Randy Thanthong-Knight
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Canada economics & government reporter @business | also cover immigration | @columbiajourn and @FulbrightPrgrm alum | [email protected]
Ottawa, Ontario
Joined October 2010
Households go backwards in 13 developed economies as record immigration runs into a housing crisis. Here’s a closer look at declining GDP per capita in Canada, Australia and the UK https://t.co/xr5mJyObuO
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Households go backwards in 13 developed economies as record immigration runs into a housing crisis.
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Mexico’s Fátima Bosch just won Miss Universe after a scandalous clash with one of the pageant’s organizers. But behind the crown lies a deeper feud over how to keep a fading industry alive. @rtkwrites explains: https://t.co/iTpfMcZbp6
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Mexico’s Fátima Bosch just won Miss Universe after a scandalous clash with one of the pageant’s organizers. But behind the crown lies a deeper feud over how to keep a fading industry alive. @rtkwrites explains: https://t.co/SXN9RBz9lQ
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There’s a brawl at Miss Universe this year. Not between contestants, but between the two men running it. Read my first big story since returning to Bangkok:
bloomberg.com
The contest is caught between two men’s clashing visions — one rooted in tradition, the other in TikTok commerce — revealing an industry at war with itself.
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Thailand’s government announced plans to boost domestic tourism, as the nation’s struggling hospitality industry faces the first decline in annual foreign visitors since the pandemic.
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Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s government has green-lit a $1.36 billion consumption stimulus program to boost a weakening economy and its popularity ahead of a general election.
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Thailand saw inflation dipped below zero for the sixth straight month, likely giving the central bank an impetus to cut interest rates this week. Commerce Ministry also lowered its inflation forecast this year to 0%, from a range of 0%-1% previously.
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Canadian consumer prices accelerated for the first time in four months and underlying price pressures firmed, likely keeping the central bank from cutting interest rates later this month
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Canadian consumer prices accelerated for the first time in four months and underlying price pressures were firmer, likely keeping the central bank from cutting interest rates later this month.
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It seems that nothing Canada has tried so far has shielded it from the threats of Donald Trump. Love this quote from @Karl_Schamotta: “There was hope that there was light at the end of the tunnel — unfortunately it appears that light is a train.” https://t.co/SmSXa6ZByt
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It seems that nothing Canada has tried so far has shielded it from the threats of Donald Trump.
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The Canadian economy shrugged off tariff uncertainty, adding the most jobs in six months with the unemployment rate falling for the first time since January. https://t.co/4uGhBSEfl2
bloomberg.com
The Canadian economy shrugged off tariff uncertainty as the labor force added the most jobs in six months and the unemployment rate surprisingly fell, supporting another interest rate pause from the...
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Canadians are committed to ditching US travel, taking the fewest number of car trips there in the year’s first half since at least 2017, excluding the pandemic. https://t.co/TJ268MzDHO
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Canadians are committed to ditching US travel, taking the fewest number of car trips there in the year’s first half since at least 2017, excluding the pandemic.
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A growing number of migrants in the US are heading north, even as Canada adopts increasingly restrictive immigration policies of its own. https://t.co/nXVWIGTbAU
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A growing number of migrants in the US are heading north to seek asylum, even as Canada adopts increasingly restrictive immigration policies of its own.
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Canada should become a world leader in producing and processing raw materials for military equipment and defense systems, according to @BizCouncilofCan
https://t.co/TxKBr4Lynp
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Canada should become a world leader in producing and processing raw materials for military equipment and defense systems, according to an influential business group.
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The Canadian economy is on track for a modest decline this quarter, yet isn’t deteriorating as fast as some economists feared. https://t.co/CTu507q3e8
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The Canadian economy is on track for a modest decline this quarter, yet isn’t deteriorating as fast as some economists feared.
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Youth unemployment in Canada jumped 3.6 pp over the past two years, the sharpest increase among the 25 largest OECD economies. https://t.co/4mqTV3hvQw
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Young Canadians are facing a labor market that has deteriorated faster than in any other major advanced economy.
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Young Canadians are facing a labor market that has deteriorated faster than in any other major advanced economy https://t.co/3i4aAkJFUQ
@rtkwrites @business
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Young Canadians are facing a labor market that has deteriorated faster than in any other major advanced economy.
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