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The NBA postponed the Los Angeles Lakers’ home game against the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday with several massive wildfires burning across the greater Los Angeles area. It is the second straight day a game slated to be played in downtown Los Angeles has been postponed. The NHL’s Los Angeles Kings …
Read More »Hockey Night in Canada scores an itiqtitsijut with broadcasts in Inuktitut
Being able to speak Inuktitut on Hockey Night in Canada is like a dream come true for Pujjuut Kusugak. “It’s just one of those things that you wished and you fantasized about but now it’s a real thing that’s coming up,” he said. Kusugak, and a small collection of other passionate speakers, …
Read More »Indians deluged with false reports about release of Nijjar murder suspects
Millions of Indians woke up Thursday to a deluge of news stories falsely claiming that the four Indian nationals accused of murdering Sikh Canadian Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023 had been released from custody after the case against them fell apart. The stories were repeated in many different outlets, …
Read More »#TheMoment a man escaped a California wildfire on bicycle
Francois Auroux recounts the moment he went to check on his neighbours in California and ended up fleeing the Palisades wildfire on bicycle, racing through the flames in a desperate attempt to get back to his family. News Source link
Read More »Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado freed after detention
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was freed on Thursday after a brief detention, her Vente Venezuela movement said on social media. Machado was detained after an anti-government march in Caracas, her first public appearance in months, amid gunshots, the movement said, adding that during her detention she was forced …
Read More »Autism Speaks is leaving Canada. Is that a good thing?
Some Canadians are celebrating a major autism organization’s decision to pull out of the country, highlighting a shift in the way people think about autism. Autism Speaks quietly announced last month that it will end its Canadian operations on Jan. 31. “The intentional decision to conclude was not taken lightly and has …
Read More »Chaos and an abduction in Caracas as Canada recognizes Venezuelan opposition
Thursday was marked by massive marches and a confused high-profile abduction in Venezuela, on the same day that Canada recognized opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the legitimate president of the country. Gonzalez is in exile in Spain, while Venezuela’s de facto ruler, Nicolas Maduro, continues to occupy the Miraflores …
Read More »Norovirus cases are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know about this nasty bug
The Dose24:30What do I need to know about norovirus? For Edward Chou, a first-year biochemistry student at the University of Guelph, the symptoms began shortly after lunch on Monday. “I just felt something in my stomach and I just started throwing up and I had to go to the toilet …
Read More »Trudeau appears on CNN to make case against tariffs to American audience
For the first time since U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened hefty tariffs on Canadian goods, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took his argument against the import taxes directly to the American public. Trudeau told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview on Thursday afternoon that a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian …
Read More »Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross uses the camera as a character
RaMell Ross dove into Nickel Boys with a uniquely useful background. First, as a Black man raised in the South, the filmmaker had the knowledge and experience necessary to adapt Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys for the screen without too much additional research. That’s not to say he didn’t look …
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