“We make Canada better:” Canada Revenue Agency
According to an Access to Information document, senior management at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) praised the government finance agency as “an important part of the engine that helps Canada operate.”
The Biden era is on the horizon — but that doesn’t mean Canada-U.S. relations are back to normal
After Canada’s walk-on part in the U.S. reality-TV zeitgeist, the Joe Biden era will be boring by comparison — not such a bad thing, said Roy Norton, a former senior diplomat who did two stints at the Canadian Embassy in the 1990s and 2000s.
Discovery Islands salmon farms on their way out
B.C. salmon farm operators have been given 18 months to clear out of the Discovery Islands.
Independent biologist Alexandra Morton, who spearheaded much of the research and activism against the farms, learned of the decision from Black Press Media.
WHO chief scientist says not enough evidence that COVID vaccine prevents infection
At a press conference on Monday, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said that there is not enough evidence that the new COVID vaccines prevent infection.
Dr. Swaminathan said “I don’t believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it’s going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore passing it on.”
Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis
In recent years, investigators have realized that automobiles — particularly newer models — can be treasure troves of digital evidence. Their onboard computers generate and store data that can be used to reconstruct where a vehicle has been and what its passengers were doing. They reveal everything from location, speed and acceleration to when doors were opened and closed, whether texts and calls were made while the cellphone was plugged into the infotainment system, as well as voice commands and web histories.
We Found The Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps
In August, BuzzFeed News uncovered hundreds of compounds in Xinjiang bearing the hallmarks of prisons or detention camps, many built during the last three years in a rapid escalation of China’s campaign against Muslim minorities including Uighurs, Kazakhs, and others. A new analysis shows that at least 135 of these compounds also hold factory buildings. Forced labor on a vast scale is almost certainly taking place inside facilities like these, according to researchers and interviews with former detainees.
