Because of “Don’t Say Gay” a Florida school won’t be showing students an anti-bullying video anymore. Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to introduce a bill to take away transgender rights. The Department of Veterans Affairs fails to follow through a promise to give those discharged over their sexual orientation or gender identity an honorable discharge. A federal court rules that North Carolina must include trans healthcare for its employees. There’s all that and a bit more waiting for you in Trans News Now!Īnd now the news. Gender clinics in England are being shutdown but it’s because the NHS found they were failing to service the needs of their patients and more clinics will be established. Dave Chappelle sells out Madison Square Garden and whines about being canceled. Britain’s rugby associations ban trans woman from women’s games. Transgender folks seem to be at greater risk for Long Covid. The Supreme Court of Michigan finds in favor of someone who was fired for gender nonconformity. Five Republican senators are upset that there is a trans character in the new cartoon Dead End: Paranormal Park. Florida wants to ignore the federal guidance on treatment of trans students. A South Asian trans woman is deliberately struck while riding her motorcycle. Several school boards in Virginia ask the Supreme Court to let them fire teachers who violate anti-discrimination policies. A federal judge rules a 10-year-old transgender girl can play on her school’s girl’s softball team. The co-executive producer of the film They/Them talks to The Advocate. The complete list for 2017 and the FSB's press release FSB publishes 2017 G-SIB list - Financial Stability Board for those interested in more details.What’s new in trans news? Trans singer Kim Petras will act in season two of Los Espookys on HBO. Category threes are required to keep two per cent, category twos at 1.5 per cent, and category ones, one per cent. The next group, four, must keep 2.5 per cent on hand. The FSB puts the world's top 30 banks into five pools of globally systemically important banks (or G-SIBs.) Those at the top, known as category five, must hold an additional 3.5 per cent of capital on hand, in addition to the requirements placed on all banks. The designation, by the Swiss-based Financial Stability Board, means that Canada's largest lender is big enough and important enough to have a major impact on the global financial system, but the downside is that the bank is now held to a higher standard than other banks in terms of how much capital it must keep on hand to ensure its own stability. The Royal Bank of Canada has been added to a list of 30 of the world's most systemically important banks. A few, like BRK.A, mean it when they say it. This is pretty par for the course for most companies that announce share repurchase programs. Note, especially, that when the shares got hammered in the 2008-2009 timeframes, the share counts went up, not down. There were similar (maybe even identical) share repurchase agreements in place every year, as far as I know. Most of them are in net issuance over time, in spite of whatever repurchases are undertaken.Įdit add: Here are the common share counts ('000's) for RBC the last few years. If it is like most years, it will mean that existing shareholders will be diluted, after all is said and done.Īll the big Canadian banks announce a similar repurchase program every year, and are required to announce them if they contemplate making them. The bank intends to file a notice of intention with the Toronto Stock Exchange in this regard. On September 28, 2012, there were 1,444,700,692 common shares outstanding. 12, 2012 /CNW/ - Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY) (NYSE: RY) today announced its intention, subject to the approval of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) and the Toronto Stock Exchange, to commence a normal course issuer bid through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange and to repurchase for cancellation up to 30 million of its common shares, representing approximately 2.1 per cent of the bank's outstanding common shares as at September 28, 2012.