The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned Bill Cosby’s 2019 sexual assault conviction, ruling that a “non-prosecution agreement” with a previous prosecutor should have prevented him from being charged in the case.
The 83-year-old comedian has served more than two years of a three-to-10 year sentence in a state prison in Montgomery County, after his conviction on charges he drugged and molested Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004.
Oxfam worker says she feels ‘under attack for being white, English and voting Leave’ as staff vent their anger at being asked to fill in ‘whiteness’ survey
An Oxfam worker said she felt ‘under attack for being white, English and voting Leave’ as staff vented their anger at being asked to fill in a racial justice survey.
Staff members in the UK were asked if they would describe themselves as non-racist, anti-racist or none/neither in the questionnaire, written by a four-person strong working group and sent to 1,800 employees.
Along with the questions – which also ask participants to state their ethnicity – the survey states that ‘all echelons of power, to some degree, exist to serve whiteness (whether by legacy, the presence of neo-colonialism or cultural imperialism)’.
The National Security Agency’s response to allegations that it is spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked a wide range of responses on Tuesday night with most people falling into one of two camps: Either they noted the carefully crafted way that the statement was constructed or they used the statement to claim that Carlson was lying.
The Liberal government announced Tuesday it’s speeding up its goal for when it wants to see every new light-duty vehicle sold in Canada to be electric.
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said that by 2035, all new cars and light-duty trucks sold in the country will be zero-emission vehicles.
Until now, the government had set 2040 as the target for when it wants to see all passenger vehicles sold to be powered by this technology as opposed to petroleum.
They’re laughing at us.
Five Asian countries account for 80% of new coal power investment
Five Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world’s planned new coal plants, according to a report.
Carbon Tracker, a financial thinktank, has found that China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units, even though renewable energy is cheaper than most new coal plants.
The investments in one of the most environmentally damaging sources of energy could generate a total of 300 gigawatts of energy – enough to power the UK more than three times over – despite calls from climate experts at the UN for all new coal plants to be cancelled.
The Liberals remain poised to regain a majority government in the next federal election, a new poll suggests, while support for the Conservatives appears to be dipping to worrying levels.
The latest Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 38 per cent of decided voters would cast their ballot for the Liberals if the election were held tomorrow, a number unchanged from last month.
EDMONTON — Firefighters were called to a burning Catholic church north of Edmonton around 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
As of 6 a.m., crews were still on scene extinguishing hot spots at St. Jean Baptiste Parish, but the Roman Catholic church on Morinville’s Main Street had been badly damaged and fire departments from neighbouring communities had been called in to help.
Ontario reports 184 new COVID-19 cases; lowest count since Sept. 10, 2020
Ontario reported 184 new COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths on Wednesday, the lowest overall count of cases since Sept. 10, 2020, as hair salons and shopping malls opened across the province for the first time in months.
The seven-day-rolling average of new cases fell to 268, down from 283 on Tuesday.
Ontario rolls back COVID-19 restrictions to allow personal care services, indoor gatherings today
Public health restrictions on businesses and gatherings are rolling back further in Ontario today.
The province moved into the second step of its economic reopening plan at 12:01 a.m.
That means hair salons and similar facilities can open today with masking rules, and retail stores can have more people inside.
Stepping out this afternoon for a haircut. What a blessed relief.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey are trying to shove a ridiculous $70 billion bill through congress called the “Civilian Climate Corps.”
“We’re working to win a Civilian Climate Corps in the reconciliation package,” Ocasio-Cortez revealed on Twitter. “The last time the US did this, we employed 2M people and had record success in wildfire suppression — one the most rapid peacetime mobilizations in US history. We can revive it to fight climate change.”
According to Vision Times media, “America’s neighbours to the North are quietly trying to keep the lid on a dangerous virologic scandal of their own between Canada’s BSL4 lab and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Regarding a secret agreement between Canada’s BSL4 lab and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, Conservative Party Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Chong stated the following:
“We live in a parliamentary democracy and we are facing the same impediments to our investigations as investigators are facing as they attempt to discover the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China.”
Enter Cultural Action Party commentary: the idea that Canadians are in 2021 living in a parliamentary democracy is dubious at best. Yes, it appears that we are. Yes, government and media say that we are. But this doesn’t make it true.
The condition of governance in contemporary Canada is best described as a pseudo-dictatorship. At least in CAP’s opinion, the Liberals are going to win every future election in succession until their goal is accomplished– an end to the purpose of federal elections.
A new report from an investigative reporter who has been at the forefront of reporting on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) alleges that China discussed the threat that man-made viruses pose to mankind and how they might be weaponized to target certain groups of people.
Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records.
Police in the Vancouver area have responded to more than 130 sudden deaths since Friday. Most were elderly or had underlying health conditions, with heat often a contributing factor.
Canada broke its temperature record for a third straight day on Tuesday – 49.6C (121.3F) in Lytton, British Columbia.
The National Pulse has uncovered a trail of investments that tie President Biden’s son Hunter Biden to EcoHealth Alliance, a “charity” the funneled millions in dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The firm led by Hunter Biden, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP), was part of a ‘consortium’ of viral pandemic tracking companies through its investments in Metabiota.
If there is any fault in the Kamloops school affair, it lies with federal Indian Affairs which did not provide adequate funding for the residential schools, the children, and the cemeteries.
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