Self-tutoring about international business: the tutor looks at an alleged cartel. Apparently, numerous carmakers have been fined by EU antitrust authorities, to an amount of 458million Euros. The alleged cartel, it seems, involved a mutual agreement among perhaps fifteen carmakers …

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Self-tutoring about Canadian provinces: the tutor mentions his home one, Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia is kind of like a mini-Canada: diverse, complex, resourceful, and under pressure. Within it are bastions of education and tradition – many different traditions. I haven’t …

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Self-tutoring about government involvement in business: the tutor mentions an example. Apparently, Quebec’s government is injecting $413 million into the Airbus A220 program; Quebec’s total contribution to the program might now be at around $2 billion. To put this in …

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Self-tutoring about business vocabulary: the tutor makes an observation. English-speaking business people seem to think in terms of quarters. In French, it’s apparently the same, but they’re called trimestres. In this case, a trimestre is a three-month period. Source: cambridge.org