In their motion for summary judgment filed last week regarding the $1 billion defamation suit against them, CNN argued that their allegedly defamatory reporting accusing Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young of a crime was factually true because his efforts to get women and children out Afghanistan were illegal under Taliban law; or as it’s more infamously known: Sharia law. All as the U.S. approaches the three-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Despite clear signs behind the scenes that Toronto’s vacant home tax had been going off the rails for months, the city’s chief financial officer didn’t get crucial data about its low response rates until two days before the program deadline.
The CFO took action to boost uptake of the program, but a key measure that could have helped was rejected by a senior director, who appeared to blame the low response rate on homeowners who didn’t “follow the rules.”
Michigan’s Alma Cooper, a U.S. Army officer, was named Miss USA on Sunday. In claiming the title she became the third person to take the crown this year following the shock resignation of 2023’s winner.
When I moved to Canada from Maryland in 2016, I was in desperate need of a job while I pursued my theatre degree at the University of Ottawa. Lucky me: a call centre was steps from campus — in fact, I could see the drab office building from my dorm room window.
On my first day, my trainer told me this particular call centre focused on “market research” — a fancy phrase for surveys. Those initial few weeks on the phone, I called Canadians on behalf of organizations like Statistics Canada, asking how they felt about everything from their garbage collection to their single-use coffee makers. The gig was mind-numbingly boring, a test of my capacity to sit still for eight hours a day.
One of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cousins says she had no idea he was behind the dead bear cub dumped in Central Park in 2014 when she reported on its discovery while working for the New York Times.
Former Times reporter Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of RFK Jr.’s cousin Caroline Kennedy, wrote about the mystery ordeal when the bear was first discovered under a bicycle, as if it had been fatally hit by the wheels, in the park a decade ago.
This St. John’s trans man thought it wasn’t possible for him to get pregnant. Then it happened
Last year, Forrest Sandifer of St. John’s wasn’t feeling well. He was having stomach issues and found no answers and no relief after multiple doctor visits.
After blood work and other tests, his physician started talking about what some fear most: cancer. Specifically, a pituitary gland tumour.
Further testing and an MRI were scheduled. But the 27-year-old had a gut feeling.
Olympics organisers are facing fresh questions about the conditions in the athletes’ village and the water quality in the River Seine, after a gold medallist was spotted sleeping in a park, and a number of athletes have fallen ill. There’s been headache after headache for Paris Games officials through the first week of competition – and two of the biggest talking points have been the athletes’ village and River Seine.
h/t DS
… Above all, it’s time to discard the misguided notion that the purpose of immigration is to fill labour shortages and build a bigger work force. That idea has been promoted by Canada’s business associations and adopted by the Liberal government.
More immigration doesn’t necessarily reduce labour shortages. A bigger labour force won’t necessarily make Canada richer. But a better labour force will.
Canada is run by greedy stupid people. It is entirely possible that the continued mass import of incompatible cultures will result in our own UK style anti-immigration riots.
Nice fake staged walk of one block within a policed corridor prior to the actual parade start. Everything about you is fake. Everything. #NameTheTraitors and resign in shame.
— Ken Turner 🇨🇦 (@KenTurner01) August 5, 2024
h/t Mauser
A businessman worth around £200 million is seeking planning permission to fly a flag reading “woke-free zone” outside his company’s headquarters.
Alex Lovén, 36, came under fire for erecting the anti-woke flag outside the Net World Sports base on the Wrexham Industrial Estate.
A Labrador man has lost his bid for a long-sought public hearing about his detainment by police in 2015 at a mental health hospital for a post he made on social media.
Andrew Abbass has alleged for years that his detention by members of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary at a western Newfoundland hospital was illegal, and he has fought for a hearing that would examine the circumstances of his arrest.
In a decision dated Thursday, an adjudicator with the force’s public complaints commission said such a hearing would be “desirable” but ruled that Abbass did not file his complaint soon enough.
“How about this Premier of N.L. I’m going to bring down Confederation and have politicians executed,” one of Abbass’s tweets said. “Ready to have me shot, coward?”
Doesn’t seem an unreasonable thing to say about Trudeau.
🚨🇬🇧 “Am I going to be locked up for the night? Do I need to bring my medications?”
Welcome to 2024 Britain where The Police arrive at your home to arrest you for comments made on Facebook.
As Britain descends into lawless chaos – the Governments priority clearly isn’t fixing… pic.twitter.com/YmxBj92aCl
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) August 5, 2024
