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• NEW YORK, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ArtsBerry provides an insider's view into the world of top contemporary artists, including Mr. Tianshi Wang, a digital artist and university lecturer specializing in animation, video, and film concept visual development, character design, and product design.
• Additionally, Mr. Wang is the founder of Genius Animation Art Festival, and a faculty member at the Animation School of the Beijing Film Academy, China's premier film institution.
• As an established artist, what advice would you give to those who just started their career in the same field.
• The essence of artistic design lies in drawing inspiration from life's nuances and skillfully integrating them into visual expressions.

• United by a common history and a strong relationship, Canada and France share a vision for the future.
• This renewed partnership will create more opportunities for Canadian and French entrepreneurs, and attract investment across Canada, France, and the European Union.
• The Monument recognizes more than four centuries of shared history and values and more than 90 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and France.
• In 2023, Canadian exports to France amounted to $4.3 billion, while imports from France totalled $8.6 billion.

• That same principle underpins the HomeKeeper program I proposed in The Conversation last year.
• The idea is to help mortgage-stressed owner-occupiers avoid losing their home.
• If it’s a good idea for companies, why not for responsible and otherwise financially-viable Australians at risk of losing their homes in a cost-of-living crisis?
• Rather, it’s government help through a small equity stake with positive returns for taxpayers when HomeKeeper help is no longer needed.

People need help now

• HomeKeeper would be of most help to lower income families who often don’t have a “Bank of Mum and Dad” to help them “over the hump”, as Albanese puts it, during temporary difficulties.
• ACT Independent Senator David Pocock backed HomeKeeper last week in his additional comments in the Senate Economics Legislation Committee report on the government’s Help To Buy Bill 2023.
• Pocock wants the government’s Help To Buy mechanism amended to enable low- and middle-income earners “facing mortgage repossession and possible homelessness to remain in home ownership” via a HomeKeeper-style program.
• Establishing HomeKeeper is more important than ever because the monetary policy script isn’t following the arc politicians and policymakers planned.

Relying on interest rate relief to arrive isn’t enough

• Yet interest rates in Australia are not falling.
• What’s more, even without further rate increases by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) this year, the average mortgage rate is set to rise anyway according to research by the RBA’s Domestic Markets Department’s Benjamin Ung.
• Nearly a third (31.4%) of mortgaged owner-occupiers are “at risk” of mortgage stress according to the latest Roy Morgan survey.
• The longer it takes, the more damaging to individuals and families, and the more costly it is to governments.
• Albanese is right – sometimes there’s a role for government in providing help to get over that hump.

Chris Wallace is a professor in the University of Canberra's School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law. She has received funding from the Australian Research Council.

• OTTAWA, ON, March 28, 2024 /CNW/ - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that the Prime Minister of France, Gabriel Attal, will travel to Canada from April 10 to 12, 2024.
• On April 10 and 11, Prime Minister Attal will be in Ottawa, where he will meet with Prime Minister Trudeau to strengthen bilateral co-operation, with a focus on climate action.
• Following the Ottawa portion of his visit, Prime Minister Attal will visit Québec City and Montréal on April 11 and 12.
• This will be Prime Minister Attal's first official visit to Canada, and his first official travel outside of the European Union since he became Prime Minister.