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Reddit users have confounded Wall Street by sending GameStop stocks into orbit.
Companies that sell physical copies of computer games in shopping malls do not usually expect their share price to increase by several thousand per cent in the digital and e-commerce era. They are doubly not supposed to when a pandemic is either forcing shopping malls to close or is keeping fearful consumers at home.
But that’s exactly what has happened to US videogame retailer GameStop.
Abraham Lincoln, the man who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the slaves, isn’t good enough for the San Francisco School Board.
A 6-1 vote Tuesday evening sealed the deal on the renaming of 44 San Francisco school sites due to connections with slavery and oppression.
An independent report examining the workplace culture at Rideau Hall found that former governor general Julie Payette and her deputy Assunta Di Lorenzo presided over a toxic work environment.
Released publicly under the Access to Information Act Wednesday night, the report details allegations from staff members of “yelling, screaming, aggressive conduct, demeaning comments and public humiliations.”
The report said that 43 staff members at Rideau Hall described the general work environment as “hostile or negative.”
Twenty-six people interviewed “used the words ‘toxic’ or ‘poisoned’ to describe the general work atmosphere” at Rideau Hall during Payette’s time there.
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.
Oh thank God! I thought they meant Denny Terrio!
That would have hurt.
Report calls for powerful new federal body to regulate social media
A federally funded panel is recommending the creation of a powerful new government regulator to oversee social media companies such as Facebook and Google and to require them to have strong content-moderation practices and to comply with a new legal duty to act responsibly.
The report by the Public Policy Forum (PPF)’s Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, to be released on Wednesday, also calls for the creation of a federal “e-tribunal” to hear complaints about specific social media posts.
The federal Liberal government plans to introduce legislation early this year to regulate social media companies, with a focus on online hate and harassment. The report’s recommendations are aimed at influencing that legislation.
Fuck you Nazi.
A prominent member of Ontario’s science table, which advises the government on pandemic restrictions including school closures, was paid by a teachers’ union for offering an argument against the government’s school reopening plans at a provincial labour board hearing, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Oregon’s Democratic Party has responded to Antifa’s Inauguration Day attack on its Portland headquarters by insinuating that Republicans are to blame and making no mention of the black-clad vandals who smashed up its property.
“Years of relentless Republican attacks on our Democratic values and the very foundations of our democracy have not stopped our work, and neither will this senseless vandalism,” the party stated on Monday in a Facebook post. “We are undeterred.”
This is the greatest case against public teachers unions I have ever seen https://t.co/JxERuj5W92
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 27, 2021
Six of our rank-and-file dance teachers come together to use their art form as a voice to express their desire to feel safe amidst CPS' teacher return policy. They stand in solidarity with all educators at risk, because no one should have to choose between life and livelihood. pic.twitter.com/gajXH9PReE
— ChicagoTeachersUnion (@CTULocal1) January 23, 2021
Born in Morocco, of Canadian nationality, the imam of the Aïcha mosque, in Montpellier, is the subject of a complaint filed in 2019 by one of his nieces, denouncing sexual assault, when she was a minor, then of age, which would have been repeated from 2005 to 2017. “She denounces the touching during the Rouqia, a practice which aims to remove evil spirits”,
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Ariel Robinson, age 29, who won Season 20 of Food Network’s ‘Worst Cooks In America’ has been arrested for child murder prompting the broadcaster to eliminate the latest season of its reality series.
Robinson was charged on Tuesday along with her husband Jerry with counts of homicide by child abuse in the death of their adopted 3-year-old daughter Victoria Rose Smith in South Carolina.
OTTAWA—The federal Liberals have kicked out of caucus Brampton Centre MP Ramesh Sangha, charging him with making “baseless and dangerous accusations against a number of his caucus colleagues.”
In a statement, the chief government whip Mark Holland says that he learned about the allegations late last week and consulted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately.
“The necessary steps were taken. As of this afternoon, Mr. Sangha has been removed from the Liberal caucus,” said Holland, who has not yet replied to a request for clarification.
I smell the usual LPC faggotry.
Greek authorities began issuing digital vaccination certificates for people vaccinated against the coronavirus last week, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis suggesting the measure should be introduced across the European Union to facilitate travel and tourism.
The Greek government’s vaccination certificate initiative will divide society and constitutes an “apartheid-type,” restriction of freedoms, Nikos Filis, a SYRIZA lawmaker and former education minister under the Tsipras government, has said.
