Maker of suicide pod plans to launch in Switzerland
The company behind a 3D-printed pod which can help carry out assisted suicide has said it is confident it could be used in Switzerland as early as next year.
Sarco commissioned a Swiss legal expert, who found that the machine did not break any laws in the country.
But other lawyers questioned his findings.
And assisted-suicide organisation Dignitas said it would be unlikely to meet “much acceptance”.
A key question arising from the death of a gunsmith near Port Dover involves the “customer” who was in his shop Nov. 3 when the gunsmith died in a hail of police bullets.
Questions about the mysterious customer have circulated now for more than a month.
This smells bad.
A Maryland woman charged in connection with selling US nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign power wanted to flee the country because she despised President Donald Trump, not because she feared arrest, her lawyers said.
Diana Toebbe and her husband Jonathan were arrested in October and face espionage charges. Prosecutors have argued against freeing them on bail, citing a text message from Diana saying the couple would be “welcomed and rewarded by a foreign [government].”
At a hearing on Wednesday, her lawyers presented additional messages to argue she was motivated by disdain for the Republican president, not fear of being caught.
The RCMP has charged a former member of the Canada Space Agency (CSA) for allegedly working on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.
Former CSA engineer Wanping Zheng, 61, was charged with breach of trust by a public officer on Tuesday after an RCMP investigation, the CSA said in a statement Wednesday. He is a resident of Brossard, Que., a suburb of Montreal.
Liberal billionaire megadonor George Soros supplied $3million last year alone to a ‘dark-money’ group supporting left-wing organizations such as BLM that are dedicated to defunding the police, it has emerged.
The Foundation to Promote Open Society, which is one of two major grantmaking foundations funded by Soros’ network, Open Society Foundations, funneled a total of $3million in 2020 to the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability (CRH), according to a search of the charity’s grant database.
Soros’ foundation bankrolls CRH through New Venture Fund, the largest of four funds managed by Arabella Advisors that pulled in a combined $1.6 billion in secret donations last year, tax forms show.
Alec Baldwin asked for sympathy for himself and his colleagues on the set of Rust in a lengthy open letter, after Halyna Hutchins’ death.
The actor discharged a gun on set and accidentally shot the cinematographer during a rehearsal, and also injured director Joel Souza.
He later spoke of the incident in an emotional sit-down interview on ABC, vowing he doesn’t feel ‘guilt’ for what happened.
Addressing Hutchins’ shooting on Instagram, the 30 Rock star insisted that the descriptions of the working conditions as ‘chaotic and dangerous’ are false.
This seems a convenient effort to exonerate the producers of which Alec was one no?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said this week the U.S. would take a more direct role in diplomacy to address Vladimir Putin’s concerns over Ukraine and Europe, part of a broader effort to dissuade the Russian leader from a destabilizing invasion of Ukraine.
But any negotiations to peacefully resolve Europe’s tangled East-West rivalries will present minefields for the U.S. president.
Administration officials have suggested that the U.S. will press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy to eastern Ukrainian lands now controlled by Russia-backed separatists who rose up against Kyiv in 2014. An undefined “special status” for those areas was laid out in an ambiguous, European-brokered peace deal in 2015, but it has never taken hold.
A senior Black Lives Matter leader has strongly defended Jussie Smollett as he awaits the verdict in his trial on allegations of faking a hate crime, insisting that Smollett should be acquitted because ‘we can never believe police’.
Smollett, 39, is currently on trial in Chicago, accused of having orchestrated a fake attack on himself in January 2019, then lied to Chicago police about being the victim of an anti-gay, racist hate crime.
Jurors are expected to resume deliberations on Thursday, having deliberated for about two hours on Wednesday following a roughly one-week trial.
Shocka! – 74% think Smollett staged fake hate crime: poll
Two of Canada’s frontline frigates lost electronic storage devices containing classified and top secret data — including electronic warfare material — according to security inventories conducted over the last two years, CBC News has learned.
The devices — USBs, DVDs and a backup hard drive — went missing despite an apparent tightening of security in the wake of a spy scandal almost a decade ago, and a separate internal 2013 board of inquiry which recommended measures to clean up the navy’s handling of classified data.
Canada is racing to close deals for new plants to produce electric-vehicle batteries amid an increasingly heated North America-wide competition for investment in EV manufacturing.
Government negotiations with at least three companies looking to make major battery-building investments have reached a critical stage, sources familiar with the talks confirmed on Wednesday.
… As auto makers shift from gasoline-fueled cars and light-duty trucks to electric vehicles, Ottawa has promised to capitalize on Canada’s combination of natural resources and manufacturing infrastructure and expertise to be a major EV player. But its efforts are being challenged by U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to introduce EV purchase rebates of up to $12,500, with a large chunk of that contingent on the vehicles being made in the United States.
Seems a real possibility that Canada’s auto industry will be decimated. Justin’s BFF Biden has repeatedly slapped Canada in the face since taking office. Personally I suspect Biden’s handlers just don’t give a damn about Justin or Canada and Junior knows it.
Trudeau is a petulant little China Fan Boy so I wonder if he’ll attempt a pivot to Beijing in retaliation for US protectionism. Don’t put it past Junior, he really is that ignorant and Canada’s China class will be pulling his strings. There has to be some reason the Liberals have been so reluctant to ban Huawei. Is a Huawei reprieve Justin’s way back into Xi’s good graces? (go incognito)
Canadians should brace for the biggest surge in food prices in more than decade
… Climate change, extreme weather like the B.C. flooding, labour shortages, food transportation challenges and last but certainly not least — inflation.
Canada’s Food Price Report 2022, out this morning, warns that Canadians can expect to pay even more for food next year.
It forecasts that food prices will surge between 5% and 7% in 2022, the highest predicted increase since the report started 12 years ago. (For perspective, the report’s 2021 forecast was a 3% to 5% increase, which it says proved accurate.)
OTTAWA — The Conservatives are rejecting a proposed deal over access to documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s National Microbiology lab, arguing the Liberals’ efforts are too little too late.
Liberal House Leader Mark Holland offered the compromise last week. It called for striking an all-party committee to review the confidential documents, with a panel of judges enlisted to settle any disputes over whether the documents should be made public or kept secret.
Ont. reports nearly 1,300 new COVID-19 cases, highest daily total in more than 6 months
Ontario is reporting nearly 1,300 new COVID-19 cases today, the highest single-day tally in the province in more than six months.
Provincial health officials logged 1,290 new infections today, up from 1,009 on Wednesday and 959 one week ago.
Over half a million fewer surgeries have been performed since start of COVID-19: report
Over half a million fewer surgeries were performed across Canada during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, a new report suggests.
The report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) drives home the profound strain the pandemic has had on every province and territory’s health-care system, which will continue to be challenged even after COVID-19’s impact fades.
French security services have prevented a planned stabbing spree in public places during the Christmas season. Two suspected Islamic State sympathizers, who hoped to knife holiday shoppers and die as martyrs, have been arrested.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed the arrest of two individuals on Wednesday by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), with a link to a report by the daily Le Parisien.
“The terrorist threat remains at a high level in France, we are not lowering our guard,” Darmanin said.
It threatens to destroy kids’ love of reading.
When I was a kid, the stories had normal plots. You know, an idiot wolf, a girl one fry short of a Happy Meal, a very heroic hero, and a really villainous villain. A couple of days ago I was taking a look at the books the school librarian is currently recommending to some 7- to 11-year-olds, and, if I’m being completely honest, I am pretty sure that the kids would would be better served intellectually if they spent the whole damn day on a Playstation instead of reading that huge mountain of crap.
