The plural of “anecdote” is not “data” but the episode described here is noteworthy for more than one reason, starting with the fact that the author, Allan Massie, is an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins. He studies infection for a living, so he knows what it means when a group of supposedly immune people discover that they’re not as immune as they thought.
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is headed to court to “refreeze funds” of the family linked to the alleged theft of $11 million in COVID-19 relief aid.
In documents filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the province alleges “some or all of” Sanjay Madan, his spouse Shalini, their adult sons Chinmaya and Ujjawal, and associate Vidhan Singh perpetrated “a massive fraud” to funnel pandemic cash to numerous bank accounts at branches of TD, Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada, Tangerine, and India’s ICICI Bank.
Shalini and her sons have denied any wrongdoing and insist they are victims of “identity theft” because bank accounts were set up in their names without their knowledge.
It’s always somebody else’s fault: Sanjay Madan has blamed the Conservative government for failing “to implement sufficient safeguards in its software and hardware systems to prevent unauthorized transactions, detect unusual patterns, and avoid excessive losses.”
Pakistan on Thursday deployed paramilitary troops in a conservative town in the eastern Punjab province, a day after a Muslim crowd attacked and badly damaged a Hindu temple there.
In Delhi, India’s foreign ministry summoned a Pakistani diplomat to protest against the attack and demand protection for Hindus living in the predominantly Muslim Pakistan.
Wednesday’s attack took place in the town of Bhong in Rahim Yar Khan district after a court granted bail to an eight-year-old Hindu boy who allegedly desecrated a madrassa, or religious school, earlier in the week. The mob damaged statues, burned down the temple’s main door and briefly blocked a nearby road.
Burgerville is a chain that has about 40 locations, 20 of which are in Portland. Yesterday the CEO announced that one of those restaurants would be closing temporarily because of the rising crime and problems related to homelessness in the area.
The New York attorney general’s damning report portrays Governor Andrew Cuomo as not only a sexual harasser but a misappropriator of state resources.
The saga of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s downfall attracts prurient interest. But strip away the supposedly titillating details—which weren’t so titillating to the near-dozen women who allegedly experienced them—of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s 168-page investigative document into Cuomo’s workplace behavior, and you get not just sexual harassment, which is bad enough, but something just as unacceptable: garden-variety public corruption, including misappropriation of state resources. As the state legislature impeaches Cuomo, lawmakers shouldn’t leave this part out. Abusing taxpayer resources is an important sin, too.
Gun control is one of those ideas pushed by many of the same people who claim to be the champions of the poor. It’s amazing to me how often those denigrating the wealthy and calling for more effort to help the poor, then take on positions that negatively impact those very same poor people.
Smuggling migrants into the U.S. earns cartels and others involved in the practice as much as $6 billion a year, a senior Homeland Security official told Congress.
That staggering figure is much higher than other public estimates, though experts said they wouldn’t be surprised if the actual amount were higher still.
So much for being non-partisan.
A prominent doctor who sits on the Ontario Science Table is expected to be acclaimed later this month as an Ontario Liberal candidate for next year’s provincial election.
You may have met Geoffrey already, an adorable pink robot with hearts for eyes. A chunky, cheery droid who uses the pronouns “they/them” and reminds you to buy local, Geoffrey traverses downtown Toronto offering low-contact, low-cost food delivery at the tap of a smart phone.
How do they do it? In some cases, the answer isn’t local at all: while you may see Geoffrey ambling down your street, their driver might well be based in the Philippines — a 17-hour flight away.
The Canadian brainchild of ex-Uber engineers, Geoffrey is part of a wave of autonomous vehicle innovation that could — quite literally — change the face of the gig economy. For some human delivery couriers, that raises a question now international in scope: what are the implications for workers?
Cute but impractical in the planned urban dystopia of the future where roving gangs of unemployed deliverymen plunder at every opportunity.
A group of Brooklyn elementary-schoolers celebrating diversity through art got a tough lesson in adult politics after administrators deemed their cafeteria mural too divisive and had it removed, furious parents and teachers say.
Two women who stole a “Make America Great Again” hat from a President Trump supporter at the Democratic National Convention have pleaded guilty to hate crimes in connection to the viral confrontation.
Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy were caught on video on Aug. 20 destroying Trump signs and snatching a red MAGA cap outside the DNC in Wilmington, Delaware, as Joe Biden gave his acceptance speech.
ZURICH (Sputnik) – Swiss prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Libyan imam with a hate crime over a sermon in which he called for attacks on people of other religions or ethnicity, media said.
Climate czar John Kerry’s family jet has flown 16 times this year alone amid what Kerry alleges to be a “climate crisis.”
“The climate crisis is the test of our own times and, while it may be unfolding in slow motion to some, this test is as acute and as existential as any previous one. Time is running out,” Kerry said in July.
Quebec Premier François Legault says his government will impose a vaccine passport system following a recent rise in COVID-19 infections.
Legault says Health Minister Christian Dubé will announce details in the coming days about how the system will work and when it will begin.
This comes as the province reported 305 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday as Quebec continues to see a daily surge in infections.
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