President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Guiliani says the major networks — including Fox News — won’t have him on as a guest anymore now that he’s trying to make a case for election fraud.
Racial Justice Activists Push Biden to Give Them Administration Posts
The same people who backed and took part in protests in cities across the United States in the name of racial justice are now pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to reward them for their votes with positions in his administration.
“There was a mandate,” Gladys Limón, executive director of California Environmental Justice Alliance, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “This is a litmus test.”
Paul Whelan: Grim life of US ‘spy’ in Russian labour camp
Convicted as an American spy, Paul Whelan is preparing to spend Christmas in a Russian labour camp as talks to negotiate his release have faltered.
In his first detailed interview since his arrest, Mr Whelan has described life locked up alongside murderers and thieves as a “very, very grim existence” and called on his four governments to do more to get him out.
The former US Marine has always insisted he is innocent, describing himself as a hostage of “slimy” Russian politics and a “sham” trial.
Homicide unit investigating Markham house explosion that left 2 children dead
Members of the York Regional Police Service’s homicide unit have taken over an investigation into a fatal house explosion in Markham that claimed the lives of two children.
On May 17 shortly before 10 a.m., emergency crews were called to a residence on Bur Oak Avenue for a reported fire. Crews arrived on scene to find that there had been an explosion at the home, which subsequently caught fire.
Dad was away…
Beijing ransacked data as US sources went Dark in China
In early 2013, as Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping prepared to assume the Chinese presidency, very few people in the West had any idea what kind of leader he was. In January of that year, the New York Times’ Nick Kristof, an experienced China correspondent, wrote that Xi “will spearhead a resurgence of economic reform, and probably some political easing as well.”
It was a radically mistaken assessment. But even inside the U.S. government, knowledge of China—and its intensions—was at a low point. During the 2000s, U.S. intelligence had operated with relative confidence against Beijing. But during China’s biggest political transition in decades, American officials were looking through an increasingly opaque glass.
Swedish Academic Rejects Alleged Economic Benefits of Mass Migration
Swedish Professor of Economics Mats Hammarstedt has rejected claims that mass migration can be economically beneficial over the long term, citing problems of integration.
Professor Hammarstedt, who teaches at the Linnaeus University in Växjö and the Institute for Business Research, said that integration failures, particularly of asylum seekers, have contributed to a much higher unemployment rate among migrants over the long-term.
CEOs raked in hefty dividends as their companies accepted Covid wage subsidy, Financial Post analysis finds
The chief executive officers of 68 Canadian companies that paid out dividends while receiving the pandemic wage subsidy earned an estimated $30 million in dividends themselves during the quarters in which their firms accepted the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), according to an analysis of share ownership stakes by the Financial Post.
Earlier this month, a Post investigation revealed that at least 68 companies that received more than $1 billion in CEWS — a subsidy designed to help companies that have seen their revenue drop significantly cover payroll costs and keep employees in their jobs — paid out more than $5 billion in dividends over the past two quarters.
Canada Stops China Takeover of Arctic Gold Operation, Miner Says
Canada rejected a plan by China’s Shandong Gold Mining Co. to acquire TMAC Resources Inc., which runs a mine in the country’s Arctic region, on security grounds.
Toronto-based TMAC owns the Hope Bay gold mine in the northern territory of Nunavut, an operation that includes a port and air strips. Shandong, an acquisitive state-backed metal producer, agreed to buy the company for about $150 million in May, but in October TMAC said it had received notice that the Canadian government had ordered a national security review.
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s second carbon tax will increase energy poverty: Report
The federal environment ministry predicts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s proposed second carbon tax, known as the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR), will increase energy poverty in Canada.
It concludes the CFR will disproportionately impact low and middle-income households, seniors, single mothers, rural Canadians, oil, gas and freight transport workers, single family homeowners, tenants and possibly other groups for which there is insufficient data, such as the LGBTQ2+ community.
New Satellite Has “Superman’s X-Ray Vision” To See Through Buildings
A new satellite from Capella Space is capable of taking high-resolution images anywhere in the world, even through the walls of buildings, according to Futurism.
What makes the Capella-2 satellite nothing short of magnificent is its onboard sensor, called the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which can snap a picture in night or day, rain or shine.
h/t Mauser
Rex Murphy: Why COVID should be on the cover of Time magazine
Time magazine was wrong. And not just in its lame pick of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its person(s) of the year. It was wrong in the concept.
2020 was not, by any stretch, a year in which a person or persons could be selected as being most impactful. It was an “event” year; one event visited every corner of the globe, and in one measure or another played out in the lives of almost everyone. The event was, obviously, the coronavirus pandemic, and as that word so clearly marks, it had a greater universal impact than any other event since the end of World War II.
Internet company becomes first in Canada to be convicted on child-pornography charges
An Ontario court has decided that internet companies can be held liable for child pornography that is hosted on their servers, sending a warning signal to the corporate world to be more vigilant.
Dubbed a “big box store” of child sexual abuse content by police in 2019, YesUp eCommerce Solutions Inc. has become the first known corporation in Canada to be convicted on criminal charges targeting child porn distribution.
Google confirms it notifies children if parents are monitoring their accounts
Google informs children when their parents are monitoring their account activity, the tech giant confirmed this month, with the company claiming that doing so is a way of balancing the interests of both parents and children.
Google’s child-notification policies received attention when film director Robby Starbuck claimed on Twitter that his 7-year-old child had received a warning from Google that his account was being monitored.
Ontario reports 2,202 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting more than 2,200 new cases of COVID-19 as the number of virus-related hospitalizations surpasses 1,000.
Ontario is reporting 2,202 new infections today, up from the 2,123 logged on Monday but down from the record 2,432 confirmed on Dec. 17.
LILLEY: Trudeau needs to ban flights or test the passengers
Last month, as he urged Premiers to do everything they could within their powers to stop the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he hoped none were doing anything than what was best to stop COVID-19.
“I would hope that no leader in our country is easing public health vigilance because they feel pressure not to shut down businesses or slow down our economy,” Trudeau said.
McDonald’s China offers weird limited edition ‘Oreo x Spam burger’
McDonald’s has just released a bizarre new creation from its test kitchens in the form of a new burger. The new addition comes with a full cast of unlikely burger characters such as Spam, crushed Oreo pieces and a creamy sauce. McDonald’s China is the birthplace of this unique menu item called Oreo x Spam burger which was launched on December 21.