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Alzheimer’s disease was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, scientists have shown for the first time.
Five people are believed to have developed Alzheimer’s after they were treated with a human growth hormone which inadvertently contained the seeds of dementia.
The tainted hormone was given to more than 1,800 children of short stature in the UK between 1959 and 1995 before being withdrawn when it was shown to trigger Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
The “dumb criminals” phenomenon has surely crossed the computer or phone screen of anyone who has spent even a scintilla of time on the internet — but we think this story out of the Brampton, Ontario area, north of Toronto, takes the concept to a different plane altogether. According to Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers in the Caledon area, early January a 25-year-old motorist allegedly opened a beer in-car to commemorate having just passed his G2 license exam 20 minutes prior.
What the flugelhorn? Top TV journalists freak out if you suggest President Biden is showing signs of experiencing a mental decline, but it’s apparently fair commentary to call him “Genocide Joe”?
Last week, Liberal MP Ken McDonald walked back comments suggesting he would like to see the Liberal Party consider a leadership review of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
But even if a substantial number of Liberal MPs wanted such a review, there’s no formal way to make it happen — not while Trudeau is prime minister.
The Liberal Party doesn’t have a leadership review mechanism built into its constitution. It does allow for “leadership endorsement” ballots, which allow registered Liberals to vote on whether they still support the current leader.
Kate Middleton returned home today after a two-week stay in hospital following abdominal surgery – with flowers and a gift bag left by wellwishers driven back to Windsor by a royal aide.
The Princess of Wales, 42, is not expected to carry out official engagements until after Easter, with her husband Prince William clearing his diary of official duties as she recovers at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor Great Park.
Kate went into The London Clinic 14 days ago on Tuesday, January 16 – with royal sources saying she was ‘making good progress’ and would now continue her recovery from home.
This sounds much more serious than we know.
h/t Mauser
NBC’s Saturday Night Live ended up with egg on its face when “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost attempted to make fun of former President Donald Trump for using the word “de-bank” — a well-known financial term used to describe the denial of financial services to political dissidents, frequently at the behest of the government.
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— Biltek Plus (@biltek_pluss) January 18, 2024
h/t Mauser
Volunteer Police officer harasses a woman singing Christian songs on the street.
“You’re not allowed to sing church songs outside the church grounds.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 29, 2024
British Columbia’s premier has apologized after he says a member of his staff posted an incorrect message in social media posts linking to his statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday.
David Eby says on the social media platform X that the mistake was noticed immediately and removed, “but it should not have occurred.”
@fancypants_s It's different now. I didn't see the original. https://t.co/egIxrsXvXQ
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) January 28, 2024
h/t Sweetpea
This could happen. I mean, have you seen the force of wind lately due to climate change? pic.twitter.com/vbMX968vXY
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 26, 2024
With Canadian GDP per capita dropping like a stone, what would you expect our minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland, to say last week at the elite Davos confab? “Come to Canada! We have $135 billion to give you!” is what she did say. Given our poor investment performance, it seems the only way to attract capital is to offer billions of tax dollars to foreign multinationals.
How do people not know?
My mind is literally blown. I’m shaking. I’m shook. pic.twitter.com/ntT6A7JzDh
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 26, 2024
Many Canadians are addicted to drugs. In fact, the country is ranked as the second most drug-addicted country in the world.
That’s according to analysis of new data by experts at Go Smoke Free, a vaping products website, who found Canada has 2.46 cases of drug use disorders per 100 people, only behind the U.S. at 3.42 people.
Police have vowed to ‘leave no stone unturned’ in the hunt for knifemen after two boys, aged 15 and 16, were stabbed to death in south Bristol on Saturday night.
Police scrambled to the scene ‘within minutes’ of a call to an address on Ilminster Avenue, in Knowle West, at around 11.20pm yesterday where the two teenagers were discovered.
Police carried out first aid at the scene before the two boys were rushed to hospital by ambulance after sustaining fatal stab wounds.
Social cohesion may be at threat.
The new year in downtown Brampton was marked by a series of student protests at the city’s satellite campus of Algoma University.
As the exploitation of international students at post-secondary institutions across Canada continues to make national headlines, the hard-to-fathom enrolment trajectory at Algoma’s local campus illustrates the fundamental problem: in just three years the number of students at the campus has grown by approximately 900 per cent.
Almost all of them are from India. There is no housing provided for them and they pay more than three times the fees charged to Canadian and American students.
