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Bike theft is on the rise in Canada and no one, it seems, is safe. Not even Jagmeet Singh.
The federal NDP leader, a long-time bike commuter and cycling advocate discovered his favorite Dutch cruiser was stolen recently.
A Dutch Cruiser? Is that manufactured in Canada?
h/t DM
No surprise there’s turmoil in the potato patch, weeping in the vegetable cellar.
It’s all in the wake of that Hasbro crowd sucking up to the woke crowd and trying to knock the most famous potato in the world, one of the toy company’s top-sellers for almost 70 years, off his — deservedly earned — Patriarch-of-all-the-Starches Throne, the venerable Mr. Potato Head.
Shhh.
As the city takes a second look at its fireworks bylaw — including consulting the public on how they’re sold and when they’re used — an animal rights group wants a ban on the noisy ones, opting for “quiet fireworks, because they are less terrifying for animals and people with PTSD.”
Top NORAD commander had affair with American co-worker but DND says no rules were broken
National Defence has confirmed that the top Canadian officer at NORAD had an affair with a co-worker but says the general broke no rules as the woman was outside his direct chain of command.
News of the relationship between Lt.-Gen. Chris Coates and a U.S. civilian employee comes as the conduct and ethics of the military leadership have been called into question over a couple of high-profile investigations.
MOSCOW — German Vasilyenko, an ex-porn actor and reality TV show contestant, was working a run-of-the-mill sales job in early 2020 when he quit for a career on YouTube.
The impetus was a series of messages he got after some tipsy revelry at a party hosted by a YouTuber who streamed the event live on the video-hosting platform.
Vasilyenko was used to guilt-ridden hangovers and regrets about the night before. But suddenly, he was being showered with praise.
Five professors at the University of Arizona have launched a virtual reality project to show what it’s like to experience anti-black racism, providing yet another tool to help push academia’s social narratives.
Funded with a $50,000 grant from the state university, the researchers aim to create settings, such as department meetings and classrooms, where participants wearing virtual reality headsets can see what it’s like to be black – or at least what it’s like in the version of reality created by the authors.
British parliamentarians have challenged Facebook tsar Mark Zuckerberg over the tech giant’s abortive efforts to censor a history group for discussing the traditional Black Country dish faggots and peas.
A group of Russian diplomats and their families made an unusual exit out of North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley due to strict Covid measures.
The eight people travelled by train and bus before pushing themselves across the Russian border for about 1km (0.6miles) over train tracks.
North Korea has blocked most passenger transport to limit the virus’s spread.
The country maintains it has not had any confirmed cases, but observers dispute this claim.
h/t DM
For an intelligence agency seeking new recruits, the promises of adventure and intrigue found within the pages of famous spy novels might seem like a useful recruiting tool.
But promoting a double agent who lies to his family, betrays his country and ultimately takes his own life, is possibly not a strategy that will produce the best candidates.
Doh! – Hackers share details of Canadian military spy plane on dark web
Al Jazeera staff say rightwing platform will ‘irreparably tarnish’ brand
More than a hundred staff at the Qatar-funded media organisation Al Jazeera have signed an open letter to management objecting to the launch of a rightwing digital platform that they say betrays its journalism and will “irreparably tarnish the network’s brand and work”.
The internal letter, seen by the Guardian and sent to top leaders of the media network, said the launch of Rightly on Thursday was “an affront to the ethical, journalistic and editorial vision and guidelines of Al Jazeera”.
The memo said the new conservative platform, which many staff learned about through media reporting, was “met with shock, confusion and criticism”, and came amid a period of budget cuts and layoffs that had left women of colour in particular doing more work without extra compensation.
Hundreds of workers at Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency have voted to strike — a move that comes as the threat of state-sponsored cyber attacks related to the pandemic appears to be rising.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada represents 2,400 employees working in cryptography, applied mathematics, advanced language analysis and cybersecurity at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). PSAC announced the results of the vote Wednesday.
(Note – Google Translate) … But first, a reminder of the facts: in class, a student complains of having read a shocking expression in Forestiers et Voyageurs, a novel written in 1863. The lecturer searches without really understanding, then comes across the expression “Work like niggers”, page 99. The teacher apologizes. The word slips from her lips. A discomfort ensues …
…The two students who lodged a complaint were able to report on Maria Chapdelaine rather than Forestiers et Voyageurs. Soon after, they dropped out of the course. We were still at the start of the session.
McGill University therefore reimbursed them for the course.
But not only.
“We had completed a project with the teacher, she had corrected it and me and my colleague had taken it. So, we asked how the grade for this first draft would be the grade for the rest of our session. ”
“After a lot of time and pressure,” she says, the university complied…
