Ottawa urged to crack down on Facebook after bombshell whistleblower testimony before U.S. Senate
Startling testimony delivered this week by a former Facebook employee should spur Ottawa to rein in the social media giant with tougher and more comprehensive regulations, say technology experts and people fighting against online hate.
Tackling anti-Black racism in Canadian health care: Experts putting together first primer of its kind
In Canada, many medical students aren’t taught specifically how best to treat Black patients and how to keep anti-Black racism out of health care — with patients suffering the consequences.
Now, a collaboration of prominent Canadian Black health researchers are coming together to change that, aiming to create the first health primer of its kind to educate health care providers and ultimately improve care for Black Canadians.
Pfizer to seek Canadian approval for its vaccine for kids as young as five in about a week
The first COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 12 could be in front of Health Canada’s review team in just days and the company expects to start shipping its new pediatric formulation of the vaccine shortly after it gets the green light.
I’m starting to think this guy may be one of the baddies. pic.twitter.com/opL2jUOkJh
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) October 6, 2021
All Social Media Users Should Give Platforms Personal Information, Have ‘Opinions’ Verified As ‘True’: Don Lemon
Politicians and the legacy media should be able to know the real name and physical location of every individual who posts any negative comment about them on any online platform, said CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday night. He added that social media platforms should only allow people to post their “opinion” if it is “true.”
Twitter wants to flag ‘heated’ or ‘intense’ conversations
Twitter announced Wednesday it is testing a feature that will alert users that a conversation could be “heated” or “intense.” In a tweet, the company described the experiment as “a work in progress as we learn how to better support healthy conversation.”
Democrats Attempt To Provoke Violence
In the years running up to the 2020 election, I posited that the Democrat Party was doing all it could to keep their mob angry, but only to a certain point. They wanted their base simmering, just short of a boil, but ready at a moment’s notice to goose step off to action wherever needed. It was a delicate line they walked, they needed people mad without inspiring violence that could be blamed on them, they had to avoid creating another James Hodgkinson. Now their objective has changed…slightly. Democrats appear to be doing all they can to provoke violence against their own. Anything, absolutely anything, for the cause.
