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Saying the Vancouver Art Gallery has reached a “critical inflection point,” VAG leaders are making deep cuts to staff and programming - amounting to about 30 per cent of expenses and its work force, which will affect all areas of the gallery and all departments. The reductions are being made as attendance and revenue are at a 15-year low, and at the direction of the board to deliver a balanced budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. “Every single department is being impacted,” co-interim chief executive officer Eva Respini told The Globe and Mail in an interview. She said they will...

As the U.S. government takes big steps to usher cryptocurrency into mainstream finance, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges is urging the Canadian government to match and exceed those efforts, even as concerns mount. Coinbase Global Inc. COIN-Q is pushing hard to educate Canadian politicians about the moment in the hope of seeing someone in government champion the cause, said Lucas Matheson, who leads the company’s Canadian division.