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LONDON, June 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Horizonte Minerals Plc. (the "Company" or “Horizonte”) (AIM: HZM; TSX: HZM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Sepanta Dorri as a director of the Company with immediate effect.

With the pandemic disrupting the economy, the School of Accounting and Finance’s Tracy Hilpert helps us mitigate the possible effects on our household finances. Congrats to the Class of 2020 as Waterloo completes its first-ever virtual convocation. The Waterloo Warriors Jump into June with a fitness challenge. And we've got answers to your questions from the President’s Virtual Town Hall.

The CAAA Award Committees are pleased to recognize these outstanding recipients who embody the values and mission of the Association: innovators who are committed to promoting and encouraging excellence in education and research in our field.

As we cannot celebrate our winners' achievements in person this year, we will be very happy to do so when we can be together again - at the Awards and Recognition Brunch of the 2021 CAAA Annual Conference in Quebec City.

Experienced face-to-face lecturers preparing to teach online, where they won’t have the benefit of reading body language and will have to battle new obstacles, such as Zoom fatigue

Friday, May 29, 2020

Mastering durable skills

We have entered the Fourth Industrial Revolution with technology spearheading and transforming the workforce and the future of business. It’s happening all around us. Blockbuster went bankrupt with the introduction of streaming services like Netflix. Taxis have repositioned their business models due to app-driven ride-share programs like Uber. Roles of financial advising and investing are becoming obsolete with algorithmically programmed robo-investors.

The economic impact of COVID-19 continues to be a global issue for people and businesses everywhere. Many in our community are wondering how the shutdown of our economy will affect their long-term financial goals.

James Thompson is a Waterloo professor in the School of Accounting and Finance. On Wednesday, May 27, he joined us for this week’s Ask our Experts community talk to discuss retirement planning in the time of COVID-19, as well as answer your questions about personal finance.

We asked Tracy Hilpert, Director of the School of Accounting and Finance’s Financial Literacy in the Classroom initiative, what you should be considering when managing your finances during the pandemic.

COVID-19 has seen entire industries retooling their production to make personal protection equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers. With all the PPE that’s being produced, Purolator Canada was the logistics company selected by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Federal Government to deliver the PPE to hospitals across the country.
 

Canadians across the country are facing a difficult and unforeseen financial hurdles that have many worried. In fact, research by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada back in 2018 stated that 48 per cent of Canadians said they had lost sleep because of financial worries — something that has only been exacerbated with layoffs, social-distancing and illness within the last few months.