Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Other A-Listers Threaten to Strike If Actors Union Demands Not Met
A-list actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and others have all vowed to strike against the studios if they do not meet the proposed demands from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) union.
I forgot all about the writer’s strike. Frankly Hollywood on strike is probably good for the collective mind.
As Canada’s population reaches the milestone of 40 million people, economists and housing experts are warning that accelerating immigration numbers could strain the country’s housing market and health-care system.
“My first reaction is that it’s great for the people coming to the country, but maybe it’s not so great for the people in the country,” Frank Clayton, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Toronto Metropolitan University, said in an interview.
A stoic Daniel Penny pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in a packed Manhattan courtroom Wednesday morning for the chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely.
The 24-year-old former Marine — who appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court clean-shaven and wearing a blue suit and maroon tie — was arraigned on charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide during the brief, minutes-long hearing.
Joseph Brean very recently wrote an excellent article about a school in crisis in Mississauga, Ont. The substance of his article was a cri de coeur about rampant violence in the hallways, threats against staff, and the school board’s heavy-handed response to a teacher who dared to speak out. It is a frightening account.
The article included comments from a Peel District School Board spokesperson. It is these remarks I’d like to deal with, particularly the jargon-infested, warm-dough language, non-substance reply to Brean’s questions.
A senior Russian general had advance knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plans to rebel against Russia’s military leadership, according to U.S. officials briefed on American intelligence on the matter, which has prompted questions about what support the mercenary leader had inside the top ranks.
The officials said they are trying to learn if Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the former top Russian commander in Ukraine, helped plan Mr. Prigozhin’s actions last weekend, which posed the most dramatic threat to President Vladimir V. Putin in his 23 years in power.
Carlson comments on Ukraine’s suspended elections.
Ep. 7 Irony Alert: the war for democracy enables dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/tk7aOZ4H6n
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 28, 2023
Two men stood outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday and burned a Quran, following the go-ahead given by a Swedish court, to coincide with the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
The man who had requested permission for the action, a 30-year-old Iraqi refugee who wants the book banned, tore out pages from the Quran, wiped them on his shoe and set some of them on fire, Swedish public broadcaster SVT said.
Around 200 people gathered to watch, including counterprotesters. One man was detained after he tried to throw a rock.
Two people have been seen kicking and ripping the Quran in central Stockholm after Sweden allowed the burning of the Quran.
One of the two people that took part in this is an Iraqi refugee named Salwan Momika who was charged after his act.pic.twitter.com/dJBcgeKL48 https://t.co/djXxJURcud— Information Worldwide (@InfoEarthwide) June 28, 2023
In an acceptance speech Monday night — peppered repeatedly with vows to deliver a “safer, caring and more affordable” Toronto — Olivia Chow’s narrative reminded me of the same hopey-changey hyperbole made by Toronto’s last NDP mayor David Miller.
Hunter Biden and his Arkansas baby mama have settled their bitter, years-long paternity battle over the daughter the First Son refuses to meet.
Hunter and former flame Lunden Roberts submitted an agreed order to Independence County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon for Circuit Judge Holly Meyer to approve, DailyMail.com has learned.
The document will become public within the next 24 hours but with heavy redactions to keep the full financial arrangements of four-year-old Navy Joan Roberts’ upbringing a secret.
On the day that the Liberal government released its climate change adaptation strategy, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was on an axe-the-carbon-tax tour of Atlantic Canada, seizing a golden political opportunity.
The four Atlantic Canadian premiers have joined together to ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to delay a July hike in carbon prices, because they worry about a consumer backlash. This week, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston published an op-ed insisting it will make life unaffordable.
Pic from SweetPea
Protests and unrest erupted in the Paris region overnight after police shot dead a 17-year-old who failed to stop when ordered to by traffic police.
Video circulating on social media shows a police officer pointing a gun at the driver of a car, before a gunshot is heard. The car then crashes to a stop.
The teenager, named as Nahel, died of bullet wounds in the chest despite help from emergency services.
The officer accused of shooting him has been detained on homicide charges.
Firefighters chased away
A Boulogne-Billancourt, les pompiers sont ciblés #Nanterre pic.twitter.com/0tU99gb7ex
— Pierre Sautarel (@FrDesouche) June 28, 2023
Fdesouche has more video – Ongoing riots in Nanterre, prefecture attacked, school in flames: the riots spread to the Paris suburbs and to the provinces… In Mantes-la-Jolie, the town hall of Val Fourré was set on fire
Drug-impaired driving rates have more than doubled since Parliament legalized cannabis, according to a report from the Department of Justice.
Released in June 2022, the report noted that the average rate of drug-impaired driving offences in Canada increased by 105 percent from 2017 to 2020—from nine to 19 offences per 10,000 population.
Two of Canada’s largest media companies — Postmedia, owner of National Post, Toronto Sun and a large fleet of major Canadian newspapers, and Nordstar, owner of the Toronto Star and other city and weekly newspapers — are in talks for a potential merger.
Why should Canadians outside of Toronto care about this past Monday’s mayoral election there?
The rest of us aren’t going to have to pay the taxes needed to cover the winner’s grandiose, lefty dreams or live with the crime caused by her ultra-progressive approaches to policing, addiction, homelessness and unemployment or put up with the frustration of her transit and bike-lane expansion or added regulations.
US spy agencies shared detailed intelligence with British officials on the Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s preparations for a mutiny against the Russian military several days before the insurgency, according to a report.
The information gathered by US intelligence on Prigozhin’s unprecedented challenge to the authority of President Putin was guarded so closely that it was shared only with select allied powers, including the UK, and not with the whole of Nato, CNN reported.
#Russia: A Russian Il-22M communications aircraft (reportedly RF-75917) was shot down by Wagner forces in #Voronezh Oblast. pic.twitter.com/CKhy4KRXoh
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 24, 2023
