenue.
We also discovered that as
living wage commitments be-
come more common, the ben-
efits reach further into soci-
ety. Wage increases stimulate
spending in the local economy,
while reductions in poverty and
curity investments during the
planning stage for a smart city,
and not after all digital technolo-
gies are already in place.
“If you don’t take them into
account while at the planning
stage—because this is what we
call shift left approach—consid-
ering all these pieces when you
are designing, not later on that,”
he said. “If you don’t do that, I
think chances are that you will
have a very rude shock.”
Lal added that with the pan-
demic accelerating the adop-
tion of digital technology and
inequality can lead to greater
social cohesion.
In short, our report (pro-
duced by Business Fights Pov-
erty, the Cambridge Institute
for Sustainability Leadership
and Shift) supports growing
evidence that living wages of-
fer multiple benefits – beyond
those experienced by individual
workers.
This should provide busi-
nesses with the confidence to
see wages not just as a net cost,
but as a positive investment.
After all, a business can only
be as resilient as the workers it
employs.
The wider impact on soci-
ety is also clear. We found that
living wages have the potential
to not only help tackle pover-
the government’s vision to build
smart cities across the country
like the New Clark City in Cen-
tral Luzon, investment in cy-
bersecurity in the Philippines is
projected to grow faster.
On top of the New Clark City
project —the country’s largest
smart city project— the Depart-
ment of the Interior and Local
Government (DILG) cited last
year at least six smart city proj-
ects that the government is eye-
ing to pursue.
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Business
ty, but also to address many of
the UN’s Sustainable Develop-
ment Goals. For instance, one
of the goals includes “decent
work for all”, and fair incomes
are a core component of decent
work. Tackling poverty can also
improve access to housing, food
and health.
Fortunately, being a living
wage employer is becoming a
new marker of business leader-
ship, which is valued by inves-
tors and consumers alike.
In the UK for example, IKEA,
Everton Football Club, and the
Nationwide Building Society,
are just three of over 10,000 em-
ployers who have committed to
paying what the Living Wage
Foundation describes as a “real
living wage”. In practice that
means paying workers a mini-
mum of £9.90 per hour (£11.05
in London). Similar campaigns
exist in other countries, includ-
ing New Zealand and Canada.
Raising the bar
Some companies are going
even further, by extending living
wages commitments to include
their suppliers. In 2021, Unile-
ver announced plans to work
towards a living wage for the
people who provide goods and
services to the company in areas
like logistics and packaging. To
achieve this, Unilever is partner-
ing with suppliers to commit to
Cash incentives await...
21 For team cash in-
❰❰
centives, a team of four
or less will receive the
equivalent of the corresponding
individual medal they had won
while each member of a team
with five members or more are
entitled to 25 percent of the in-
dividual medal’s worth.
Medal winners who sur-
passed existing Philippine re-
cords, SEA Games standards
or records in any measurable
Obiena keeps pole...
❰❰ 21 Vietnamese Nguy-
en Hoai Van unseat-
ed Filipino Melvin
Calano for the javelin gold with
a hurl of 70.87 meters. Cala-
no settled for the bronze with
66.86 meters.
25
and report on paying their work-
ers at least a living wage.
Our report, which combined
extensive analysis of previous
research with numerous in-
terviews, suggests that others
should join them.
Dr Annabel Beales, who
co-authored the report with
us, said: “Given the sheer scale
of rising poverty, a shift to a liv-
ing wages economy is urgent
and we need more businesses
to play their part. The decision
to pay living wages offers busi-
nesses a lot in return for their
investment in terms of perfor-
mance, resilience and stability.”
To move things forward, in-
vestors and CEOs should now
feel confident that the payment
of living wages is a sensible
business decision. Meanwhile,
governments can increase stat-
utory minimum wages to reach
living wage levels.
Consumers too can push for
progress through the power of
their spending decisions and
the businesses they support.
For businesses large and small
have an important role to play
in combating the drivers of pov-
erty – and can be economically
more successful as a result. ■
This article is republished
from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
international competition can
likewise receive cash incentives
as determined by the PSC.
Funding for these cash bo-
nuses from the government is
taken from the net cash income
of the Philippine Amusement
and Gaming Corporation to be
remitted to the National Sports
Development Fund of the PSC.
