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A national school food framework is on Chrystia Freeland’s desk. Will Ottawa say yes?

A framework for a national school food program has landed on the desk of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and with the federal budget just weeks away advocates hope the proposal will get the green light.

The proposed plan comes as food prices continue to cause political headaches for governments across the country, said Tyler Meredith, a policy thinker and former economic adviser to Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“A proposal has now been put forward to Minister Freeland, and it’s now for us to watch whether it’ll be funded in the budget,” said Meredith. “I’m cautiously optimistic.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

FBI tells passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost a panel they might be crime victims

The FBI has told passengers on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max that lost a door-plug panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime.

“I’m contacting you because we have identified you as a possible victim of a crime,” a victim specialist from the federal agency’s Seattle office wrote in the letters, which passengers received this week. “This case is currently under investigation by the FBI.”

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Inside the Taliban’s sportswashing plan for cricket ‘world power’

A little over a year before Afghanistan’s triumphs at the Cricket World Cup in India, the team was summoned to the interior ministry in Kabul for a photo call with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of a terrorist network responsible for some of the worst suicide attacks during two decades of conflict.

Now the all-powerful interior minister, Haqqani, who led the most radical Taliban faction with ties to al-Qaeda dating back to the 1980s, smiled benevolently as he was joined by a team on the cusp of a remarkable rise towards the top tier of cricket.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, WTF?

Cancelled for joking about Hamas: why ‘hate speech’ zealots are killing comedy

When the Herald newspaper published its report on March 19, advising that “Police Scotland’s officers are being told they should target actors and comedians under Scotland’s new hate crime laws”, the comedian Al Murray delivered a pithy, pretty unprintable response on X: “F___ this”. Later he elaborated: “I normally suck my teeth at the ‘haven’t you got anything better to do copper?’ reflex, but for this I make the exception…” He added: “It’ll mean the law looking daft.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", WTF?

Stellantis lays off about 400 salaried workers to handle uncertainty in EV transition

DETROIT — Jeep maker Stellantis is laying off about 400 white-collar workers in the U.S. as it deals with the transition from combustion engines to electric vehicles.

The company formed in the 2021 merger between PSA Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler said the workers are mainly in engineering, technology and software at the headquarters and technical center in Auburn Hills, Michigan, north of Detroit. Affected workers were being notified starting Friday morning.

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CIA blocked feds from interviewing Hunter Biden’s ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris during five-year tax probe

The CIA blocked federal investigators from interviewing Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother” Kevin Morris during a five-year probe into the first son’s alleged tax crimes, a whistleblower has told House impeachment leaders.

House Oversight and Judiciary Committee chairmen say the whistleblower informed them the intelligence agency stopped IRS and Justice Department investigators from interviewing Morris in August 2021, a Hollywood lawyer and patron of the first son, according to a Thursday letter addressed to CIA Director William Burns.

h/t Mauser

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Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of private school that wouldn’t let Muslim students pray

The country’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of a private Calgary school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students who were denied prayer space on campus.

The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling Thursday ends a 12-year legal battle to overturn an Alberta Human Rights Commission (HRC) decision that resulted in a $26,000 fine against Webber Academy.

As is the SCC’s practice, no reasons were given for the court’s refusal to hear the appeal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

American Airlines passenger yelled about ‘blue-eyed white devils’ and threatened to ‘take this plane down’: affidavit

The hate-spewing American Airlines passenger seen in a viral video being put in a headlock and marched off a flight also drunkenly ranted about “blue-eyed white devils” — and threatened to “take this plane down with all you mother f–kers on it,” according to court documents.

The passenger, identified as 29-year-old Florida man Shail Patel, had already been accused of hurling an antisemitic slur at a flight attendant during the wild scuffle on American Airlines Flight 2506 from his hometown of Tampa to Philadelphia on Tuesday.

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Ontario bought a pair of ferries for $94M. More than 2 years later they’re still not in service

A pair of electric ferries, purchased by the province for roughly $94 million, have yet to begin full service more than two years after arriving in the waters around Kingston, Ont.

In fact, the Amherst Islander II (AI2) has yet to transport its first passenger.

The Wolfe Islander IV (WI4), meanwhile, has welcomed aboard just 2,614 passengers to date, according to figures obtained by CBC through a freedom of information request.

Why can’t anything be done right? h/t Mauser

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Mass shooting and explosion reported at concert hall near Moscow

A renowned Moscow region concert venue and shopping centre is on fire on Friday evening, following reports of a mass shooting incident.

At least three gunmen, wearing combat fatigues, burst into Crocus City Hall and fired automatic weapons, injuring dozens of patrons and killing a significant number of them, according to Russian media.

Twitter – #Moscow

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, WTF?

Jamie Sarkonak: The Montreal company that has turned your video games woke

Video games are the distraction of choice for many people, offering a temporary escape hatch from cost of living challenges, transgender bathroom debates or United States election discourse. Naturally, this made games a ripe target for opportunistic firms to shove their social politics.

A reckoning was bound to happen — and in the past month, the hammer has come down. Specifically, on a Canadian company named Sweet Baby Inc.

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