Month: November 2019

April 4 is basically a national holiday for the Beyhive. On this day back in 2008, Beyoncé Knowles got married to her longtime love Jay Z in an intimate, top-secret ceremony at the rapper’s Manhattan penthouse. Nine years later, Beyoncé’s biggest supporter (and thus honorary leader of the Beyhive), mom Tina Knowles, celebrated the anniversary as […]

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Click:block manufacturing machine As the renewable revolution gathers a pace, the oil industry has launched yet another PR offensive trying to rebrand fossil fuels as sustainable. So first the good news. The percentage of electricity generated by renewables in the world’s largest economies has soared by 70 per cent over the last five years, according […]

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French president-elect Emmanuel Macron is young (39), liberal, good-looking, and fluent in French (duh)—sound familiar? Clearly, Macron is France’s answer to universal Canadian crush, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On May 7, PM Trudeau extended his congratulations to Macron himself, proposing a future meeting between the world leaders. We imagine the meeting will go something like […]

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Are we greens resigned to repeating a sad litany of the Arctic melting, wildfires raging, weather getting weird, of tipping points, new expressions of denial, and all the rest of it? Or are there any models of enormous beneficial changes at the last minute? I’m thinking of something bigger than the Montreal protocol that succeeded […]

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JAY-Z and Beyoncé are notoriously private. But with the pair’s new albums, Lemonade and 4:44, the power couple have given us a glimpse inside the ups and downs of their marriage. The Brooklyn-born mogul goes deep in his latest songs, which seem to be in response to his wife’s revelatory tunes. In the tracks, he discusses marriage […]

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A nail-biting election in Ecuador appeared to end Sunday with leftist candidate Lenín Moreno winning the presidency over conservative Guillermo Lasso. The National Electoral Council declared Moreno the winner by 51 percent, just minutes after another organization had said the race was a technical tie with both candidates being within 0.6 percentage points of each […]

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