This is over and above the
regular income that is remitted
to the PSC by PAGCOR. ■
Matching Calano’s feat was
Alfrence Abraza, who bagged
the bronze in the men’s 1500m
with a time of three minutes,
56.35 seconds; Joida Gagnao,
who placed third in the 5000
meters with a time of 17:36. ■
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How to grow plants on the moon – new study
BY MONICA GRADY, The
Open University
The Conversation
One of the useful features
of What do you need to make
your garden grow? As well as
plenty of sunshine alternating
with gentle showers of rain –
and busy bees and butterflies
to pollinate the plants – you
need good, rich soil to provide
essential minerals. But imagine
you had no rich soil, or showers
of rain, or bees and butterflies.
And the sunshine was either
too harsh and direct or absent –
causing freezing temperatures.
Could plants grow in such an
environment – and, if so, which
ones? This is the question that
colonists on the Moon (and
Mars) would have to tackle if (or
when) human exploration of our
planetary neighbours goes ahead.
Now a new study, published in
Communications Biology, has
started to provide answers.
The researchers behind the
study cultivated the fast-grow-
ing plant Arabidopsis thaliana
in samples of lunar regolith
(soil) brought back from three
different places on the Moon by
the Apollo astronauts.
Dry and barren soil
This is not the first time that
attempts have been made to grow
plants in lunar regolith though,
but it is the first to demonstrate
why they don’t thrive.
The lunar regolith is very dif-
ferent from terrestrial soils. For
a start, it doesn’t contain or-
ganic matter (worms, bacteria,
decaying plant matter) that is
characteristic of soil on Earth.
Neither does it have an inher-
ent water content.
But it is composed of the
same minerals as terrestri-
al soils, so assuming that the
lack of water, sunlight and air
is ameliorated by cultivating
plants inside a lunar habitat,
then the regolith could have the
potential to grow plants.
The research showed that this
is indeed the case. Seeds of A.
thaliana germinated at the same
rate in Apollo material as they
did in the terrestrial soil. But
Technology
while the plants in the terrestri-
al soil went on to develop root
stocks and put out leaves, the
Apollo seedlings were stunted
and had poor root growth.
The main thrust of the re-
search was to examine plants at
the genetic level. This allowed
the scientists to recognise
which specific environmental
factors evoked the strongest ge-
netic responses to stress. They
found that most of the stress
reaction in all the Apollo seed-
lings came from salts, metal and
oxygen that is highly reactive
(the last two of which are not
common in terrestrial soil) in
the lunar samples.
The three Apollo samples
were affected to different ex-
tents, with the Apollo 11 sam-
ples being the slowest to grow.
Given that the chemical and
mineralogical composition of
the three Apollo soils were fairly
similar to each other, and to the
terrestrial sample, the research-
ers suspected that nutrients
weren’t the only force at play.
The terrestrial soil, called
JSC-1A, was not a regular soil.
It was a mixture of minerals
prepared specifically to simu-
late the lunar surface, and con-
tained no organic matter.
The starting material was ba-
salt, just as in lunar regolith. The
terrestrial version also contained
natural volcanic glass as an an-
alogue for the “glassy aggluti-
nates” – small mineral fragments
mixed with melted glass – that
are abundant in lunar regolith.
The scientists recognised
the agglutinates as one of the
potential reasons for lack of
growth by the seedlings in the
Apollo soil compared to the ter-
restrial soil, and also for the dif-
ference in growth patterns be-
tween the three lunar samples.
Agglutinates are a common
feature of the lunar surface.
Ironically, they are formed by a
process referred to as “lunar gar-
dening”. This is the way that the
regolith changes, through bom-
bardment of the Moon’s surface
by cosmic radiation, solar wind
and minuscule meteorites, also
known as space weathering.
Because there is no atmo-
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Experimental results, with different wells for each soil. (PAUL ET AL., CC BY-SA)
sphere to slow down the tiny on the surface for a long time. a resource. But that the location
meteorites hitting the surface, They are found in places where of the habitat should be guided
they impact at high veloci- regolith has not been disturbed by the maturity of the soil.
ty, causing melting and then by more recent impact events And a last thought: it struck me
quenching (rapid cooling) at that created craters, whereas that the findings could also apply
the impact site. immature soils (from below the to some of the impoverished re-
Gradually, small aggregates surface) occur around fresh cra- gions of our world. I don’t want
of minerals build up, held to- ters and on steep crater slopes. to rehearse the old argument of
gether by glass. They also con- The three Apollo samples had “Why spend all this money on
tain tiny particles of iron metal different maturities, with the space research when it could
(nanophase iron) be better spent on
formed by the schools and hospi-
space weathering tals?”. That would be
process. the subject of a dif-
It is this iron ferent article.
