A London theatre has added a ‘trigger warning’ to its production of William Shakespeare’s 415-year-old play Macbeth, because it contains scenes of violence, suicide, fake blood, and smoking.
The Almeida Theatre in north London includes this “content warning”: “This production includes extreme scenes of violence, including violence against children, suicide, and the use of blood, firearms and knives. It also contains flashing lights, vaping and the smoking of real cigarettes.”
Is the government of Canada planning to give all the land back?
The Fraser Institute has a new study out, called “ Fiscal explosion ,” on the spike in federal spending on Indigenous matters since 2015. It’s by Tom Flanagan, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Calgary and former adviser, campaign manager, and chief of staff to Stephen Harper. Flanagan is maybe our best example of a noted academic who entered what Teddy Roosevelt called the arena. His little book on game theory, using real-word examples from Canadian politics, is one of the best introductions to the subject I know. There aren’t many like him. Jean-Yves Duclos, a top-flight economist who is now federal health minister, is one. Let’s hope Duclos brings serious economics to health policy — starting maybe by figuring out what Ottawa is doing in a provincial field.
These mentally unstable people are teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/f7tpzuBDSl
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 28, 2021
AT&T’s new racial reeducation program promotes the idea that “racism is a uniquely white trait.”
AT&T Corporation has created a racial reeducation program that promotes the idea that “American racism is a uniquely white trait” and boosts left-wing causes such as “reparations,” “defund police,” and “trans activism.”
I have obtained a cache of internal documents about the company’s initiative, called Listen Understand Act, which is based on the core principles of critical race theory, including “intersectionality,” “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “white fragility.” CEO John Stankey launched the program last year and, subsequently, has told employees that private corporations such as AT&T have an “obligation to engage on this issue of racial injustice” and push for “systemic reforms in police departments across the country.”
A scientist who wrote a leading textbook on artificial intelligence has said experts are “spooked” by their own success in the field, comparing the advance of AI to the development of the atom bomb.
Prof Stuart Russell, the founder of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, said most experts believed that machines more intelligent than humans would be developed this century, and he called for international treaties to regulate the development of the technology.
Former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter has lost her bid to shed a first-degree manslaughter charge in the shooting death of Daunte Wright earlier this year.
Potter had previously been charged only with second-degree manslaughter for killing the 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop on April 11, alleging she’d mistaken her weapon for a taser.
The announcement by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta in a virtual-reality rebrand has prompted dismay and bemusement.
On Thursday, Zuckerberg said Meta would encompass Facebook as well as apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and the virtual reality brand Oculus.
“Announcing Meta — the Facebook company’s new name,” the tech giant said in a tweet. “Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection.”
The committee now recommends mRNA boosters to people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adults over the age of 70, front-line health-care workers with a short interval between their first two doses, and people from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities.
The latest recommendation says the emerging evidence suggests vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic infection and mild COVID-19 disease may decrease over time, and a booster could help restore protection.
By the new year, mandatory boosters all round.
Quebec Premier François Legault recently declared that the province is completely done with fossil fuel extraction and is now being pressured not to compensate the impacted companies.
During his speech to open the new legislative session on Oct. 19, Legault said that going forward, Quebec needs to “count on its assets to profoundly transform our economy” by relying on electricity and renewable energy and ending fossil fuel extraction.
Every few days, bodies are dumped on the outskirts of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
Some have been shot or hanged, some beheaded. Many have handwritten notes stuffed into their pockets, accusing them of being members of Afghanistan’s branch of the Islamic State.
No-one claims responsibility for the gruesome, extra-judicial killings, but the Taliban are widely assumed to be responsible. IS carried out a suicide bombing in August outside Kabul airport that killed more than 150 people, and is a fierce rival of the Taliban. The two groups are now engaged in a murky and bloody battle. Jalalabad is the frontline.
On Oct. 22, Israel designated six Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as terrorist groups working on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — itself recognized as a terrorist organization in the United States. In response, a number of American organizations, media outlets and intergovernmental bodies immediately rose to defend the NGOs.
The alacrity with which they criticized the move indicates how discourse is often conducted about Israeli-Palestinian issues: condemn first, check details and ask questions later — if at all.
A professor at New Jersey’s Rutgers University said she believes that white people are historically “committed to being villains” — and that her unfiltered solution to addressing white supremacy would be to “take them out.”
Brittney Cooper, a professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies, addressed the history of colonialism during a discussion last month about critical race theory with the Root Institute.
“I think that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate,” Cooper said during the online conference.
OTTAWA — The Department of Canadian Heritage says the national flag will remain at half-mast leading up to Remembrance Day instead of hoisting it up to be lowered again.
22% of voters foisted this twerp on the rest of us.
U.S. President Joe Biden said he was told Friday that he should keep receiving communion despite his support for abortion.
Biden met with Pope Francis in Vatican City behind closed doors.
The topic of abortion did not come up, the president told reporters afterward.
