Israel’s leadership is pushing the allegations that Hamas fighters raped Israeli women during the October 7 attacks for its own political objectives while the government’s ongoing refusal to allow the United Nations to conduct a full investigation into the matter threatens to hinder any evidence, advocates have warned.
As online fast-fashion retailer Shein ramps up its pre-IPO charm offensive in Britain, pushback is growing too from Europe's retail industry and lawmakers....
We should be forcing ALL of the provincial gov'ts to shut down their billion dollar medical oversight bureaucracy and spending those saving on raising nurse's and physician's wages.
Honest to gawd, I have tried my best to find a breakdown of the hundreds of millions of dollars my province spends ... but they don't publish it. They prefer if we don't know so can't call them on their secret privatization plans.
Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency Unrwa....
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a fresh setback in his struggling election campaign on Friday when he apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations early in order to give an interview attacking the main opposition party....
Rania Hamza calls it “a coincidence” that an engineer, a biologist and a lawyer at the same Toronto university were independently worrying about the harmful substances and chemicals being flushed down Ontario’s toilets. Three years ago, after figuring out they were all interested in the same thing, the unlikely trio came...
Led by the Simgigyet’m Gitanyow (Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs), the plan to bring cultural fire back to the land is guided by Gwelx ye’enst — the rights and responsibilities to sustainably pass on the land from one generation to the next — and part of the nation’s work to protect the territory. Vegh says she’s been...
Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research....
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory....
A B.C. mother is recounting the harrowing story of hiding from a bear that invaded her home in Rossland, B.C., about 380 kilometres east of Vancouver, while she and her 9-year-old daughter were hosting a friend for a sleepover....
First, policing practices. Close to midnight on Canada Day, TPS detective-constable Jeffrey Northrup and his partner, then detective-constable Lisa Forbes, were responding to reports of a stabbing in the vicinity. They were in plain clothes. Police officers assigned to work out of uniform do not generally respond to emergency...
Through naïveté and mindless belief in the universal benefits of academic exchange, some of Canada’s leading universities have contributed to the militarization of the Far East....
Few people drive into Richmound, Saskatchewan, without purpose. The town, with a population of just over 100, lies around seventy-five kilometres from the Trans-Canada Highway, near the Alberta border. So when a caravan of RVs and motorhomes drove into town one day last September, it caused quite a stir. The vehicles were...
A high-profile Canadian employment lawyer is to be disciplined this morning over his hardball tactics against some of his firm's dissatisfied clients, after two of them posted critical reviews online and a third refused to pay her bill....
Iran-backed Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood....
Wildfires forced thousands of Albertans to temporarily leave their homes this spring, but hundreds of residents are still grappling with the effects of last year's fires, having no homes yet to return to....
Five years after a national inquiry delivered more than 200 recommendations aimed at protecting Indigenous women and girls from going missing or being murdered, former commissioners say there's been too little systemic change across the country....
Small(ish) farming operations have been disappearing for decades. It's just accelerated now, with greedy investors caring more about a cash grab than the fact farms feed us all.
They're right. To add to the shitstorm, Harper sold off the Canadian Wheat Board to a US corp and Saudi investment fund ... which undermined the farmer collective from guaranteeing farmers received the best price possible for their product.
The following is a great article about the fallout.
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
Beyond his job as a freelance process server in Toronto, thirty-five-year-old Josh Chernofsky didn’t have much going on in the spring of 2019. But over time, he’d developed a rapport with one of the security guards at the University Avenue courthouses. They’d chat about this and that, often about security work; Chernofsky...
For Manning, the most time-consuming component of the process is helping her clients battle through the void. They’re often left with a deep sense of personal loss: of close friendships, brotherhood, and community. Forming, or repairing, non-extremist relationships is no picnic. “Learning to trust people outside of the movement,” Manning says, “that one can be hard.” Leavers also lose their sense of identity and purpose.
I went through all of this when I left the church. It's a terrifying thing to realize that many forms of Christianity operate as, and have morphed into, cults.
The federal Liberals and NDP say conservative politicians are displaying a pattern of attacks against Speakers' independence, an allegation the Conservatives in Ottawa strongly deny....