that is the biggest But are there
difference between technology devel-
the glassy aggluti-
... it doesn’t contain organic opments that arise
nates in the Apollo matter (worms, bacteria, from this research
samples and the that could be ap-
natural volcanic
decaying plant matter) that is plicable on Earth?
glass in the terres- characteristic of soil on Earth. Could what has
trial sample. This been learned about
was also the most stress-related ge-
probable cause netic changes be
of the metal-as- used to develop
sociated stress more drought-re-
recognised in the sistant crops? Or
plant’s genetic pro- plants that could
files. Apollo 11 material being the most tolerate higher levels of metals?
So the presence of aggluti- mature. It contained the most It would be a great achieve-
nates in the lunar substrates nanophase iron and exhibited the ment if making plants grow on
caused the Apollo seedlings highest metal-associated stress the Moon was instrumental in
to struggle compared with the markers in its genetic profile. helping gardens to grow green-
seedlings grown in JSC-1A, par- The importance of young soil er on Earth. ■
ticularly the Apollo-11 ones. The The study concludes that the
abundance of agglutinates in a more mature regolith was a less Monica Grady, Professor of
lunar regolith sample depends effective substrate for growing Planetary and Space Sciences,
on the length of time that the seedlings than the less mature The Open University
material has been exposed on soil. This is an important con- This article is republished
the surface, which is referred to clusion, because it demonstrates from The Conversation under a
as the “maturity” of a lunar soil. that plants could be grown in lu- Creative Commons license.
Very mature soils have been nar habitats using the regolith as
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FRIDAY MAY 20, 2022
How we captured first image of the
supermassive black hole at centre
of the Milky Way
BY DEREK WARD-
THOMPSON, University of
Central Lancashire
The Conversation
Black holes are among the
most profound predictions of
Einstein’s theory of general rel-
ativity. Originally studied as a
mere mathematical consequence
of the theory rather than as phys-
ically relevant objects, they soon
became thought of as generic and
sometimes inevitable outcomes
of the gravitational collapse that
initially forms a galaxy.
In fact, most physicists have
suspected that our own galaxy
revolves around a supermassive
black hole at its centre. There
are other ideas too – such as
“dark matter” (an invisible sub-
stance thought to make up most
of the matter in the universe).
But now an international team
of astronomers, including a
team that I led from the Uni-
versity of Central Lancashire,
has unveiled the first image of
the object lurking at the centre
of the Milky Way – and it is a su-
permassive black hole.
This means there is now over-
whelming evidence for the black
hole, dubbed Sagittarius A*.
While it might seem a little scary
to be so close to such a beast, it is
in fact some 26,000 light-years
Triathlon delivers 2...
❰❰ 23 men’s taijijian where
Daniel Parantac came
in seventh.
Still the champs
Past midnight, kickboxers Gina
Iniong-Araos and Jean Claude Sa-
clag retained their crowns at Bac
Ninh Gymnasium here.
Iniong-Araos, 32, of Baguio
City, scored a 2-1 victory over the
bigger and wider Jaiteang Wara-
porn of Thailand in the women’s
low kick 60-kilogram finals.
Not to be outdone, Saclag
matched the aggressiveness
and savvy of another Thai, Cha-
leamlap Santidongsakum, for a
similar 2-1 decision in the men’s
63.5 kg low kick finals.
The Filipino kickboxers fin-
ished their stint with a harvest
This image shows Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
galaxy. (EHT COLLABORATION, CC BY-SA)
away, which is reassuringly far.
In fact, because the black hole
is so far away from Earth, it ap-
pears to us to have about the
same size in the sky as a donut
would have on the Moon. Sagit-
tarius A* also seems rather inac-
tive – it is not devouring a lot of
matter from its surroundings.
Our team was part of the
global Event Horizon Telescope
(EHT) Collaboration, which
has used observations from a
worldwide network of eight
radio telescopes on our planet
– collectively forming a single,
Earth-sized virtual telescope –
to take the stunning image. The
breakthrough follows the col-
laboration’s 2019 release of the
first ever image of a black hole,
of two gold, four silver, and two
bronze medals.
The host ruled the event at 5-0-
6, followed by Thailand (2-4-6).
