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A U.S. congressional committee has summoned the country’s Director of National Intelligence for a briefing on the firing of two Canadian scientists from Ottawa’s high-security infectious-disease laboratory in Winnipeg.
The House of Representatives committee on energy and commerce, which is investigating the origins of COVID-19, want to know about the activities of Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, at the National Microbiology Laboratory.
There were just too many people. At 8,700 metres, above the point where a human can live but below the summit those humans hoped to reach, Everest was jammed.
Climbers queued to go up, climbers queued to go down. With each breath, their oxygen tanks lightened. With each step, the snow creaked. And then, without warning, that snow gave way.
Teenagers broke Gillian Mears’ garden gate twice, costing £500 to repair, and caused distress to her disabled husband
A grandmother was reprimanded by police after telling a group of vandals she would “wring their necks”.
Gillian Mears, 70, said she “just saw red” before chasing the teenagers away after they damaged the back gate of her house in Kessingland, Suffolk.
However, when police visited her home after she made a complaint about the damage she was warned about making threats.
A restaurant in Burnaby is being grilled after an image surfaced online, showing it has covered up the “no tip” option on its point-of-sale terminal and the move has people fuming.
h/t LS
CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta and senior political commentator and occasionally co-host of The View Ana Navarro sought on Friday to explain the “disconnect” between former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric… about migrants” and minority support for him. Navarro claimed such voters have “a very stupid attitude” and suggested they are on a doomed mission to appease racists who shoot up Walmarts.
It would have been my guess. pic.twitter.com/45TC2PXwh3
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 24, 2024
Definitely an A for effort, but points taken off because I was distracted by the watch.
Traditional belly dancing doesn’t usually include any time pieces. pic.twitter.com/k8oT1QPYRj
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 24, 2024
The Nintendo Switch remake of the iconic role-playing game “Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door” features a transgender character, the game’s creators confirmed.
The trans character, Vivian, originally appeared in the 2004 version of the game, which was released for Nintendo Game Cube.
In the new update of the game, released on Thursday, Vivian — who was born male — initially appears as a villain alongside her sisters, Marilyn and Bedlam.
h/t XC
A gunman who is accused of killing a young Ontario man and shooting four of his family members at their small Mississauga restaurant in 2021 was allegedly part of a trio who had pledged allegiance to the listed terrorist group Islamic State, a Crown attorney said in an opening statement in the Brampton murder trial this week.
The victim, 25-year-old Naim Akl, became a target when he realized the loyalties of the group, which operated a warehouse business in the Greater Toronto Area, and planned to go to Canadian authorities, said Crown Attorney David D’Iorio.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he supports an order from the International Court of Justice for Israel to stop any military campaigns in Rafah.
Hamas should lay down its arms and release the hostages still in the group’s custody, but it’s also time for Israel to stop its military campaign, said Trudeau.
Eliminating religion as a hate speech defence an idea worth exploring, says antisemitism envoy
Canada’s special envoy for combating antisemitism says she’s “very interested” in exploring the idea of eliminating religion as a possible defence against hate speech charges.
Deborah Lyons, whose mandate also includes preserving Holocaust remembrance, appeared Thursday before a parliamentary committee that is studying antisemitism on university campuses.
Jewish leaders, students and faculty have been voicing concerns about an increase in hate speech and violence since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war last fall.
Lyons said she believes universities’ equity, diversity and inclusion strategies are “failing Jews in this country” because they don’t make much mention of antisemitism specifically.
So our Antisemitism Tsarina is saying that if the DEI Cabal grants Jews victimhood status then the cabal can continue hating White People.
Why not call for the dismantling of the DEI Cabal?
Does she not get that DEI is all about anti-White racism? Or is it that she approves?
The Biden campaign has posted a job listing seeking a ‘meme manager’ prompting many to submit examples of their finest Biden meme manager memes.
h/t XC
We endlessly hear the flawed assertion that because climate change is real, we should “follow the science” and end fossil fuel use.
We hear this claim from politicians who favor swift carbon cuts, and from natural scientists themselves, as when the editor-in-chief of Nature insists “The science is clear — fossil fuels must go.”
Biker tries to race a Porsche and finds out pic.twitter.com/fZ068OdNGI
— Crazy Clips (@crazyclipsonly) May 24, 2024
These videos of the queue up Everest and the aftermath of the cornice collapse that killed a couple of people…
There's something about this that sums up so much of what's wrong with the world.
😮 pic.twitter.com/S2qv1oBAOG— tern (@1goodtern) May 24, 2024
