An investigative panel under the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement found serious human and labour rights abuses at the Canadian-owned Camino Rojo mine in Mexico. Workers were pressured to leave their union and join a pro-employer one, with threats and violence allegedly linked to organized crime. The United Steelworkers union is urging the Canadian government to consider criminal charges against Orla Mining, the mine's owner, and to ensure workers' safety and rights. The case highlights concerns about corporate responsibility and government response under CUSMA rules.
Anteris Technologies received regulatory approval from Germany's BfArM to start enrolling patients in its global PARADIGM trial for the DurAVR Transcatheter Heart Valve. This approval allows the company to recruit patients at leading German centers, ...
A Bitcoin address involved in a New York ownership dispute moved 411.45 BTC (about $33.4 million) on October 18, ending over 13 years of inactivity. This transaction, confirmed in block 972,036, came from an address that had not sent coins since 2013...
On October 19, U.S. altcoin spot ETFs showed mixed flows: Litecoin and NEAR ETFs attracted new investments, while Solana and Zcash ETFs experienced net outflows. Other altcoin ETFs like XRP, Dogecoin, Chainlink, and Avalanche remained flat with no si...
The Bitwise NEAR ETF, which holds NEAR Protocol tokens, reported net assets of $86.97 million on October 18, up from $82.36 million on October 15. The fund's NEAR token holdings increased by over 1.1 million tokens during this period, reaching 17.6 m...
Governments are using financial repression and currency debasement to manage heavy fiscal spending, shifting costs to wage earners, savers, and bond investors. Over the past five years, $2 of every $3 dollars in circulation were created after Bitcoin...