“Naging challenge sa akin
ang mga negative comment ng
marami na kesyo sabi nila, ‘ano
ba ‘yan? nanganak na lalaban
pa. Ba’t ‘di na lang alaagan ang
anak?’ (I was challenged by neg-
ative comments that I shouldn’t
be competing anymore be-
cause I already have a child and
should just concentrate on rais-
ing her),” said Araos, the moth-
er of a two-year-old girl.
At Hoa Binh City on Sunday,
John Derick Farr and Lea De-
nise Belgira will defend their
titles at the start of the moun-
tainbike downhill events. ■
called M87*, at the centre of the
more distant Messier 87 galaxy.
Looking into darkness
The team observed Sagittar-
ius A* on multiple nights, col-
lecting data for many hours in
a row, similar to using a long
exposure time on a camera.
Although we cannot see the
black hole itself, because it is
completely dark, glowing gas
around it reveals a tell-tale sig-
nature: a dark central region
(called a “shadow”) surrounded
by a bright ring-like structure.
The new view captures light
bent by the powerful gravity
of the black hole, which is four
million times more massive
than our Sun. The discovery
also yields valuable clues about
Yulo tops horizontal...
❰❰ 22 hurdler Clinton Kings-
ton Bautista.
Tan, a 22-year-old
left-hander, came from behind
to rule the men’s singles event
at the Royal City Hanoi Bowl-
ing Lanes, rolling a six-bagger
in the sixth and last frame to
beat Yannaphon Larpapharat
of Thailand and Ryan Leonard
Lalisang of Indonesia.
Tan finished with a total
score of 1292, his bid immense-
ly helped by a 294 in the sixth
frame after scoring 234 in the
fifth frame that bumped him
up to No. 3 overall. Larpapharat
and Lalisang were relegated to
silver and bronze, respectively,
with scores of 1286 and 1221.
Elsewhere in the games, Gi-
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Technology
the workings of black holes,
which are thought to reside at
the centre of most galaxies.
The surprising thing about
this image is that it looks so
similar to the image of M87* we
published three years ago – this
certainly came as a surprise.
The reason for the similarity is
that while the M87* black hole
is about 1,000 times bigger, the
Sagittarius black hole is about
100 times closer. Both of them
obey Einstein’s theory of gen-
eral relativity, showing Einstein
was right for a factor of 1,000 in
size scale. To a physicist this is
important. Relativity has been
around for a century and it is still
proving to be accurate. I think
even Einstein himself might
have been surprised by that!
The publication of the pic-
ture of the Sagittarius A* black
hole is a tremendously exciting
achievement by the collabora-
tion. When I first saw the im-
age, I thought: this tells us a lot.
I couldn’t wait to start writing
about it and interpreting the
image. We had a lot of meetings
to come to a consensus of what
it tells us. To begin with we were
meeting face to face in different
parts of the world. Then COVID
struck and suddenly nobody
could go anywhere. So online
meetings became the norm,
as in every other aspect of life.
las Pilipinas escaped with a
thrilling 76-73 win over peren-
nial rival Thailand at the start
of regular men’s basketball at
the Thanh Tri Gymnasium.
The Thais made a game of
it throughout, trailing by just
six at 36-42. Nakorn Jaisanuk
missed what could have been a
game-tying three-pointer in the
Thais’ last possession.
The Gilas women had an eas-
ier time, handily beating Indo-
nesia 93-77.
Billiards great Efren “Bata”
Reyes, still a big hit with Viet-
namese fans, advanced to
the semifinals of the men’s
one-cushion carom singles,
beating Suriya Suwannasingh
of Thailand 65-58. ■
27
This definitely slowed us down.
My role was to help write two
of the six papers that have been
released in the Astrophysical
Journal Letters: the first one,
introducing the observation;
and the third one, in which we
discuss how we made a picture
out of the observations, and
how reliable that image is.
In addition, I was a “contrib-
uting author” for all six papers.
This is an administrative role,
in which I handled all corre-
spondence between our team
of over 300 astronomers and
the academic journal that pub-
lished our findings. This had its
challenges, as I had to deal with
every typo and every mistake in
the typesetting.
I also had to channel com-
ments from my colleagues.
Since the majority of the col-
laborators are based in either
the US or East Asia, it meant
that they were working during
the night in UK time. Hence,
each morning I would come to
work to find about 100 over-
night emails from colleagues – a
daunting start to any day.
Anyway, we got there in the
end – and the dazzling result
was worth all of the work. ■
This article is republished
from The Conversation under a
Creative Commons license.
