As clothing rentals take off, this Canadian company is expanding its offerings

Rent Frock Repeat co-founders Kristy Wieber, left, and Lisa Owen, right, are gearing up to relaunch their company as a monthly clothing subscription service. (CBC News)

It should be noted that clothing rental options are evolving from unique suits for special occasions to subscriptions for everyday garments, and a Canadian company is expanding its closet to enter the trend.

Likewise, traditional retail chains are also entering the clothing rental business.

In this way, it could be said that as the rental of clothes takes off, this Canadian company is expanding its offers. That being the case, Rent Frock Repeat is relaunched this fall as a monthly clothing subscription service, after eight years in the designer dress rental business. In fact, Kristy Wieber, who is the president of Rent Frock Repeat, has said, “[The customers are] the ones that set this in motion, because the demand was there”.

Practical solutions

Terence Corcoran: Our 'public broadcaster' now has journalists shilling for private ad dollars

The CBC logo is projected onto a screen during the CBC's annual upfront presentation at The Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press

It should be noted that our ‘public broadcaster’ now has journalists who ask for money for private ads. In this way, there is no doubt that we need a national investigation into the internal operations of the public broadcaster.

In this regard, the CBC television news channel, The National, dropped the ball on Wednesday night. Here’s the news they were not following: The National’s four anchors (Rosemary Barton, Adrienne Arsenault, Andrew Chang, and Ian Hanomansing) were in Toronto that day for advertising money at a television marketing conference. As such, as reported in The Globe and Mail, the four hosts of the daily news program were part of a programming dog and pony performance at Upfront ’19, a trade fair where buyers of the advertising industry get previews of the new programming that television networks have prepared.

New plan

It isn't easy being green — but you're trying

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Global warming or climate change is the increase observed in more than a century of the temperature of the Earth’s climate system and the effects of that increase. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is heating up.

It should be noted that the greatest human influence has been the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides. The projections of climate models summarized in AR5 indicated that during this century the global surface temperature will probably rise 0.3 to 1.7 ° C for its lowest emission scenario using strict mitigation and 2.6 to 4.8 ° C for the older ones.

Likewise, anticipated effects include an increase in global temperatures, a rise in sea level, a change in precipitation patterns and an expansion of subtropical deserts. In this way, warming is expected to be greater in the land than in the oceans and the most pronounced occurs in the Arctic, with the continuous retreat of the glaciers, the permafrost, and the sea ice. Other likely effects include more frequent extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, torrential rains, and heavy snowfall; Ocean acidification and extinction of species due to changing temperature regimes.

Increasing Concern

Are trees the silver bullet for capturing carbon?

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It has been established that the trees are the silver bullet to capture carbon. And it is certainly the planting of trees is established as a strategy to extract carbon from the atmosphere.

In this way, both Australia and New Zealand intend to grow a billion new trees in the next decade. Pakistan launched its so-called Tsunami of billions of trees in 2014. After restoring 350,000 hectares of the forest ahead of schedule, Prime Minister Imran Khan launched a 10 billion-tree tsunami in 2018 with a goal of five years.

It is necessary to listen to the experts. That being the case, scientists argue that certainly planting trees always reduces carbon in the atmosphere. Of course, if done well, planting trees works as part of the larger effort to reduce carbon. An advantage? It can be done relatively easily and quickly on a large scale.

Likewise, it should be noted that afforestation could remove between 500 and 7,000 megatons of carbon from the atmosphere per year. Some studies put the figures even higher.

Significant considerations

Rival South China Sea visions in spotlight as Washington, Beijing front Shangri-La Dialogue

The Chinese Type 52D guided missile destroyer Guiyang participates in a naval parade on April 23, 2019.

There is no doubt that the tension continues to increase amid a growing trade war between China and the United States. However, it has been said that attention is about to become a familiar scenario: The South China Sea. And after years of clashes and attacks in the disputed region, US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is expected to present Saturday the new Indo-Pacific Pentagon strategy at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

Now, intriguingly, only a day later, Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe will speak about Beijing’s role in the Indo-Pacific, the highest ranking Chinese official to appear in Asia’s main defense conference in eight years. There is no doubt that his presence is really significant. In this way, Beijing claims almost all of the South China Sea of 1.3 million square miles as its sovereign territory and likewise aggressively affirms its participation, with President Xi Jinping saying he will never abandon “any inch of territory”.

Clash of different political visions

John Ivison: Desperate Trudeau antagonizes Mike Pence over abortion to score political points

No doubt we have observed a desperate Trudeau who opposes Mike Pence on abortion to obtain political points. That being so, the prime minister clearly made the calculation that, in spite of the sympathy, embarrassing his guest was in his best electoral interests.

It may not be of great relevance if Mike Pence is upset with Justin Trudeau for raising the issue of abortion during his courtesy visit to promote the new NAFTA agreement. After all, he is only the vice president of the USA, and even the former incumbents were not so impressed with the office.

Still, it seemed unkind to say the least that Trudeau would inconvenience a guest who had come to repair the snub by the Trump Administration.

Relevant facts

Flying Has Become More Dangerous. Don't Just Blame Boeing

Smoke billows from Aeroflot Flight 1492 at Sheremetyevo airport on May 5. Photographer: Viktor Marchukaites/AFP via Getty Images

It has been said that flying has become more dangerous. That being the case, not only should Boeing be blamed

That’s right, nowadays flying has become more deadly than it has been for years and it is difficult to attribute it solely to the infamous 737 Max de Boeing Co. In fact, according to the International Air Transport Association, aviation accidents happened with greater frequency in almost all regions of the world in 2018, since the death toll increased to a maximum of four years of 523.

It should be noted that the fatal accidents of Flight 302 of Ethiopian Airlines and Flight 1492 of Aeroflot assure that this year will be another bad one.

That being the case, airline bosses hold the largest meeting since the Boeing crisis began. Thus, in the same arises one of the most important questions that hover over the executives of airlines and aircraft, what happened to the safest way to travel? This comes when they meet this weekend in Seoul at the annual IATA meeting for the largest industry meeting since the two disasters of the Boeing 737 Max.

Increasing demand