That was fast.
BREAKING: Donald Trump has won New Hampshire’s GOP primary, delivering a setback to rival Nikki Haley, who is running out of time to establish herself as a viable alternative to him. https://t.co/aSXWN4EH0K pic.twitter.com/jBcY0LMoOU
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2024
Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their “Doomsday Clock” set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia’s actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed Israel’s Gaza war and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as they did last year, set the clock at 90 seconds to midnight – the theoretical point of annihilation. Scientists set the clock based on “existential” risks to Earth and its people: nuclear threat, climate change, and disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and new biotechnology.
Was he taking the ACT?
Thought copying someone else’s test answers was extreme? A 26-year-old man named Angrez Singh has been arrested after allegedly masquerading as his girlfriend so he could take an exam in her stead, as seen in photos blowing up online.
Disturbing, antisemitic protests are on the rise in Canada. Do we let the terror flags fly?
One of the greatest challenges in liberal democracies is the tension between curbing hatred and protecting free speech. The 1977 case of a planned Nazi rally in Skokie, Illinois, is one of the most famous examples.
Skokie was a nearly half Jewish town and home to hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The Nazis planned to appear with banners and in uniforms with swastika armbands. Skokie officials tried to block the demonstration, and this led to a series of lawsuits. Famously, the American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) took up the free speech rights of the Nazis, who were represented by Jewish lawyer David Goldberger. The case tested the ACLU’s commitment to the value of free speech in the face of abhorrent and hateful conduct by a small group of repugnant bigots.
Zach Kessel and Ari Blaff offered a big write-up at National Review titled “How the Washington Post Abandoned Basic Journalistic Standards Covering the Israel–Hamas War.”
Some of it recounts the general tendency to rely on Hamas: “A review by NR of the Post’s coverage since 10/7 revealed no fewer than 148 individual articles that cite the ministry’s casualty statistics. Some of the articles refer to the Gaza Health Ministry as ‘Hamas-run’ while others lack any modifier that would inform a naïve reader who might view the Gaza Health Ministry as a neutral agency.”
More than three months have passed since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, during which hundreds of Israelis were murdered, beheaded, raped, mutilated, and kidnapped — and it is still hard to find any senior Palestinian Authority official who is prepared to condemn the atrocities.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has held a number of meetings over the past few weeks with senior US administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has refrained from publicly denouncing the Iran-backed Hamas terror group for its barbaric attacks on Israelis.
Your personal information may have been leaked in the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ (MOAB), cybersecurity researchers have warned.
Over 26 billion personal records have been exposed, in what researchers believe to be the biggest-ever data leak.
Sensitive information from several sites including Twitter, Dropbox, and Linkedin was discovered on an unsecured page.
Once branded as Canada’s Donald Trump, investor-turned-reality-television-star Kevin O’Leary is hitting out at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the Liberal leader said a second Trump presidency “won’t be easy” for Canada.
Smash hit Barbie came away with a glittering trove of Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning but fans claimed one thing – or maybe a pair of things – were missing.
Star Margot Robbie together with director Greta Gerwig were both snubbed by the Academy in two areas.
I have not seen Barbie and may only watch if I am up at 2 am and can’t sleep.
Anyone seen Oppenheimer?
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues in the Middle East, one highway overpass in Toronto has become the centre of local tension and conflict.
The Avenue Road bridge over Highway 401, located in North York, has been the site of several pro-Palestinian demonstrations and, more recently, three arrests.
The location of the bridge rallies has been blasted by Toronto Jewish groups, who allege it has been selected because it is in a neighbourhood with a significant local Jewish population.
They spoke to all 3 members of the fictional “Eglinton-Lawrence and Don Valley For Palestine” Hamas forgivers club.
The first meeting between the conservative billionaire who just purchased the Baltimore Sun and the newsroom didn’t go as bad as it could have, but it didn’t go well.
In a three-hour meeting last Tuesday, David Smith, the owner of Sinclair Media Group, told employees that he’d read the paper four times in the last few months and told them they’d have to up their game.
Arwyn Jordan Regimbal would have celebrated finally having the correct gender marker on their Quebec driver’s licence, had they not been an exception to the rule.
A year and a half after taking steps to have an X gender marker on their documents, the 23-year-old non-binary person finally got their licence in the mail last Wednesday — a first in the province.
h/t Editor
Electric cars will never account for more than a third of the market and consumers should not be forced to buy them, the boss of Toyota has said.
Akio Toyoda, chairman of the world’s biggest carmaker by sales, said that electric vehicles (EVs) should not be developed to the exclusion of other technologies such as the hybrid and hydrogen-powered cars that his company has focused on.
Speaking to employees in a question and answer session, Mr Toyoda called for a “multi-pathway approach”, adding: “The enemy is CO2.”
B.C. and Ontario are vowing to crack down on private post-secondary institutions that are accused of exploiting international students, after the federal government announced Monday it will cap the number of student permits issued in the next two years.
Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced the government will reduce the number of student visas by 35 per cent for 2024, stating the goal is in part to target private institutions he described as “the diploma equivalent of puppy mills.”
I don’t believe this for a minute.
A very good explanation of the housing crisis and why the Liberals can’t fix it doing what they’re doing.
Most housing economists at that time concluded that Canada’s booming population wasn’t the key driver of rising home prices.
The key driver of rapidly rising home prices, they argued, was a “lack of supply” driven mainly by municipal inefficiencies and zoning restrictions 2/
— John Pasalis (@JohnPasalis) January 22, 2024
Videos of antisemitic speeches by Iranian generals, given to UK students, are being investigated by the Charity Commission.
The regulator is also looking at footage of “death to Israel” chants at an Islamic charity’s UK premises.
Verified by the BBC, two of the videos show talks by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. One described an apocalyptic war on Jews.
h/t Sweetpea
