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Epoch Times
5 days ago
- Business
- Epoch Times
China Flouting International Law While Asking for Special Treatment, Says Former Ambassador
Chinese industries and Chinese regime officials are asking for preferential treatment while refusing to pay standard technology fees, former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said in a Newsweek Locke detailed how Chinese industries have for years gotten around paying the royalty rates for standard-essential patents (SEPs). These are licenses for technology that allow devices, such as computers, phones, and cars, to operate on a standard technology, like connecting to the same Wi-Fi and 5G networks, he said.
Hamilton Spectator
26-05-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
Rare Canadian tobacco tin sells for $55,000 at New Hamburg auction
A small, rare Canadian tobacco tin sold for a whopping $55,000 at a New Hamburg auction on Sunday — nearly five times its original estimate. The 3 Strikes pocket tin, which is about 125 years old, was part of Miller & Miller Auctions' Soda & General Store Advertising sale on May 25. Before the auction, the tin had already attracted a pre-auction bid of $29,000, well above its expected price of $9,000 to $12,000. 'I've been a dealer of nostalgia for over 50 years and this is only the seventh one I've come across,' said Ed Locke of Renfrew, Ontario. 'And there hasn't been a new discovery in 15 or 20 years. It's significant.' The small tin, made by the Erie Tobacco Co. in Kingsville, Ontario, is what collectors call a 'cross collectible.' It appeals to both tobacco collectors and baseball memorabilia fans because of the image of a baseball player on its front. 'Collectors can be a funny breed,' said Ethan Miller, CEO of Miller & Miller Auctions. 'Find something they need to complete their collection, and money is no object.' Tobacco tins from this time are often damaged by rust from leftover tobacco inside, but this one was found in near-perfect condition during a house renovation near the old Erie Tobacco Co. factory. 'This is the Holy Grail, the best of the best, the rarest of rare,' said Christine Blaus, Miller & Miller's specialist and consultant. Locke added, 'Canada produces some of the best tins out there. Americans like Canadian pocket tins and see them as being just as good as the American tins.' The auction house has seen strong demand for rare Canadian tins in recent months. In March, three other pocket tins — the Taxi, the Gold Dust, and the Torpedo — each sold for more than $5,000. 'When you get something rare in a desirable category and in very, very good condition you just never know how much it will command,' said Locke. 'Is a collector ever going to get a chance to own another again? Maybe not. That's why it will bring whatever the market will bear.'
Global News
23-05-2025
- Business
- Global News
Surrey plans to build 10,000-seat arena and entertainment district
The City of Surrey will be home to a new 10,000-seat arena and entertainment district, if all goes according to plan. Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke confirmed during her State of the City address that city councillors are working towards a plan to build the new arena. The city will be searching for a development advisor in the next few weeks to help guide the project and expect to select an operating partner later this year, Locke said. Work on the site is targeted to begin in 2027 and will also include roughly 100,000 square feet of retail and office space and a hotel with conference facilities. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'This will become a place for families to enjoy the best sporting and entertainment venues right here in the city of Surrey,' Locke said. Story continues below advertisement 1:16 Surrey council breaks ground on new Cloverdale sports facility Locke did not say if a dollar figure had been attached to the project yet. 'If Surrey wants to move forward they need to be accountable with taxpayer money,' said Carson Binda with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. 'That means proactively releasing things like contracts, proactively and in a timely fashion releasing cost estimates and all the other contracts surrounding this stadium.' City council will also have to approve the project before it can move forward.
