Followers of QAnon ‘Queen of Canada’ face mounting problems after being convinced utilities are free

After being persuaded to disregard bill payments by a Filipino QAnon influencer who told her followers that she is the Queen of Canada, believers are now facing thousands of dollars’ worth of bills and utility outages.

Romana Didulo rose to popularity over the last two years after several QAnon influencers “confirmed” that she had sovereign power over Canada, growing over 70,000 followers on the instant messaging platform Telegram.

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‘People say they want me arrested’: the owners putting their pets on vegan diets

The vegan pet food industry is now worth billions. But can plant-based meals really meet a dog or cat’s nutritional needs?

Father Terry Martin, a Catholic priest in West Sussex, became a vegan almost three years ago. The transition was fairly abrupt: he was alone eating a roast dinner with his dog Pepe on his knees (“I know,” he says. “Terrible.”) when he was struck by the realisation that the animal he was eating had been “just as sentient as the one sitting on my lap”.

I don’t know about arrested but horsewhipped certainly.

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Writer’s essay on why she plagiarized in her debut novel about a young black woman is pulled after it’s found she COPIED that too

A writer’s essay explaining why she plagiarized parts of what would have been her debut novel has been deleted after it was revealed she copied that as well.

Jumi Bello’s book The Leaving was scheduled to come out on July 12 and had appeared on several ‘most anticipated’ lists, according to Publisher’s Market, when its publisher Riverhead Books suddenly scrapped it in December.

The 30-year-old has now revealed the reason the book was abruptly canceled when it was in its final stages was because she admitted to the New York City-based publishing company she had plagiarized parts of the novel.

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They really do want your children.

Amazon pulls sexually explicit childrenswear from its Canadian site following complaint

Amazon has pulled from its e-commerce website several children’s clothing items displaying a sexually explicit message, following a CBC News investigation.

The items, sold by third-party sellers, included a dress, T-shirt, summer hat and hoodies boldly displaying the message “I love c–k,” using a heart emoji. Sometimes a rooster emoji replaced the word, “c–k,” which is another word for a rooster and slang for a male appendage.

 

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Are ‘Variety’ and ‘Rolling Stone’ Flacks for Amber Heard’s PR Team?

Two articles published within minutes of each other, one at Variety and one at Rolling Stone, were surprisingly similar and favorable toward Amber Heard. Todd Spangler, who writes for Variety, posted an article called “Tik Tok Trend: Videos Ridiculing Amber Heard’s Testimony in Johnny Depp Case” at 2:08 p.m. on May 9. The same day, EJ Dickson published her article called, “Demoralizing and Demeaning: A Gross Tik Tok Trend Mocking Amber Heard is Going Viral,” at 2:32 p.m.

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Canada’s defence minister says the world is ‘growing darker’ and ‘more chaotic’

Defence Minister Anita Anand says the world is “growing darker.”

Speaking at a conference of defence experts organized by the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Tuesday, Anand emphasized the more “chaotic” state of the world means Canada will need to take a more “bold and aggressive” look at its own continental defence.

“We do live in a world at the present time that appears to be growing darker,” she said in a keynote speech to the conference.

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DHS disinformation ‘czar’ Jankowicz pushed Trump-Russia claims at center of Durham case

Probably insane.

If the Biden administration is so concerned about disinformation, it may want to take a closer look at its own “czar.”

Nina Jankowicz, who was recently tapped to head the Department of Homeland Security’s nascent Disinformation Governance Board, had no qualms about pushing the since-debunked claim in 2016 that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had a tie to Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank — allegations that were raised by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and are now a focus of special counsel John Durham’s investigation.

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Animal Rebellion: Activists want meat cut from Wales’ school dinners – Becuz the Kidz suffer “eco-anxiety”

Activists Animal Rebellion are urging councils to drop meat from school dinners at least two days a week.

The group is lobbying councils across the UK and claims to have persuaded one in England to sign up.

Member Dave France, from Welshpool, Powys, claimed children had record levels of “eco-anxiety”.

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