OTTAWA — Deep into preparations to compete next month in the Netherlands, Canadian elite-level pistol shooter Kim Britton can’t help but worry for the future.
“I envision a point where to me, even though I love it, it’ll be too challenging to pursue,” she said.
BEIJING/HONG KONG, Jan 17 (Reuters) – China’s population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy and the world.
The country’s National Bureau of Statistics reported a drop of roughly 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, marking the first decline since 1961, the last year of China’s Great Famine.
Canada’s annual inflation rate cooled to 6.3 per cent in December, its lowest level since February.
Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that the deceleration in the cost of living was mostly due to slower growth in prices for things like gasoline, durable goods and various shelter-related expenses.
While the costs of many goods and services are finally coming down or at least slowing their pace of increases, food prices are still going up at an impressive clip. Grocery prices inched up another 0.3 per cent during the month of December, and have increased by 11 per cent year over year. That’s a slight slowdown from the 11.4 per cent pace the previous month.
St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that eight people were shot during an MLK Jr. Day event in Fort Pierce Monday. One of the people who was shot is in critical condition.
All of the shooting victims are adults.
The shooting happened at Ilous Ellis Park at 5:20 p.m. during the MLK Car Show and Family Fun Day. Deputies say more than 1,000 people were at the event.
Urgent investigation after eight people injured in mass shooting at MLK Day event in Fort Pierce, Florida. @victoroquendo reports. pic.twitter.com/zsqLwlPSAp
— Good Morning America (@GMA) January 17, 2023
Over 2.7 Million Canadian Workers to Face ‘Significant’ Disruptions in Sectors Impacted by Future Climate Change Programs: Report
Over 2.7 million Canadian workers will face “significant” disruptions in sectors that will be affected by future federal climate change programs, says a memo previously sent to Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, according to a report.
“The transition to a low carbon economy will have an uneven impact across sectors, occupations and regions and create significant labour market disruptions,” reads the memo titled “Key Messages On Just Transition” and sent to the minister on June 1, 2022. The document was obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Don Braid: Federal memo shows shocking scope of ‘just transition’ in Canada
If nothing else, it should convince people across the country that the federal plan won’t just cause upheaval in oil and gas provinces, but nearly everywhere
Trudeau is approaching Idi Amin status, a tin pot dictator drunk on power but convinced of his own brilliance.
A San Francisco panel studying reparations has proposed a one-time payment of $5 million to each black resident of the city deemed eligible as recompense for the “decades of harm they have experienced,” according to a report on Monday.
“A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population … and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy,” the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee said in a draft report issued last month, Fox News Digital reported.
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments Tuesday on whether police need a court order to obtain an individual’s IP address, in a case civil liberties groups say has Canadians’ online privacy at stake.
The four-year-old dog was ‘the last one left on the shelf’ when her owner found her
An ageing pipeline crossing part of the Great Lakes has led to a standoff between the US state of Michigan and Canada. The outcome of the battle over Line 5, which delivers energy to the US Midwest and central Canada, will be viewed by many as a bellwether of how North America will balance its energy future with its environmental commitments.
The most contentious part of the Line 5 pipeline – which runs from Superior, Wisconsin, by way of Michigan to Sarnia, Canada – sits on the bed of the Straits of Mackinac. The narrow waterway connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron – two of the world’s largest lakes.
In 2018, an anchor from a shipping freighter passing through the Straits struck and damaged the pipe, bringing to the fore longstanding concerns from environmental campaigners and others over possible spills.
A Metropolitan Police officer has admitted more than 80 sex offences, including 48 rapes against 12 women during two decades at the force, making him one of the country’s worst sex offenders.
David Carrick, 48, a firearms officer in the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, pleaded guilty to dozens more offences, including sexual assault, false imprisonment, coercive control and assault by penetration.
More … Horrific crimes of Met cop David Carrick who inflicted 71 sex attacks on 12 women who he called his ‘slaves’, controlled what they ate and cut them off from their families – as he is revealed as one of UK’s worst rapists
Opposition MPs are requesting a House of Commons committee meeting to examine the large increase in government contracts being awarded to the U.S. consulting firm McKinsey since the Trudeau Liberals took power in 2015.
“In the past seven years, McKinsey & Company has garnered $66 million in federal contracts, representing a 30-fold increase from the previous government according to media reporting,” reads a letter signed by all the opposition members on the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates and sent on Jan. 13 to Conservative MP Kelly McCauley, the committee’s chair.
DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left of a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war’s deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of rubble.
Authorities said the death toll from Saturday’s strike rose to 40 and that 30 people remained missing Monday. Tall cranes swung across the jagged gaps in a row of residential towers, the engines growling as residents of one of Ukraine’s largest cities watched largely in silence under a gray sky.
#Ukraine: Rare footage from the Ukrainian 28th Mechanised Brigade in the area of #Bakhmut, showing a Russian Lancet loitering munition taken down by very manual means-small arms and ZU-23-2 autocannon fire. pic.twitter.com/uMciTu21Zu
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) January 15, 2023
Giving her lethal drugs would be murder.
During his first gubernatorial campaign, now-Gov. Gavin Newsom made a truly shocking — and horrifying — admission.
Newsom told a reporter from the New Yorker that in 2002, when he was on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, his 55-year-old mother, who had breast cancer, called to tell him that she had chosen to die by assisted suicide. (“In May, 2002, his mother decided to end her life through assisted suicide,” the New Yorker reports.)
Newsom wasn’t there to pick up the phone, though, because of his political duties.
When the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died earlier this month after being tased by Los Angeles police, a narrative quickly emerged among activists.
Comedian and writer Travon Free wrote on Twitter, “The LAPD murdered Keenan Anderson. A beloved high school English teacher and father who FLAGGED THEM DOWN FOR HELP after a car accident. He was a threat to no one. He needed help and it cost him his life. The LAPD must be held accountable for this at all costs.”
No good deed goes unpunished. That must be what Patriot Mobile cellphone company, a company owned by conservative Christians, is thinking today. The company donated a pizza party to the Grapevine (TX) Police Department and its staff as a way to show its support and appreciation. Nice gesture, right? Not according to some members of the community.
