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Campaigners say the avatar of a 21-year-old researcher was sexually assaulted in Meta’s virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds.
Corporate accountability group SumOfUs, for whom the researcher works, says it shows Meta needs better plans to mitigate harms in the metaverse.
Meta’s annual shareholder meeting takes place on Wednesday.
The company told the BBC there were safety tools in Horizon Worlds to help people have a “positive experience”.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid once again proved how deep her hatred runs for her fellow Americans who share a different political opinion, especially on gun rights. During the opening segment on her show The ReidOut, she lashed out at Republicans and the National Rifle Association (NRA) and made the recklessly irresponsible claim that their “tolerance for slaughter [is] bottomless.”
Canada Soccer says it has cancelled a controversial exhibition game against Iran set for next month in Vancouver.
The international match, which was scheduled for June 5 as part of the preparations for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar later this year, drew the scorn of the families of those who died aboard Flight PS752 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down the plane in 2020.
Actor Kevin Spacey charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Crown Prosecution Service says
Sorting through expert opinion on Monkeypox runs into some very 2022 problems
Monkeypox. My patients are asking about it, so I decided to educate myself about it, and share what I learned. What I found is that it’s probably not as mysterious as the media presents it. However, it’s no mystery why what’s likely going on is being soft-pedaled. It’s insensitive.
A gender discrimination complaint filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission by former Q107 co-host Jennifer Valentyne has led to the suspension of the Derringer In The Morning show.
Corus Entertainment suspended the program Tuesday over complaints that came to light in the wake of a recent video posted on Twitter by Valentyne this past weekend.
Posted only because at some point everyone in the GTA has listened to Q107.
VILLAINS, UNITED? Soros Poured Millions into Groups Trying to Bring Down Musk
Liberal billionaire mega-donor George Soros funded at least five organizations behind a now infamous letter that claimed Musk’s expected buyout of Twitter “will silence and endanger marginalized communities, and tear at the fraying fabric of democracy.” Open Society Foundations records indicate that Soros gave five of the groups behind that letter a whopping total of $3,915,000 from 2016 to 2020. All five groups — NARAL Pro-Choice America, Free Press, the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), Access Now and UltraViolet — support a variety of radical causes, including abortion, censorship and anti-woman gender ideology.
An email encouraging members of the Canadian Armed Forces to consider contacting Habitat for Humanity if they can’t find affordable housing is casting a spotlight on a growing challenge facing military personnel and their families.
The email was sent by a senior officer at 19 Wing Comox to other members at the Royal Canadian Air Force base on northern Vancouver Island, which is home to the military’s search-and-rescue school as well as several squadrons of aircraft.
“Further to our discussion this morning, one potential housing option for our folks is Habitat for Humanity,” said the email dated May 5. “Should this be of interest to any of your personnel, please have them review the information located here.”
Develop new skills! Like standing in a welfare line! This will really help recruiting.
Former US Secretary of State warns against the defeat of Putin as Western unity on sanctions frays badly
Veteran US statesman Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the long term stability of Europe.
The former US secretary of state and architect of the Cold War rapprochement between the US and China told a gathering in Davos that it would be fatal for the West to get swept up in the mood of the moment and forget the proper place of Russia in the European balance of power.
Dr Kissinger said the war must not be allowed to drag on for much longer, and came close to calling on the West to bully Ukraine into accepting negotiations on terms that fall very far short of its current war aims.
There is apparently a fatness chart which determines how much victimhood you can claim for being fat pic.twitter.com/2fj0MGz2OH
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A probe of the National School Boards Association’s call for federal investigations of parents as domestic terrorists found the White House was involved in the drafting process that led to the controversial request.
The association commissioned an internal investigation following outcry from parent groups and association board members who were upset by the inflammatory rhetoric in a Sept. 29 letter to President Joe Biden. The group found that Chip Slaven, then-CEO of the National School Boards association, told a White House senior policy adviser on Sept. 21 that he planned to ask Biden to use the FBI and Justice Department to investigate threats against school board members under counterterrorism statutes and the Patriot Act.
Democrats are evil.
Canada’s intelligence community will have to grapple with the growing influence of anti-democratic forces in the United States — including the threat posed by conservative media outlets like Fox News — says a new report from a task force of intelligence experts.
“The United States is and will remain our closest ally, but it could also become a source of threat and instability,” says a newly published report written by a task force of former national security advisers, former Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) directors, ex-deputy ministers, former ambassadors and academics. Members of the group have advised both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Damn Fox for implementing the Emergencies Act!
I think CBC is jealous of Tucker’s ratings and embarrassed they zealously promoted the Trump-Russia lie.
WHO expert warns amid claim cluster of cases may trace back to just ONE super-spreader event
Sexual transmission at two festivals in Europe may have sparked the world’s escalating monkeypox outbreak, a World Health Organization expert has claimed.
Dr David Heymann, who used to head the WHO’s emergencies department, revealed it was the leading theory behind the origins of the current cluster of cases.
He said: ‘We know monkeypox can spread when there is close contact with the lesions of someone who is infected, and it looks like sexual contact has now amplified that transmission.