Marwin Tan wins...
❰❰ 22 iously watched from
the sidelines.
Tan, a former junior
bowler, delivered the country’s
first bowling gold since Frederick
Ong last did the trick in the 2011
Indonesia Games and the 21st for
the Philippine delegation here,
which is jostling with Thailand
for second place overall behind
runaway leader Vietnam.
It helped that Tan is a left-
hander, according to coach Bi-
boy Rivera. “Being a southpaw,
Merwin had an advantage going
into the last few games because
the lanes were more difficult for
right-handers,” said Rivera.
Alexis Sy and Mades Arles
were still competing in the dis-
taff side on Monday. ■
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Swipe Right on New Faces: Seven
Inspiring Destinations to Meet New
People while Traveling
BOOKING.COM
While traveling is a great op-
portunity to experience new des-
tinations, cultures and food, it’s
also a great way to connect with
and meet new people. With our
recent research revealing that
nearly two-thirds (60%) of glob-
al travelers want to meet new
people while away,* and with
64% looking forward to social-
izing while on a post-pandemic
vacation,* we have selected sev-
en destinations that are highly
endorsed by our travelers for ac-
tivities that are best experienced
with others.** Whether wanting
to partner up to experience the
tango in South America or ex-
plore adventure paradise in Viet-
nam with a pack of motorcyclists,
there’s plenty of exciting ways for
people to expand their usual so-
cial circle through travel.
Tango in Montevideo, Uru-
guay
According to our travelers,
Montevideo is one of the top en-
dorsed destinations for tango,
which is unsurprising given the
dance originated in this vibrant
capital city in the 18th centu-
ry. Best enjoyed with a partner,
the exuberant ballroom dance
requires connection between
pairs, expression of romance
and vibrancy in movement.
It takes two to tango and the
friendly dance scene in this city
is beaming with opportunities
for visitors to meet new people,
from cozy tango bars to beach-
front discos and dance classes
in one of the many elegant neo-
classical theaters. A visit to the
city won’t be complete without a
Wine Tasting Tour to delve into
the rich wine culture of Uruguay
which is ripe for discovery.
Where to stay: Bed down in
the heritage quarter of the city at
eclectic boutique hotel FAUNA
Montevideo. Beautifully deco-
rated throughout with vintage
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furnishings and unique art that
reflect the architectural history
of the building, this Booking.com
Travel Sustainable property is
crammed full of art deco treasures,
mosaic tiled floors and beautiful
marble stairways. What’s more,
it’s perfectly located near a clus-
ter of tango bars and clubs, as well
as popular landmarks including
Montevideo’s harbor, Port Mar-
ket and Solis Theatre.
Motorcycling in Phong
Nha, Vietnam
The landscape around Phong
Nha, in central Vietnam’s Quang
Binh province, features mean-
dering blue rivers, rice paddies
and chiseled jungle-clad moun-
tains. And the neighboring Phong
Nha-Ke Bang National Park, a
UNESCO World Heritage site,
contains the oldest karst moun-
tain in Asia, formed 400 million
years ago, with a network of hun-
dreds of colossal caves. One of the
best ways to experience this sub-
lime countryside is on a motorcy-
cle, with Booking.com travelers
voting Phong Nha a top destina-
tion for motorcycling. Dirt roads
have more recently been paved
and back-roads widened, while
off-road adventure is ripe for
exploration to get off the beaten
track and experience untouched
Vietnam. Local people here are
exceptionally friendly, and all too
pleased to help travelers discov-
er the culture and history of this
stunning district, while the many
varied motorcycle tours will en-
able visitors to meet fellow ad-
venture-seeking travelers.
Where to stay: Phong Nha
Coco Riverside is the ideal spot
for those looking to explore,
with free bicycle and kayak hire
available. Right on the river, it’s
just a short walk into town and
the buzz of the backpacker strip
crammed full of bars and restau-
rants. Guests can expect stun-
ning riverside views, and a shared
lounge and garden with ham-
mocks where they can chill out
together. The traditional onsite
restaurant serves up delicious
local cuisine; the banana pan-
cakes for breakfast are not to be
missed. Welcoming staff will ar-
range local tours for guests, and
even help them navigate riding a
motorcycle if it’s their first time.
