In a land of extremes, nowhere in the Arctic does the temperature oscillate more wildly than the tiny settlement of Fort Yukon in north-eastern Alaska. This village — of a few hundred residents belonging to the indigenous Gwich’in community, and which is only accessible by air, boat or snowmobile, depending on the time of year — has the distinction of being both the coldest and warmest place in Alaska.
‘Empty shelves with absolutely no books’: Students, parents question school board’s library weeding process
… “This year, I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books,” said Takata, who started Grade 10 last week.
She estimates more than 50 per cent of her school’s library books are gone.
In the spring, Takata says students were told by staff that “if the shelves look emptier right now it’s because we have to remove all books [published] prior to 2008.”
Where it all leads …
Distressing new video shows addicts stumbling in a trance-like state along sidewalks strewn with burning trash heaps at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s “tranq” drug epidemic.
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‘Everything is at risk’: Mayor Olivia Chow makes case for new funding deal for Toronto
Mayor Olivia Chow has begun publicly campaigning for a new way to fund Toronto’s budget, which is collapsing under the pressures of housing, transit and old infrastructure.
… “Everything is at risk, including our global reputation,” she said. “It’s the difference between being a caring, global city and telling refugees, each with dreams and potential, that there’s no room for you.”
That’s where I want my money spent – on benefit shopping foreigners who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
It should be easy for a G7 country to provide its leader with functional structures of office — that is, physical structures — suited to the esteem of a government head.
Official residences of leaders should be understated, but in an old-money kind of way. Clothing should be well-made. Transport fleets should be functional and, yes, classy. Democratic leaders shouldn’t seem to come from 17th century-Versailles, but they should be able to show (and not just tell) that their nations are prosperous and successful. But Canada and, to an extent, the Anglo world, are failing to keep to these basic standards, which, paradoxically, benefits the lazy elite.
Although the pace of increase has come down ever so slightly, the price of rental accommodation in Canada continues to go up, with the average new tenant now being asked to pay $2,117 a month.
That’s according to a new report from Rentals.ca, which tabulates the data every month from its database of the largest single group of rental listings across the country.
The $2,117 figure is an increase of 9.6 per cent from the average rent in August 2022. That’s down from an all-time high of 12 per cent from August 2021 until August of last year, but still the highest figure ever in dollar terms.
Konstantin Dobrovolski was out in the woods like he was most days in early autumn before the inevitable advance of arctic winter.
Armed with little more than a map, a shovel and an old metal detector, Dobrovolski has scoured the hostile landscape of Russia’s far north for the last 33 years in search of the long-forgotten remains of Soviet second world war soldiers.
“Just today we found the remains of five soldiers, some bones and old medals,” he said, speaking to the Guardian during a research trip outside the Arctic town of Murmansk. “We have to hurry before the ground freezes again.”
The aging of America means more old people on fixed incomes are overwhelmed by the high cost of housing and other financial shocks; ‘not seen since the Great Depression’
NAPLES, Fla.—Judy Schroeder was living a stable retirement in this affluent Florida enclave. Then her apartment building was sold to a new owner during the pandemic and she lost her part-time job working at a family-owned liquor store.
What followed was a swift descent into homelessness.
Faced with a rent increase of more than $500 a month, Schroeder, who had little savings and was living month-to-month on Social Security, moved out and started couch surfing with friends and acquaintances. She called hundreds of other landlords in Naples and southwest Florida but failed to find anything more affordable. She applied for a low-income housing voucher. She began eyeing her 2004 Pontiac Grand Am as a last resort shelter.
Á la the Jeopardy! game show, here’s “Public Infestations” for $200:
These resilient pests swarm, devour and destroy, then move on to a new locale.
Oh, you said “What are locusts?” I’m sorry, the correct answer was “What are Democrats?”
Yesterday, Bloomberg published a report highlighting new details (and therefore additional fallout), of the years-long drastic population shifts from blue hellscapes to red havens
How the Bureau’s “Terrorist Screening Center” fails to screen terrorists.
Presidents regularly mount the podium but FBI directors have kept rather quiet on September 11. Last year, Christopher Wray delivered remarks that prove enlightening.
“It’s fitting that we mark this anniversary here, at the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC),” Wray said, “because the TSC is a prime example of the strides we made following the attacks—developing new capabilities and working in concert with our partners to keep people safe. It demonstrates the ingenuity, the dedication, and the spirit of collaboration we’ve brought—as a collective law enforcement and intelligence community—to the fight against terrorism.”
Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy became the victim of a vicious witch hunt at the end of last month, after she spoke out against the use of experimental puberty blockers on gender-confused children. On her private Facebook page, the former Moloko frontwoman said that it was ‘fucked’ to give these drugs to ‘little mixed-up kids’.
According to Democrats, children’s fundamental rights to education and autonomy are being attacked as books are banned across the United States. According to Republicans, a slew of sexualized graphic novels and “educational” titles are being pushed on ever younger readers. So what’s really going on?
A Slate writer set out to find the answer, at least as it pertains to the oft-banned title It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health.
WINDSOR—Moments after he drove into a Muslim family in an alleged terrorist act, accused killer Nathaniel Veltman steered his heavily damaged pickup truck into a near-empty London parking lot, stopped next to a taxi cab, then knelt on the ground and surrendered to police.
Video played at Veltman’s murder trial Tuesday showed the immediate minutes after a June 6, 2021, collision that killed four members of a London Muslim family, and the arrest without incident of their alleged killer.
Avi Loeb has a CV any academic would envy. He is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard, with more than 1,000 published research papers and a series of prestigious chairmanships. But in recent years, Dr Loeb, 61, has burst out of academia by arguing that some extraterrestrial objects might be proof of alien intelligence.
His 2021 bestseller, Extraterrestrial, argued that Oumuamua, a mysterious object spotted by a telescope in Hawaii in 2017, “must have been designed, built and launched by extraterrestrial intelligence.” His new book focuses on another object, a meteorite that broke up over the South Pacific in 2014. He believes his analysis proves that it, too, is evidence of alien minds at work.
Out here in the far reaches of the American empire, it’s always gratifying and more than a little thrilling when people in the imperial capital take notice of us. Last week, the New York Times’ Ross Douthat wrote about wokeness in the Anglosphere and though he started with how James Bond has gone woke in the latest Bond novel (“On His Majesty’s Secret Service,” written not by Ian Fleming, who died in 1964, but by one Charlie Higson), the subject of woke Canada entered soon enough.
