
Head of Radio-Canada spent month of December in his Miami condo despite public health warnings
The head of Radio-Canada, the French arm of Canada’s public broadcaster, spent nearly the entire month of December working and vacationing in Miami, despite public health advice strongly discouraging travel, the National Post has learned.
Canada’s ‘ugly face’ exposed with new measures on Xinjiang forced labour, China says
“The so-called ‘forced labor’ and ‘mass arbitrary detention’ are just a concoction fanned up by some US and Western institutions and personnel,” read the Chinese embassy’s statement, published on Wednesday.
Report urges northern Ontario to focus on attracting, retaining newcomers
Communities in northern Ontario should be inclusive and make newcomers feel welcome if they want to help bolster dwindling populations, a newly released report urges.
Refuse to Be Silenced
Parler’s gone for now, the victim of a conspiracy to silence, but it will return. The fascists can try, but they can’t shut us up forever. Truth flows like water around obstacles. The Twitbookgram decided to start playing whack-a-prole to bonk unapproved ideas on the noggin and pretty soon too many heads will be popping up out of too many new holes. They will pop up on Gab, or Clouthub, or Dave Rubin’s Locals.com. People will find a way to be heard.
Once you leave their personal domains, the tech overlords become…irrelevant, and powerless.
No, AOC, It’s Not the Government’s Job to ‘Rein in Our Media’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) told her social media followers earlier this week that Democrats in Congress might respond to the Capitol riot with some sort of “media literacy” initiative.
The phrase media literacy ordinarily implies helping individuals make sense of the media landscape, but AOC seems to have more in mind than that: She suggested “we’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation.”
Democrats Demand Probe Into Capitol Tours The Day Before Assault
Over two dozen House Democrats are calling for an internal investigation of Capital Hill tours led by members of Congress the day before the Jan. 6 siege of the building by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Members of Congress regularly give tours of the Capitol building to supporters, but in a live stream on Facebook on Tuesday, New Jersey Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill said, without evidence, that unspecified members of Congress gave “reconnaissance” tours to groups of people on Jan. 5.
