[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 19 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

CBC is reporting Carney is ~~10~~ ~~15~~ 20 minutes late. Trump is probably seething at that.

Edit -- Carney is staying at Blair House which is literally across the street from the WH.

Second edit -- Carney was 25 minutes late. Lol

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 16 hours ago

Carney doesn't play word games like the others do (see the English debate for reference). He is honest and loves Canada.

What will happen is he'll run circles around almost everyone else and they'll be pissed off he's beaten them ... cause he's smart. (Today's visit with Trump will be interesting to watch.)

You never play a game using someone else's rules. You either change the rules or change the game.

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It’s been three years since the deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Noelle O’Soup and Chelsea Poorman.

But their families are no closer to any answers to explain how three young Indigenous people died in the Metro Vancouver area.

And in the case of Harrison, family members have discovered disturbing information that calls into question previous findings by the BC Coroners Service.

The Tyee has previously reported on concerns raised by (forensic pathologist Dr. Matthew) Orde and other pathologists about the overall quality of work being done by the BC Coroners Service. Coroners in the province are not required to have medical training.

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John Reilly, the highway superintendent in Chester, a town nearly 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Manhattan, was charged Saturday with first degree assault and criminal possession of a firearm.

State Police say the DoorDash driver had been attempting to deliver food to a residence in Reilly’s neighborhood on Friday night when he became lost and unable to navigate using the app.

They say the driver approached several homes asking for directions before arriving at Reilly’s residence.

“Reilly told the victim to get off his property, before firing multiple shots at the victim as he attempted to leave in his vehicle, striking the victim once in the back, causing serious physical injuries,” state police said.

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Hundreds of Indian tourists, families and honeymooners, drawn by the breathtaking Himalayan beauty, were enjoying a picture-perfect meadow in Kashmir. They didn’t know gunmen in army fatigues were lurking in the woods.

When the attackers got their chance, they shot mostly Indian Hindu men, many of them at close-range, leaving behind bodies strewn across the Baisaran meadow and survivors screaming for help.

The gunmen quickly vanished into thick forests. By the time Indian authorities arrived, 26 people were dead and 17 others were wounded.

India has described the April 22 massacre as a terror attack and blamed Pakistan for backing it, an accusation denied by Islamabad. India swiftly announced diplomatic actions against its archrival Pakistan, which responded with its own tit-for-tat measures.

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Two cases were identified in Missouri, and one each in Florida, Illinois, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

People got sick in February and March of this year, the CDC said. They all had the same strain of salmonella — a version that has been traced to hatcheries in the past. The investigation is continuing, health officials said.

But one concern is that chickens and other backyard poultry can carry salmonella bacteria even if they look healthy and clean. A backyard poultry-associated outbreak that ended last year was tied to 470 cases spread across 48 states, including one death.

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Hudson's Bay Co. has backtracked on its decision last month to cut commission pay earned by hundreds of cosmeticians and fragrance advisers during liquidation sales, CBC News has learned.

The retailer's sudden change of heart follows a grievance filed by its union, Unifor, which represents dozens of the workers, and CBC News coverage.

CBC reported two weeks ago that several cosmeticians and fragrance advisers (also knows as beauty advisers) said they were distraught over the loss of commission pay, as it would significantly reduce their take-home pay.

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On Friday morning at around 9:30 a.m., federal agents in unmarked cars and bearing no agency insignia pulled over a bus in Albion, New York, about 35 miles west of Rochester, and took 14 people of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms into custody. All of the detainees, who hailed from Mexico and Guatemala, were year-round employees of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms, a family-owned business in nearby Kent, New York, which has been locked in a multiyear battle to prevent workers from unionizing.

The company is one of five agricultural businesses that, together with a state growers’ association, have tried for years to overturn or chip away at New York’s 2019 farm labor law. The law enshrined protections for the right of farmworkers — whether seasonal or year-round — to seek union representation.

The raid did not appear to be a broad sweep but rather a targeted enforcement aimed at specific people, according to sources who have been in contact with the families and spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity to candidly discuss a sensitive legal situation.

“At first we thought they were enforcing a deportation order, that they had one person that they’re looking for and then everyone else got dragged in — that’s kind of standard,” said one of the people with knowledge of the raid. “But this was strange because they actually had a list of most of the workers on the bus.”

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A disgraced ultra-conservative banjo player ousted from his Grammy-winning band; a far-right conspiracy theorist with alleged ties to Russia; a TikTok creator known as “Maga Malfoy” for his resemblance to the Harry Potter character; and an extremist social media “influencer” once banned from Twitter for posting a video depicting sexual abuse of a child.

These are just some of the “new media” personalities courted by the White House to take part in a series of alternative briefings championed by Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt.

An extraordinary gallery of Trump-promoting characters has paraded through the West Wing in recent days, answering Leavitt’s call for “independent journalists” and “influencers” to attend her press gatherings.