Metro
14-05-2025
- Metro
Driver jailed for killing flight attendant in 120mph crash caught on dashcam
A man who instantly killed a flight attendant while driving more than 120mph has been jailed. Sensenal Amaglo, 42, crashed into Heidi Lee Locke, 58, on the M2 on November 27, 2022, while she was driving to work at Heathrow Airport. Dashcam footage showed Amaglo speeding down the carriageway and overtaking cars in his Mercedes C-Class before hitting Ms Locke's Nissan Qashqai. Paramedics arrived at the scene but Ms Locke was declared dead there. Amaglo was found in his car and was arrested at the scene and later charged. Ms Locke, who lived in Broadstairs, Kent, worked as a flight attendant for United Airlines and was described by colleagues as a 'loving' and 'caring' person. Friends said she was 'a beautiful person whose life was cut way too short'. Her colleague Teresa Delafons said: 'She was always up for a laugh and kept us all entertained on our flights across to the USA. 'She was a lovely, caring person. 'She will be missed by all who knew her, especially all of us at United as well as Pan Am where she started her career. 'She was a beautiful person whose life was cut way too short.' Amaglo initially denied causing death by dangerous driving but later changed his plea. He was jailed for 12 years and three months at Maidstone Crown Court on Monday. A further charge of causing death by careless driving while unfit through drink or drugs was ordered to remain on file. Amaglo will serve a minimum term of eight years and two months before he is eligible for parole – and will be banned from driving for 10 years after his release. More Trending Detective Constable Sara Capozzi said: 'Amaglo's driving that morning was truly appalling and resulted in the most tragic of consequences. 'I hope that the custodial sentence he has received offers opportunity for him to reflect on his thoughtless and grossly irresponsible actions, which led to the loss of a much loved and cherished woman's life. 'I would like to thank the witnesses in this case, whose evidence helped secure Amaglo's conviction and ensure that this dangerous driver was put behind bars for several years.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Serial sperm donor with 180 kids 'seizes opportunities to control vulnerable women' MORE: Man shot by armed police after double stabbing in Huyton MORE: Inside 'degrading' Georgian prison where British teen could spend the rest of her life
Time Out
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Hallow Road
Stephen Knight's 2013 thriller Locke gave us Tom Hardy, a car, a mobile phone and the not (on paper), wildly exciting prospect of a cement pour and generated from those sparse ingredients enough tension to trigger a panic attack. Hallow Road, directed by Babak Anvari, employs the same few elements, only – and with apologies to concrete enthusiasts – with even higher stakes: at the other end of the phone line is a panicked girl and the body of a young woman she's just run over in the dead of night on a forest road. Can her parents reach her in time, is the woman still alive, and will the trio make the right decisions along the way? If you don't immediately assume the answer to at least one of those is 'no', you've not seen Anvari's terrific debut Under the Shadow, which unleashed a malevolent djinn on a mum and daughter in wartorn Tehran. The British-Iranian filmmaker does not do happy families. And this taut morality tale even adds a jittery edge of superstition and folky horror to the mix. It opens with a deceptively serene tableau: a half-eaten stew on the kitchen table of a rural home; two parents – Rosamund Pike's Maddie and Matthew Rhys's Frank – asleep in separate rooms at 2am. Then Maddie's phone rings and the panicked voice of the pair's 18-year-old daughter Alice (Megan McDonnell) fills in the gaps: there's been an argument, Alice has stormed off in dad's car and hit a young woman in the woods. The British-Iranian filmmaker does not do happy families The screenplay, by first-timer William Gillies, seeds the scenario with tensions from the get-go. Why hasn't Maddie serviced her car, grumbles Frank. Whose fault was the argument in the first place? Then we're strapped in and racing to the woods – 40 minutes away – as Maddie, a paramedic, tries to talk her daughter through CPR over speakerphone and the het-up Frank simmers behind the wheel. By keeping the camera in the vehicle, hauntingly lit with the blur of passing houses and the glow of the mobile phone, Hallow Road invites you to fill the scene at the other end of the line with a shadowy menace that the final stretch really delivers on. And there's some truly whelp-inducing sound design thrown in as the panicking Alice attempts resuscitation. But the crux of the drama lies with the two parents, played with real feeling by Pike and Rhys. You can sense how their fraying marriage deprives their shared concerns for their daughter of any unity; how the miles are clocking down more slowly than their cortisol levels are cranking up. Pike, in particular, is terrific as a woman torn between her instincts as a mother and a medical professional – two caregiving roles suddenly in conflict. How far would you go to protect your child? Hopefully it'll never need to be as far as this.
