The announcement will confirm the Pope’s trip to Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit during the last week of July, according to confidential sources whom the CBC is not identifying because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Study finds cleaner air leads to more Atlantic hurricanes
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in regionalized air pollution across the globe to storm activity going both up and down. A 50% decrease in pollution particles and droplets in Europe and the U.S. is linked to a 33% increase in Atlantic storm formation in the past couple decades, while the opposite is happening in the Pacific with more pollution and fewer typhoons, according to the study published in Wednesday’s Science Advances.
Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘temporarily on hold’
LONDON (AP) — Elon Musksaid Friday that his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is “temporarily on hold” pending details on spam and fake accounts on the social media platform, another twist amid signs of internal turmoil over the proposed acquisition.
In a tweet, the Tesla billionaire linked to a Reuters story from May 2 citing a financial filing from Twitter that estimated false or spam accounts made up fewer than 5% of the company’s “monetizable daily active users” in the first quarter.
Only 5% Fake Accounts? Doubtful.
Whistleblowers reveal FBI opened investigations into parents angry at school boards, GOP lawmakers say
Attorney General Merrick Garland incited national controversy last October after he issued a memorandum that dispatched FBI agents to investigate an alleged “disturbing spike” of “harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against school board members.
Garland was responding to an “urgent request” from the National School Boards Association, which claimed school board members were “under an immediate threat.” That threat? Parents who showed up at school board meetings and voiced frustration over school closures, mask mandates, and progressive curriculum.
Canada boosting NATO military role as alliance eyes major strategic shift over Russia
Canada is boosting its role in NATO deterrence efforts in Latvia amid a major shift by the alliance to a more assertive defensive posture in the wake of Russian atrocities in Ukrainian cities of Bucha and Mariupol.
Colorado mom furious after teacher invites daughter to secret LGBTQ+ club and tells kids to lie to parents about it
Erin Lee, the mother of a 12-year-old student at Wellington Middle school, has told the media that her daughter was told in class by a teacher that her family was “not safe” for her, and that she may be transgender.
The shocked Lee said during an interview that the teacher, Kimberly Chambers, asked the children “who they were sexually attracted to,” and said that, if they are not comfortable with their bodies, “they may be transgender.”
Continental Breakfast
Homemade Mediterranean Flatbread
Keeping the Bill C-11 Implementation Secret, Regulating User Content, and Citing Non-Existent Benefits
The Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) was the subject of hours of debate yesterday in the House of Commons as the government presses to get the bill out of second reading and onto committee for hearings and further study. Setting aside the claims of “censorship” on one side and “you don’t care about creators” on the other, there were some notable takeaways from the debate, including the government digging in on keeping the policy direction to the CRTC secret, acknowledging (perhaps inadvertently) that the bill does regulate user generated content, and several comments from MPs that promise outcomes that are simply not part of the bill.
Police Department Restricts Officer Recruitment To Female And ‘Racialized’ Candidates
OPS directed TND to a news release put out Monday indicating the department was looking for 80 new officers, and that its “outreach strategies will be designed to encourage increased applications for female, Indigenous, and racialized candidates.”
No End In Sight For Government Spending Spree Across Canada
This budget season, most Canadian governments preached the importance of fiscal responsibility while failing to introduce an effective plan to achieve their own objectives. Many provinces and the federal government continued to borrow and increase spending without reasonably working towards a balanced budget, despite every jurisdiction experiencing an unexpected influx of revenue.
Biden Administration Shipping “Pallets” Of Baby Formula To Border Amid Nationwide Shortage
GOP Rep. Kat Cammick says the Biden administration has been shipping “pallets” of baby formula to illegal migrants in U.S. holding facilities, amid a nationwide shortage that has sent mothers across the country in search of the newborn foods.
“Biden is sending pallets of baby formula to the border,” the Florida lawmaker said Wednesday in one of two online postings. “Meanwhile, store shelves across America are empty and moms are being told they don’t know when more is coming in.”
Nina Jankowicz Said She Wants to Be Able to Use Her Power to Edit Your Tweets
Jancowikz starts off by telling her fellows in a Zoom call she’s in that she’s verified and while others are verified they shouldn’t be, not because they’re not real people, but effectively because they have different opinions than her and are not “trustworthy.”
She then expresses the idea that verified people like herself should be able to “edit Twitter” in the same way people can edit Wikipedia, and be able to “add context to certain tweets.” She, of course, gives an example that involves Trump.
“If President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the 60 lawsuits that went through the court or something that an election official in one of the states said,” said Jankowicz. “Perhaps your own secretary of state and his news conferences. Something like that.”
‘Supply Chain Disruptions’ Are Not An Accident, They’re The Logical Result Of Stupid Lockdowns
These “supply chain disruptions,” as everyone is painfully aware, are doing everything from starving babies to shooting up the price of everything, as Wednesday’s 8.3 percent annual inflation number affirmed again. They are also not random, and they’re not a virus’s fault. They’re the direct and foreseeable consequence of ill-advised global lockdowns that nearly all of our nation’s political leaders refused to take into account when they and corporate media colluded to gaslight the world into accepting them.
Nigerian student beaten, burned to death over ‘blasphemous’ text messages
KANO, Nigeria, May 12 (Reuters) – A female Nigerian student was beaten to death and set on fire by fellow students who accused her of posting “blasphemous” statements in a student Whatsapp group, two witnesses said.
The school, located in Nigeria’s northwesternmost state of Sokoto, was immediately closed down following the attack. Nigeria is divided into a largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north. Incidents such as this are very rare.
Illegal migrants first to get ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula
The nationwide shortage of baby formula that has sent mothers desperately rushing from store to store has evaded one lucky group: illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol.
According to videos posted by a Florida lawmaker, the Biden administration has been shipping “pallets” of baby formula to migrant holding facilities.
‘They were furious’: the Russian soldiers refusing to fight in Ukraine
When the soldiers of an elite Russian army brigade were told in early April to prepare for a second deployment to Ukraine, fear broke out among the ranks.
The unit, stationed in Russia’s far east during peacetime, first entered Ukraine from Belarus when the war started at the end of February and saw bitter combat with Ukrainian forces.
“It soon became clear that not everyone was onboard with it. Many of us simply did not want to go back,” said Dmitri, a member of the unit who asked not to be identified with his real name. “I want to return to my family – and not in a casket.”
Nina Jankowicz says verified Twitter users should ‘edit’ others’ tweets
The “disinformation expert” tapped by President Biden to head a new US agency division that critics have likened to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” says that “verified” Twitter users should be able to edit other users’ tweets if they believe they are misleading.
All Wars Are Endless Wars
The future is going to be a lot like the past.
Over 70 days into the Ukraine war, no one knows how it’s going to end. But the one thing that we can be sure of is that it’s going to pick up again where it ends this time around.
The war is the latest episode of a nationalist territorial conflict going back centuries. And those don’t go away until the people fighting them do. Progressive theories of history spent the last century predicting that wars were on the way out in a more enlightened age. Then two world wars shattered the civilized world and nearly led to a third even more devastating conflict.
Why can’t the ACLU say the word ‘woman’?
Trans ideology is undermining the fight for women’s rights.
Why can’t the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) bring itself to use the word ‘woman’?
In the wake of the leaked Supreme Court opinion, suggesting that Roe v Wade could soon be overturned, the ACLU has stepped up its campaigning. Roe v Wade has guaranteed the legality of abortion across the United States for the past 50 years. Its demise would give a green light to the many red-state legislators who are chomping at the bit to introduce new bans and restrictions on abortion.