Windsurfing in Corralejo,
Spain
This old fishing town on the
northeast coast of Fuerteven-
tura, one of the Canary Islands
of Spain boasting broad gold-
en beaches and towering sand
dunes, is a surfer’s paradise. A
top recommended destination
for windsurfing according to
Booking.com travelers, it’s wide-
ly regarded as one of the best
places to surf in the world due
to reliable and strong winds all
year round and an infrastructure
to cater for all abilities. On top of
the surf schools, a variety of wa-
tersports are available including
kitesurfing, jet skiing, kayak-
ing and scuba diving, making it
the ideal place for water lovers
to meet like-minded locals and
travelers. Escape for the day on a
Catamaran Tour to Lobos Island,
an uninhabited islet with crystal
clear waters, where visitors can
swim, snorkel and kayak togeth-
er. Back in town, there’s plenty of
opportunity to meet new people
by night at the many bars and live
music venues.
Where to stay: The modern
and bright Buendía Corralejo
nohotel apartments feature air
conditioned and spacious rooms
complete with modern ameni-
ties, and are just a brisk walk
away from the Atlantic Ocean.
Offering a restaurant, fitness
center and large sunny terrace
where guests can congregate,
there’s also an onsite surf school
for enthusiasts of any level – a
great way to meet fellow surf
buddies. When the breezy beach
gets cooler in the evening, guests
can head back to float in the
swimming pool and hang out at
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the poolside bar.
Wildlife in Jasper, Canada
An alpine town in Canada’s Al-
berta province, Jasper is known
for its abundant wildlife, sur-
rounding emerald lakes and gla-
cier-clad peaks, and is therefore
not surprisingly a top destination
for wildlife according to our trav-
elers. The surrounding Jasper
National Park, a UNESCO World
Heritage site, is a haven for an-
imals, as its vast forests stretch
across 4,200 sq miles (11,000 sq
km). With the highest concen-
trated black and brown bear pop-
ulation in Canada, visitors might
spot the odd bear, as well as oth-
er species that roam the woods,
including elk, goats and moose.
Travelers can head out togeth-
er on a Canadian Rockies and
Jasper National Park group tour
to explore, with a chance to ob-
serve the varied wildlife in their
natural environment, as well as
the numerous glacier-fed lakes,
including Peyto Lake with its fa-
mous turquoise hue. The magic
of the town is due to its small,
welcoming community; visitors
couldn’t ask for a friendlier base
for exploring the surrounding
awe-inspiring wilderness.
Where to stay: The cozy cabin
resort Patricia Lake Bungalows,
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located in the snow-capped Ca-
nadian Rocky Mountains and
overlooking a crystal clear lake,
has a charming home away from
home feel. Just a short drive away
from the bars and restaurants in
Jasper, the Travel Sustainable
property, committed to preserv-
ing the local environment, fea-
tures a kitchenette, barbecue,
hot tub and picnic facilities for
onsite gatherings. It’s close to the
Jasper SkyTram, the longest and
highest aerial tramway in Cana-
da, that allows visitors to gain a
unique perspective on the majes-
ty of the National Park.
Climbing in Starigrad,
Croatia
The village and small port
of Starigrad on the coast of the
Velebit channel is the starting
point for the stunning Pakleni-
ca National Park and where the
mountains and the sea become
one. Known as one of the best
spots for climbers in Europe due
to its picturesque views and nat-
ural raw beauty, it’s been hailed
as a top destination for climbing
according to our travelers. The
park is regularly visited by lovers
of free climbing, with single pitch
sport routes to big-wall rock
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McDonald’s Canadian restaurants
have 25,000 job openings right now
MCDONALD’S
Survey shows approximately
one-in-ten Canadians have worked
on a team at a McDonald’s restau-
rant at some point in their lives
Potential applicants can get
a feel for the fun behind the
counter with a new McDonald’s
game, Crush the Rush Crew.
TORONTO, May 16, 2022
– With the busy summer sea-
son fast-approaching and as
COVID-19 restrictions lift,
McDonald’s Canada and its
independent franchisees are
looking to hire 25,000 team
members over the next three
months. To capture the atten-
tion of potential applicants,
this year the company is in-
troducing a new game from
Verizon, Crush the Rush Crew,
giving players a glimpse of the
behind-the-counter fun.