Two and a half years after Norman Tate's son was killed in a car accident, he's still struggling to come to terms with how the justice system handled the aftermath....
Live Nation Entertainment said on Friday it was investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster unit that it discovered on May 20, the latest in a string of high-profile corporate hacks in the past year....
A 51-year-old Calgary man who suffers debilitating cluster headaches has won a Federal Court battle forcing Health Canada to reconsider his bid for legal access to psilocybin to treat his extreme pain....
Reclusive Quebec billionaire Robert G. Miller, who allegedly paid several young girls in exchange for sexual favours, was arrested Thursday afternoon and faces 21 charges, including sexual assault, obtaining sexual services for consideration and several counts of sexual exploitation of minors....
Israel’s obstruction of investigation into 7 October rape allegations risks truth never being found, advocates warn ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
Israel’s leadership is pushing the allegations that Hamas fighters raped Israeli women during the October 7 attacks for its own political objectives while the government’s ongoing refusal to allow the United Nations to conduct a full investigation into the matter threatens to hinder any evidence, advocates have warned.
‘We’re in 1938 now’: Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history ( www.theguardian.com )
Interesting article that talks about the similarities between now and 1938, and the sort of lessons we can learn from history.
'Give us $600 and also we hate you': WestJet's new UltraBasic fare gets roasted online ( www.cbc.ca )
If there's anything people can agree on these days, it's that flying sucks....
Shein's pre-IPO charm offensive hits roadblocks in Europe ( www.reuters.com )
As online fast-fashion retailer Shein ramps up its pre-IPO charm offensive in Britain, pushback is growing too from Europe's retail industry and lawmakers....
Inside the Campaign to Kill a Step Toward Tax Fairness ( thetyee.ca )
It’s been almost two months since the federal budget, and anguished cries about the horror of capital gains tax changes are still coming....
‘We have normalised horror’ says agency official, after Israeli strike on school ( www.theguardian.com )
Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency Unrwa....
Britain's Rishi Sunak apologizes for leaving D-Day event early to return to campaigning ( www.cbc.ca )
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a fresh setback in his struggling election campaign on Friday when he apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations early in order to give an interview attacking the main opposition party....
New contaminants emerge in the Great Lakes | The Narwhal ( thenarwhal.ca )
Rania Hamza calls it “a coincidence” that an engineer, a biologist and a lawyer at the same Toronto university were independently worrying about the harmful substances and chemicals being flushed down Ontario’s toilets. Three years ago, after figuring out they were all interested in the same thing, the unlikely trio came...
Using fire to heal the land — and mitigate B.C. wildfires | The Narwhal ( thenarwhal.us15.list-manage.com )
Led by the Simgigyet’m Gitanyow (Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs), the plan to bring cultural fire back to the land is guided by Gwelx ye’enst — the rights and responsibilities to sustainably pass on the land from one generation to the next — and part of the nation’s work to protect the territory. Vegh says she’s been...
Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work ( www.theguardian.com )
Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research....
Revealed: the carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza after months of Israeli bombing ( www.theguardian.com )
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall ( www.bbc.com )
A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself....
Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket ( www.bbc.com )
Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become....
Putin warns that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets ( apnews.com )
President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory....
Bear crashes 9-year-old's sleepover, trashes Rossland, B.C., home ( www.cbc.ca )
A B.C. mother is recounting the harrowing story of hiding from a bear that invaded her home in Rossland, B.C., about 380 kilometres east of Vancouver, while she and her 9-year-old daughter were hosting a friend for a sleepover....
Ontario underspending on social services by $3.7B: watchdog ( www.cbc.ca )
Video captures Winnipeg police officer threatening arrest, swearing at mother ( www.aptnnews.ca )
A mother in Winnipeg says a confrontation with police has left her and her family shaken....
The Murder Trial That Exposed Toronto’s Police Misconduct Crisis | The Walrus ( thewalrus.ca )
First, policing practices. Close to midnight on Canada Day, TPS detective-constable Jeffrey Northrup and his partner, then detective-constable Lisa Forbes, were responding to reports of a stabbing in the vicinity. They were in plain clothes. Police officers assigned to work out of uniform do not generally respond to emergency...
