Glacier FarmMedia MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
– United States vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris decided on Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday, introducing him at a campaign rally in Philadelphia later that night. Harris was expected over the past few days to either pick Walz or Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. The 60-year-old, Nebraska-born Walz served in the U.S. Army National Guard before becoming a high school teacher and coach for 29 years. He was first elected as a U.S. Congressman in 2006 and served in that role before being elected governor in 2019.
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– The Canadian government advised residents to take caution when visiting the United Kingdom on Tuesday after far-right demonstrators repeatedly clashed with police over the past week. Violence between protestors and police, as well as counter-protestors, began after a knife attack killed three young girls in Southport on July 29. While a 17-year-old boy was detained as a suspect, misinformation spread online saying the suspect was seeking asylum and/or a Muslim immigrant. Police said the nationalist English Defence League was behind the riots and have also identified 30 more locations around the U.K. as targets for more violence.
– Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin, now serving as acting chief executive of the country, dissolved parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to be the head of the new interim government. Yunus received the Nobel Prize in 2006 for founding Grameen Bank in 1983, which helped bring people out of poverty through microloans. Protests since July in the capital of Dhaka killed 300 people and forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country.