JOBS FROM COAST TO
COAST
“In the next three months
between corporate-owned and
independent franchised loca-
tions, we’re growing restaurant
teams across the country” said
Erin Moore, National Director,
Human Resources, McDon-
ald’s Canada. “We’re looking to
A shrinking fraction of the world’s major
crops goes to feed the hungry, with more
used for nonfood purposes
BY DEEPAK RAY, University
of Minnesota
The Conversation
Rising competition for many
of the world’s important crops
is sending increasing amounts
toward uses other than directly
feeding people. These compet-
ing uses include making biofuels;
Food
hire crew members who want
to build skills in a safe, fun and
inclusive environment.”
HOW DO I TEST OUT BE-
ING A PART OF THE CREW?
Building on past recruiting
innovations like Snapplica-
tions and Alexa voice applica-
tions, McDonald’s Canada has
a brand-new game, developed
with Verizon. In Crush the Rush
Crew, players race the clock
filling orders at the Drive-Th-
ru and interacting with their
teammates to get the job done.
“It’s a fast-paced game that
brings the energy of McDonald’s
restaurants to life and focuses on
the importance of teamwork,”
converting crops into processing
ingredients, such as livestock
meal, hydrogenated oils and
starches; and selling them on
global markets to countries that
can afford to pay for them.
In a newly published study, my
co-authors and I estimate that
in 2030, only 29% of the global
harvests of 10 major crops may
be directly consumed as food in
says Rebecca Smart, Marketing
Director, Brand Strategy, Mc-
Donald’s Canada. “Players get a
feel for the hustle and bustle of
the job while working alongside
their virtual co-workers to solve
problems and complete orders
as they come in.”
It’s available at https://mc-
donaldscrushtherushcrew.ca/
between now and May 22 for
everyone to try.
While the game gives players a
sneak peak, nothing beats being
a part of a real McDonald’s team.
Think it’s time to apply? Go here.
WHAT DO YOU LEARN
FROM A JOB AT McDONALD’S?
Crew can expect to learn
the countries where they were
produced, down from about 51%
in the 1960s. We also project
that, because of this trend, the
world is unlikely to achieve a top
sustainable development goal:
ending hunger by 2030.
Another 16% of harvests of
these crops in 2030 will be used
as feed for livestock, along with
significant portions of the crops
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teamwork, leadership, agility,
resilience, decision-making, and
more. McDonald’s Canada be-
lieves that investments in world-
class training, education, flexible
work schedules and scholarship
programs are considered an es-
sential part of the business, and
integral to employee growth.
“I believe working at a Mc-
Donald’s restaurant can help
prepare employees for future
jobs in the workforce,” said
Moore. “As one of the largest
employers in Canada, McDon-
ald’s prides itself on being able
to offer employees the oppor-
tunity to learn important skills
that can be used in other jobs.”
In fact, according to a recent
survey conducted among mem-
bers of the Angus Reid Forum,
over 60 per cent of Canadians
who used to work at McDon-
ald’s said they still use skills they
learned under the Arches in their
careers today. A first job at Mc-
Donald’s can serve as a spring-
board to jobs in exciting and
diverse fields. Based on results
from the same survey, Canadians
with previous work experience
at a McDonald’s restaurant went
on to work in fields such as edu-
cation (6%), healthcare (8%) and
government (9%).
that go to processing. This ulti-
mately produces eggs, meat and
milk – products that typically
are eaten by middle- and up-
per-income people, rather than
those who are undernourished.
Diets in poor countries rely
on staple foods like rice, corn,
bread and vegetable oils.
The crops that we studied –
barley, cassava, maize (corn),
29
About McDonald’s Canada
In 1967, Canadians welcomed
the first McDonald’s restaurant
to Richmond, British Columbia.
Today, McDonald’s Restaurants
of Canada Limited has become
part of the Canadian fabric, serv-
ing close to three million guests
every day. In both franchised and
corporate-owned restaurants,
nearly 100,000 people are em-
ployed from coast-to-coast, and
more than 90 per cent of McDon-
ald’s 1,400 Canadian restaurants
are locally owned and operated by
independent franchisees. Of the
almost $1 billion spent on food,
more than 85 per cent is pur-
chased from suppliers in Canada.
For more information on McDon-
ald’s Canada, visit mcdonalds.ca.
About the Survey
This survey was conducted
from April 27-29, 2022 among a
nationally representative sample
of 2,004 Canadians who are mem-
bers of the online Angus Reid
Forum, balanced and weighted
to census on age, gender, region
and education. For comparison
purposes only, a sample of this
size would yield a margin of error
of +/- 2.2 percentage points at a
95% confidence level. The survey
was offered in both English and
French. ■
oil palm, rapeseed (canola),
rice, sorghum, soybean, sugar
cane and wheat – together ac-
count for more than 80% of all
calories from harvested crops.