Canada’s Universities Are a Pipeline for Chinese Military Technology | The Walrus ( thewalrus.ca )
Through naïveté and mindless belief in the universal benefits of academic exchange, some of Canada’s leading universities have contributed to the militarization of the Far East....
How the “Queen of Canada” and Conspiracy Theorists Splintered a Small Town | The Walrus ( thewalrus.ca )
Few people drive into Richmound, Saskatchewan, without purpose. The town, with a population of just over 100, lies around seventy-five kilometres from the Trans-Canada Highway, near the Alberta border. So when a caravan of RVs and motorhomes drove into town one day last September, it caused quite a stir. The vehicles were...
Lawyer whose firm sued ex-clients for more than $1 million faces discipline ( www.cbc.ca )
A high-profile Canadian employment lawyer is to be disciplined this morning over his hardball tactics against some of his firm's dissatisfied clients, after two of them posted critical reviews online and a third refused to pay her bill....
Former UCP MLA Derek Fildebrandt facing criminal charges, accused of threatening teens ( www.cbc.ca )
Former Alberta UCP MLA Derek Fildebrandt faces criminal charges, accused of threatening a group of teenagers, CBC News has learned....
Iran's allies in Iraq are firing at Israel. Could that trigger a wider war? ( www.reuters.com )
Iran-backed Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood....
Hundreds of Alberta evacuees still in hotels, temporary accommodations after 2023 wildfires ( www.cbc.ca )
Wildfires forced thousands of Albertans to temporarily leave their homes this spring, but hundreds of residents are still grappling with the effects of last year's fires, having no homes yet to return to....
5 years after MMIWG inquiry's final report, former commissioners still waiting for progress ( www.cbc.ca )
Five years after a national inquiry delivered more than 200 recommendations aimed at protecting Indigenous women and girls from going missing or being murdered, former commissioners say there's been too little systemic change across the country....
Investors reshaped Canadian home real estate. Something similar is happening in agriculture ( www.cbc.ca )
When asked if young, aspiring farmers ever inquired about buying his farm, Marcus Collinson just laughs....
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents ( www.404media.co )
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
“It’s Like a Cult”: Breaking Free from the Far Right | The Walrus ( thewalrus.ca )
Beyond his job as a freelance process server in Toronto, thirty-five-year-old Josh Chernofsky didn’t have much going on in the spring of 2019. But over time, he’d developed a rapport with one of the security guards at the University Avenue courthouses. They’d chat about this and that, often about security work; Chernofsky...
Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina ( www.cbc.ca )
Imagine walking into a store, picking out all your groceries for the week and not having to worry about facing an expensive bill at the checkout....
Conservative attacks on Speakers in Ottawa, Regina part of a pattern, say Liberals and NDP ( www.cbc.ca )
The federal Liberals and NDP say conservative politicians are displaying a pattern of attacks against Speakers' independence, an allegation the Conservatives in Ottawa strongly deny....
Long delays and collapsed cases are eroding faith in the justice system, lawyers warn ( www.cbc.ca )
Two and a half years after Norman Tate's son was killed in a car accident, he's still struggling to come to terms with how the justice system handled the aftermath....
Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirms data breach ( www.cbc.ca )
Live Nation Entertainment said on Friday it was investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster unit that it discovered on May 20, the latest in a string of high-profile corporate hacks in the past year....
Young Canadians are being priced out of home ownership and even parenthood. Why on earth would mandatory national service make them love their country more? ( www.thestar.com )
Health Canada must reconsider man's bid to use magic mushrooms for cluster headaches, Federal Court rules ( www.cbc.ca )
A 51-year-old Calgary man who suffers debilitating cluster headaches has won a Federal Court battle forcing Health Canada to reconsider his bid for legal access to psilocybin to treat his extreme pain....
Quebec billionaire Robert Miller arrested, charged with sex offences against 10 victims ( www.cbc.ca )
Reclusive Quebec billionaire Robert G. Miller, who allegedly paid several young girls in exchange for sexual favours, was arrested Thursday afternoon and faces 21 charges, including sexual assault, obtaining sexual services for consideration and several counts of sexual exploitation of minors....
A tale of two convoy trials ( www.cbc.ca )
The three of them once stood side-by-side as road captains of a historic protest....