Teenager gets jail sentence for fatal stabbing of Edmonton boy outside high school
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/teenager-gets-jail-sentence-for-fatal-stabbing-of-edmonton-boy-outside-high-school-1.7437697?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Edmonton school support worker strike leaving some special needs students in limbo
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-cupe-strike-1.7438005?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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January 22, 2020 – As cases of a new “viral pneumonia” were breaking out in China and beyond, Trump was asked by a reporter if he was worried about a pandemic. “No. Not at all,” he said. “And — we’re — we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.”
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Even 1 drink a day elevates your cancer risk – an expert on how alcohol affects the body breaks down a new government report
The government linked alcohol with seven types of cancers, prompting the US surgeon general to call for warning labels on beer, wine and liquor.The Conversation
Endless diarrhea and exhaustion: the stomach bug making the rounds among the most vulnerable in Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/shigella-infection-canada-1.7437238?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 471) to expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and improve forest management activities on National Forest System lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Manag
A resolution in the U.S. Congress.GovTrack.us
CO2 levels keep on rising. Our planet is getting relentlessly hotter. Wildfires are growing out of control.
And it's not only the land that's warming, but the oceans too. Which means death for coral reefs.
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‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating diseaseGraham Readfearn (The Guardian)
Elon Musk's salute falls flat: Why far-right trolling isn't working this time around (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
salon.com/2025/01/22/elon-musk…
memeorandum.com/250122/p24#a25…
Elon Musk's salute fell flat — why far-right trolling isn't working this time around
"People can officially stop listening to you," AOC said to defenders of Musk's provocationSalon.com
A study launched late last year is examining the impact of racism on Black Coloradans. And they want to hear from everyone.
Yeh, this ought to be obvious, even though the mainstream coverage has been focusing on how pissed off the cops are, and how incompetent this appears to allied nations, and how it "undermines our democracy."
But it should also be pointed out that the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers had declined to relatively insignificant organizations in the wake of the mass incarcerations of their members and will now, in all likelihood, rebuild, even stronger and more heavily armed than before, and start showing up to disrupt and intimidate progressive demonstrations and those defending immigrants, drag shows and other groups the MAGAs hate.
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Guard rails The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, stipulates that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction t…Dan Gillmor (The cornerstone of democracy...)
22 January 1922 | A Polish woman, Joanna Nowak, was born in Łódź.
In #Auschwitz from 22 January 1943.
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She perished in the camp on 7 March 1944.
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The oilpatch thought it had dodged a bullet, until Trump mentioned tariffs again
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/oilpatch-trump-tariffs-1.7437638?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ny intervju med Jonas Elvander om EU:s nyliberala rötter och vänsterns vägval.
youtu.be/xiV5gkMdRR8
The Stephen Miller EOs - emptywheel
At least two of the Executive Orders Trump signed on Monday give Pam Bondi the space to conduct investigations without predicate to help out Stephen Miller's close allies and his goal of generating propaganda delegitimizing rule of law.emptywheel
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On the same day, however, the World Health Organization convened an emergency meeting to discuss the virus. The following day, China imposed a lockdown for millions of people in Wuhan and other cities.
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