‘ZOMBIE’ deer disease …

Ho Ho Ho! Zombie Deer Disease? Ha Ha Ha! Wait WTF is up with your nose?

Scientists have warned that a virus dubbed ‘Zombie deer disease’ could potentially spread to humans after the first-ever case was detected in Yellowstone National Park last month.

The fatal brain virus, which leaves animals confused, drooling, and unafraid of humans may someday infect people, as cautioned by some authorities.

The alarm was raised after a deer carcass tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Yellowstone National Park in northwest Wyoming in November.

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Golf cart sales surge as US families find unlikely alternative to second cars

Golf carts are becoming the second car of choice for families across the US, with the market anticipated to surge to more than $2 billion (£1.57 billion) within the next few years.

In retirement villages, residential communities, university campuses and small towns, it is becoming commonplace to see people driving themselves around in golf carts.

They’ve become so popular that Babcock Ranch in Florida, America’s first completely solar-powered town, has even enshrined golf carts into its design: Some of the houses have a second smaller garage, designed to fit a golf cart.

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OMG! Niagara police officer asks trans woman for ‘deadname’ while questioning her filming at bus terminal

Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) says it is reviewing an incident from Dec. 17, after an officer asked a transgender woman for her “deadname.”

It comes after the woman, Sabrina Hill, posted a video of the incident on social media.

Hill, a prominent local LGBTQ activist and licensed paralegal, told CBC Hamilton she posted the video “to highlight the very real experiences a lot of trans, queer and non-binary people experience when being policed here in the Niagara Region.”

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I had to walk home late from work so I sued my boss, and won

How can she show her face in public?

A kitchen porter at a takeaway said because women face higher levels of street harassment, having to walk home after 11.30pm was discrimination

After a few minutes on Google, Fathimath Athif found the number she had been looking for.

A survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 27 per cent of women had experienced at least one form of harassment in the last 12 months.

“I actually felt surprised that it wasn’t a higher number for women, because I’ve never met a woman who doesn’t have a story about how she’s been harassed,” Athif, a cleaner from east London, said.

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Murder charge laid in ‘senseless’ stabbing of newcomer from Ukraine: Winnipeg police

A 19-year-old man is charged with murder in what Winnipeg police call the “senseless” and unprovoked stabbing of a recent immigrant from Ukraine.

Ivan Rubanik, 46, died in hospital after he was stabbed at Watt Street and Talbot Avenue on Wednesday morning, police said. He was taken to hospital in unstable condition, where he was pronounced dead.

h/t MW

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Could the progressive vote shift from the federals Liberals to the NDP?

The downtown riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s has been a safe Liberal seat for more than three decades, with the Conservatives coming in second and the NDP usually a distant third. Nonetheless, the New Democrat vote will bear close watching in a by-election there that must be called now that incumbent MP Carolyn Bennett has retired.

The results in Toronto-St. Paul’s could tell us much about the political future of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s NDP. It could even signal whether there is any realistic prospect of the New Democrats one day overtaking the Liberals as the dominant progressive party.

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Something ‘clearly wrong’ when Hamas praises Canadian foreign policy

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received the equivalent of a long-distance high five from Hamas last week, after Canada’s affirmative U.N. vote on Dec. 12 supporting an “immediate sustainable ceasefire” in Israel’s war against the Hamas terror organization.

In a five minute English-language video statement posted on Dec. 18, Ghazi Hamad, a senior leader of the terror group, praised Canada, Australia and New Zealand by name.

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