Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Each week, we break down international news into our four quadrants of risk and present ways to mitigate those risks. See below for the key issues from this week’s edition: Hazard and event risks: - Per reports, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection warned of severe air pollution in some regions of the country during current Lunar New Year period. The Lunar New Year celebrations, that began February 15 and last 15 days. - The Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) announced that it would vote to strike tomorrow, February 20. The decision to strike was made following the release of a report written by a Nova Scotia government consultant recommending the removal of elected school boards from Nova Scotia’s public schools, as well as the exclusion of school administrators from the NSTU. - Mexico’s Ministry of Interior issued an alert last week in seven states after a radioactive source was stolen from a car belonging to an engineering firm in Leon. Authorities, emergency crews, and civil protection units are l