Food prices in Canada likely to increase by 3 to 5% next year: report

That’s the conclusion of the 15th annual food price report released Thursday by a partnership that includes researchers at Dalhousie University, the University of Guelph, University of Saskatchewan and University of British Columbia.

The report’s authors used three different machine learning and AI models to make their predictions, and concluded a Canadian family of four can expect to spend $16,833.67 on food in 2025 — an increase of up to $801.56 from last year.

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New York Starbucks image may hold key to finding healthcare CEO’s killer

Police in New York are using facial recognition technology and a discarded mobile phone to track down the killer of a healthcare chief executive.

UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in the back on Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

The attacker fled the scene without taking any of Thompson’s belongings. Police believe the victim was targeted in a pre-planned killing.

They are focusing on a surveillance image taken in a branch of Starbucks just before the shooting.

Here’s what we know about the suspect and the investigation.

 

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Wikipedia’s Quiet Revolution: How a Coordinated Group of Editors Reshaped the Israeli-Palestinian Narrative

In an era dominated by search engines and instant information, Wikipedia holds an outsized influence. For millions of users, it is often the first — and sometimes the only — source of information on global events and historical contexts. Yet, as investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg revealed in an explosive report, a quiet yet coordinated operation has taken root among the online encyclopedia’s editors, monumentally reshaping the way the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is perceived.

In a conversation with The Algemeiner this week, Rindsberg asserted that the campaign has “actually changed what appears to be the face of not just the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but of the entire justification for Israel’s right to exist and legitimacy, which is the real aim.”

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This holiday season, let’s spread kindness, not COVID

Many people seem to believe that the pandemic is over. Or, at least, they don’t hear about COVID-19 much anymore. Tests are difficult to find. Mask mandates are a thing of the past. “Surely if it was still a problem,” one might speculate, “then the government would say something, right?” And one might be forgiven for thinking so.

However, governments are political entities, and politicians seem to have learned that COVID-19 is not a popular subject. Yet, if one were to look at data from wastewater testing, hospitalization numbers, and test positivity rates, it would be obvious that COVID-19 is thriving in Quebec.

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Globalist Billionaire Bill Gates Slammed for Treating India as His Personal Testing Ground for Dangerous Experiments

Billionaire globalist Bill Gates is facing a massive backlash after casually referring to India as a “kind of laboratory to try things out” during a podcast with Reid Hoffman. For many Indians, this statement exposed the arrogance of Gates and his belief that he could treat sovereign nations as mere testing grounds for his globalist experiments.

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Dagny Pawlak: Trudeau’s weak leadership is eroding Canada’s moral clarity when we need it most

 

This week’s anti-Israel protest at Parliament Hill’s Confederation Building highlighted the consequences of our political leadership’s failure to confront the deepening divisions within Canadian society over the Israel-Palestine conflict, as radical voices found their way to the very doorstep of those in power. The protest, ending with arrests, was a visible expression of the divisions taking root in Canadian society—a needless polarization fed by the kind of equivocation we’ve seen from our political leaders.

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Jeff Bezos goes MAGA as Amazon billionaire gushes over ‘calmer, more confident’ president-elect and pledges to ‘help him’ in second term

Jeff Bezos said he was ‘optimistic’ about President-elect Donald Trump’s second term on Wednesday and even plans to ‘help him’ achieve their shared goals.

The Amazon founder was often seen as antagonistic toward Trump during his first go around in the White House.

However, Bezos expressed some excitement about potential regulatory cutbacks in the coming years.

‘I’m actually very optimistic this time around,’ Bezos said on stage during a wide-ranging interview at a conference in New York.

‘He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. If I can help do that, I´m going to help him.’

‘We do have too many regulations in this country,’ Bezos added.

Bezos also promised to ‘save’ The Washington Post, which he owns, following fierce backlash and a precipitous drop in readership after his bombshell October decision to prohibit the paper from endorsing a presidential candidate.

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Transgender TikToker wins ‘Model of the Year’ at Fashion Awards

A biological male won the “Model of the Year” award at the Fashion Awards in London, England, on Monday.

Alex Consani grew in popularity on TikTok during the coronavirus pandemic and garnered 4 million followers on the platform as well as 1.5 million followers on Instagram. The model was signed to IMG Models in 2019, when Consani was only 16 years old.

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