Our study shows that calorie
production in these crops in-
creased by more than 200% be-
tween the 1960s and the 2010s.
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A shrinking fraction...
❰❰ 29 Today, however, har-
vests of crops for pro-
cessing, exports and
industrial uses are booming. By
2030, we estimate that process-
ing, export and industrial-use
crops will likely account for 50%
of harvested calories worldwide.
When we add the calories locked
in crops used as animal feed, we
calculate that by 2030, roughly
70% of all harvested calories of
these top 10 crops will go to uses
other than directly feeding hun-
gry people.
Serving the affluent, not
the poor
These profound changes
show how and where agricul-
ture and agribusiness are re-
sponding to the growth of the
global middle class. As incomes
rise, people demand more an-
imal products and convenient
processed foods. They also use
more industrial products that
contain plant-based ingredi-
ents, such as biofuels, bioplas-
tics and pharmaceuticals.
Many crops grown for export,
processing and industrial uses
are specially bred varieties of
the 10 major crops that we an-
alyzed. For example, only about
1% of corn grown is the U.S. is
sweet corn, the type that people
eat fresh, frozen or canned. The
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❰❰ 28 climbing and caters for
absolute beginners to
the most experienced.
Visitors can purchase the Pak-
lenica National Park Admission
for entry to the dense forests and
deep canyons – the ideal spot to
join forces with fellow climbers
and locals to conquer the rugged
rock formations.
Where to stay: Just a short drive
away from Paklenica National
Park, Apartments Paklenica is the
optimum stay for climbers who
want to rest their feet following
a day of activity. Simple and well-
priced, the two-bed apartment
features a kitchenette, modern
amenities, garden and terrace
with spectacular views overlook-
ing the mountains. It’s also just
a stone’s throw away from the
bright blue Adriatic Sea, where
travelers will find a coastline dot-
ted with lively beach bars to strike
up conversation.
Bird watching in Foz do
Iguacu, Brazil
Home to lush rainforests and
an abundance of exotic birds, Foz
do Iguacu is a top recommend-
ed destination for bird watch-
Food
rest is mostly field corn, which
is used to make biofuels, animal
feed and food additives.
Crops grown for these uses
produce more calories per unit of
land than those harvested for di-
rect food use, and that gap is wid-
ening. In our study we calculated
that industrial-use crops already
yield twice as many calories as
those harvested for direct food
consumption, and their yield is
increasing 2.5 times faster.
The amount of protein per
unit of land from processing
crops is twice that of food crops,
and is increasing at 1.8 times
the rate of food crops. Crops
harvested for direct food con-
sumption have had the lowest
yields across all metrics of mea-
surement and lowest rates of
improvement.
Grow more foods that feed
the hungry
What does this mean for reduc-
ing hunger? We estimate that by
2030, the world will be harvesting
enough calories to feed its pro-
jected population – but it won’t
be using most of those crops for
direct food consumption.
According to our analysis,
48 countries will not produce
enough calories within their bor-
ders to feed their populations.
Most of these countries are in
ing according to Booking.com
travelers, making it the perfect
destination for those wanting to
discover the beauty of the species
with others. Visitors can head to
the bird conservation, Parque
das Aves, to partake in a group
tour meandering through the
grounds and admiring the beau-
tiful and unique birds that roam
the Atlantic Rainforest. Home
to 800 species including red ibis
and flamingos, and close to one
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sub-Saharan Africa, but they also
include Asian nations such as Af-
ghanistan and Pakistan and Ca-
ribbean countries such as Haiti.
Scientists and agricultur-
al experts have worked to in-
crease the productivity of food
crops in countries where many
people are undernourished, but
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enough. There may be ways to
persuade wealthier nations to
raise more food crops and di-
vert that extra output to under-
nourished countries, but this
would be a short-term solution.
My colleagues and I believe
the broader goal should be
raising more crops in food-in-
secure countries that are used
directly as food, and increasing
their yields. Ending poverty,
the U.N.‘s top sustainable de-
velopment goal, will also en-
able countries that can’t pro-
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domestic needs to import it
from other suppliers. Without
more focus on the needs of the
world’s undernourished people,
eliminating hunger will remain
a distant goal. ■
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sion dishes, and a luxurious spa
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up the jungle chorus, or sip on
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Archeology in Pompeii, Italy
Located in southern Italy’s
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