Davos in the desert 🌴 — The Future Investment Initiative kicks off. You might start getting paid for your blood. Ontario’s EQAO scores are bad.

Saudi Arabia’s [Future Investment Initiative](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/wall-street-is-heading-to-saudi-arabia-as-us-oil-spat-simmers-1.1836247#:~:text=An escalating dispute over an,the US and Saudi Arabia.) (FII) kicks off today, with the who’s who of international finance meeting in Riyadh to talk shop, despite the icy chill hanging over Western relations.

As Canada Blood Services (CBS) deals with decade-low donation levels, the nation’s blood supply administrator hopes paying people to get jabbed will get more veins through the door.

About half of Ontario students are not meeting the provincial math standards of a B grade, according to the province’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO).

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