It's not like the company hired all of their employees last year, and now suddenly realizes they screwed up. Telus has hired people over the course of decades. Needs of the business change over time. For instance, there's been a multi-year fibre rollout that the company is wrapping up. The build-out phase has ended, so it's not unreasonable that the company might do some rightsizing.

Additionally, 1/3 of the layoffs are also hitting Telus International, which isn't part of the capital-intensive telco business. Telus International announced that their customers are cutting back, so naturally they need to react.

It's moot because it's already been addressed. MS signed deals with Nintendo to make CoD available on their platform for 10 years, and also signed a 10-year deal with Valve to simultaneously release new CoD titles on Steam. A similar deal was offered to Sony, who declined and instead decided to use the FTC to fight a legal battle in order to maintain their dominant position over a smaller competitor.

Basically all other countries' regulatory bodies have found the deal would not result in a substantial lessening of competition. The FTC is the outlier here.

What dominance? MS has been an also-ran for years in console gaming. And as far as exclusives, schoolyard bully Sony has done plenty of their own. As was revealed during the court proceedings, the future of Call of Duty on Xbox was in jeopardy. Effectively, the FTC was being used by Sony to stop one of their competitors to maintain their own market dominance.

In game consoles, MS is in 3rd place, and Sony has > 50%. As far as games development, there are thousands of competitors.

Headphone jack?

Preventing a chemical plant next to a kindergarten? Sure.

Mandating that certain people sleep here and other people sleep over there? C'mon. The NYC hotel industry has long lobbied for restrictions on AirBNB listings because it drives more customers their way. The hotels have paid the price to jump through the city's regulations, and now they're defending against new market entrants. See: "regulatory capture".

EPA website definition confirms that surface water during some of the year is a wetland: "Wetlands are areas where water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year".

Should they be?

Assuming "they" is the government, I don't know why they'd have some particular insight as to the future economy and the motivations of soon-to-be-unemployed workers. Looking at the recent past, the push to turn coal miners into rudimentary coders is looking neither successful nor effective, given the coding capabilities of ChatCPT.

The best course of action is for all workers to be aware that their job (or even their entire job function) may be obsolete tomorrow. This is generally a prudent idea, regardless of the predicted AI doom. Considering that most workers have several different job types in their working career, the process of retraining and career changing has been a continuous process for a long time.

Aluminum accounts for nearly 40% of Iceland's exports, yet the island has no alumina reserves. Alcoa imports alumina, then smelts it on the island. Why go through the trouble of shipping heavy loads to and from a frozen island in the North Atlantic? Because the process of smelting alumina into aluminum is hugely energy intensive, electricity is basically a required input, and Iceland has tons of it (thanks, volcanoes!). Effectively, Iceland has found a way to export their electricity, despite being relatively geographically isolated.

It's important for an economy to have a way to have foreign currencies coming in. Bhutan's geography also makes trade of physical goods difficult, but Bitcoin mining is their method of exporting electricity.

I don't doubt that China will invest "whatever it takes", but when will they get results?

Boeing and Airbus have ruled the skies with widebody passenger planes for decades. China is the largest aviation market in the world, yet scarcely participates in the production of jetliners. Widebodies are the prize, but China hasn't even caught up with 100+ seat narrowbodies: Comac has delivered 1 (one!) C919. American, European, Russian, Brazilian, and Canadian aircraft companies have managed to deliver 100+ seat planes to operators. Each took a lot of effort and development. But making a reliable aircraft is difficult. Replacing ASML will be even more difficult.

It does exist; just search for "extended fdic insurance".

Some examples:

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Extended FDIC insurance
Wintrust MaxSafe

But most people aren't making minimum wage. In fact, it's less than 2% of hourly workers. Besides, the article is discussing workers nearing retirement age, which are typically peak-earning years.

PBS's music and travel programs should benefit quite a bit from the improved video and audio capabilities of ATSC 3.0, without the ads.

Or will it allow PBS to find new ways to pester viewers about fundraising? Hmm....

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This also isn't like the old days when you had one job for your entire working life. The modern worker has around 10 jobs during their working life. The labor force (and labor market) is far more dynamic than it used to be. Young workers just entering the labor force may well end up finishing their career with a job that doesn't even exist right now in 2022.