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Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, has suspended gold mining and announced a 12-hour curfew in Pataz, in the northern region, after criminals kidnapped and killed 13 gold mine workers.

A Peruvian gold mining company La Poderosa said on Sunday that the bodies of 13 contract workers from a local firm had been found by police inside one of the mine’s tunnels.

Boluarte told journalists on Monday that the “armed forces will take control of the area where La Poderosa operates”, but did not give further details about how the 30-day mining pause would be enforced.

The government response, which critics have called tardy and ineffective, comes amid outrage over the murder of the 13 men who had been held captive for more than a week by criminals believed linked to illegal mining. Police said the hostages were tortured and that video footage – allegedly recorded by the captors themselves – showed the miners were shot dead at point-blank range.

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Donald Trump’s administration on Monday pushed forward in defending US rules easing access to the abortion drug mifepristone from a legal challenge that began during Democratic former president Joe Biden’s administration.

The US Department of Justice in a brief filed in Texas federal court urged a judge to dismiss the lawsuit by three Republican-led states on procedural grounds.

While the filing does not discuss the merits of the states’ case, it suggests the Trump administration is in no rush to drop the government’s defense of mifepristone, used in more than 60% of US abortions.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Nenshi is waiting in the wings for that election.

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An Ontario couple says Air Canada failed to protect them and then blamed them after their flight was mysteriously cancelled and the credit used to buy a business class ticket to Tokyo — for someone they'd never met.

Bill and Sandra Barlow spent more than a year saving for their dream trip to South and Central America, which was a 75th birthday celebration for Bill.

But on Nov. 17, just two days before they were scheduled to fly home, they got an unsettling surprise when they called Air Canada to check on their return flights. Someone had cancelled them.

Even more baffling, they say the airline told them the theft was the couple's fault — claiming the couple's email had been hacked and that they had failed to secure their Air Canada Wallet, something they didn't even know they had.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago

Alternate headline -- Trump syncophant Drug Fraud asks PM to line the pockets of his besties

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Ford sent the prime minister a letter Monday setting out a series of Ontario priorities that he hopes Carney will address, including accessing critical minerals, building an electric-vehicle supply chain and enacting bail reforms.

At a meeting in March with the premiers, Carney asked them to identify "nation-building projects." Ford's letter sets out his list of areas he wants the federal government to prioritize "that would be transformational for Canada's economy."

But the "nation-building" project drawing the most attention is a driver and transit tunnel expressway under Highway 401.

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An exhaustive search continued for a fourth day on Monday for two young children believed to have wandered away from their home in rural northeastern Nova Scotia.

Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan were last seen around 10 a.m. Friday in the community of Lansdowne Station.

In a short update on Monday, RCMP Cpl. Carlie McCann said that over the last three days ground teams have “meticulously searched” several kilometres in the area where the children were last seen.

“Searchers are diligently keeping track of which specific sections of the ground have been covered and are applying their specialized skills to allow the searchers on scene to stay safe,” McCann said.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

The U.S. government encouraged people to report on doctors in Canada who provide gender-affirming care to children—signaling a chilling new cross-border reach in its anti-trans agenda.

In mid April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted a form on its website soliciting “tips” about the “Chemical and Surgical Mutilation of Children,” echoing the language of Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to block gender-affirming care to those under 19 years old.

The website promised to protect “whistleblowers” and contained a drop-down menu that included the provinces and territories of Canada, as well as Canada’s Armed Forces—effectively allowing reports to be filed against health care providers located north of the border.

Trump overstepping his bounds as usual. What an asswipe he is.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

“Simply put, the Vista expansion would carve up the Rocky Mountains, threaten endangered species, Indigenous Rights, water quality and community health,” Fraser Thomson, a staff lawyer with Ecojustice who represents Keepers of the Water and the West Athabasca Watershed Bioregional Society in opposition of the project, said in an interview.

Hellberta and Smith ... name a more appropriate climate-warming support duo.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

I'm leaning more towards them emigrating somewhere else. If they wanna go that bad, cool. Lots of people out there who would love to buy their property and live peacefully in Alberta.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

If Drug Fraud wanted to mess around so much in municipal politics one has to wonder why he transitioned to provincial politics.

Oh right ... because he's a selfish asswipe who's addicted to power.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Lawyer says CBSA focused on small discrepancies to reject family that qualified for entry under exception

Canada has its own fair share of asshole border agents.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago

You may want to contact the First Nations band office closest to you (or another band office of your choosing) and speak to them about it.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago

There is. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled multiple times on Indigenous land rights and, for the most part, have ruled in favour of the treaties with First Nations communities and people.

Smith doesn't have a leg to stand on here.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 days ago

First Nations, Inuit and Metis people will save the rest of us from idjits like Smith and Drug Fraud.

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