Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines.
Journalists Find No Evidence of Israeli Claim That Hezbollah Money Stash Is Under Beirut Hospital
Journalists were given unrestricted access to the Sahel General Hospital in Beirut's southern suburbs after the Israeli military claimed a Hezbollah money and gold stash was hidden in a bunker underneath the building. A BBC journalist reporting from the hospital's basement levels said the staff open...
Austin Now Says There's 'Evidence' of North Korean Troops in Russia
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that there was "evidence" of North Korean troops being sent to Russia, comments that came a few days after he said the US could confirm claims about the matter. "There is evidence that there are DPRK troops in Russia," Austin told reporters in…
>For its part, North Korea denied that it sent troops to Russia. In response to South Korea's spy agency claiming 1,500 North Korean troops were sent to Russia, North Korea's UN envoy said on Monday that it was a "groundless rumor." > >Russia had denied earlier claims from Ukrainian officials that North Korean troops were fighting in Ukraine, which there is no evidence of, something that's also been acknowledged by NATO.
>The South China Morning Post reported that South Korean opposition lawmakers are warning against taking action related to intelligence that isn't clear. "There is nothing clear about whether the troops presumably sent by North Korea are combatants or non-combatants, or whether they are soldiers at all," two opposition lawmakers, Kim Joon-hyung of theRebuilding Korea Party (RKP) and Lee Jae-gang of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), said in a joint statement.
Inquiry preceded controversial migration deal linked to claims of abuse in increasingly authoritarian country
Jordana Cutler, Meta’s policy chief for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, repeatedly flagged for censorship posts by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Canada has long profited from West Africa’s gold resources. In fact, every year, these firms extract billions in revenue from the region. Right now, however, Canadian companies in West Africa are quarreling with an increasingly independent bloc of states determined to constrain the ability of foreig...
Fifa has been accused for a second time of failing to engage with concerns over human rights risks in Saudi Arabia
Watson is detained while Denmark decides whether to extradite him to Japan – a decision the 73-year-old has said could be a death sentence
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Watson is detained while Denmark decides whether to extradite him to Japan – a decision the 73-year-old has said could be a death sentence
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20/10/2024 — In August of this year, TransLink, the Metro Vancouver agency responsible for the regional public transit system, declared a crackdown on "fare
21/10/2024 — This morning, around 50 Amazon workers demonstrated outside the DXT4 warehouse in Laval. For them, it was a new escalation in their
>What's more, the number of injuries is much higher than the norm. Kibos says that 126 injuries have been recorded since the start of the year, which works out to about 3 injuries a week. > >Yet in their press releases, Amazon bosses seem proud of their health and safety policies. Amazon Canada stated, in October 2023, "The safety and health of our employees remains a top priority, and we are pleased with our progress." > >In contrast, Trudeau said that "accidents happen because people feel rushed, because there's a rhythm imposed by the machine. The conveyor belt runs, the alarms go off. Then there are the managers who put the pressure on." > >According to a survey by the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC), 69.7% of Amazon workers say that the risk of suffering an accident at work is very high. What's more, 66.6% think it's only a matter of time before their health situation forces them to take a leave of absence or quit their job.
The survey comes as senior ministers blocked arms sales to Israel pending assurances weapons would not be used against civilians
Customers accuse Rogers of price gouging after increased fee for TV boxes
>When Rogers announced plans to buy Shaw, Canada's Competition Bureau fought the merger, citing concerns that the elimination of Shaw as a competitor would lead to harm for consumers, including price increases. > >At the time, Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri pledged lower prices for customers and brushed aside competition concerns. > >Earlier this year, Rogers upped the price of some cellphone, internet and home phone plans.
Five Labour MPs call on PM and foreign secretary to address issue of reparatory justice for slavery and colonialism
>The UN judge Patrick Robinson concluded last year that the UK owed more than £18tn in reparations for its historical involvement in slavery in 14 countries. > >Successive UK governments have resisted calls for reparations. Downing Street sought to shut down the discussion before the Commonwealth summit this week by saying that reparations were "not on the agenda". The government has also ruled out making a formal apology this week.
>As the meeting in Samoa approaches, the Commonwealth, which was created from the ashes of the British empire, faces bigger questions about its usefulness as an association. > >Summit attendance by heads of government has declined. The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, are set to snub this week's meeting in favour of the BRICS summit in Russia.
Documents show Canadian Forces did not send Kristen Adams an apology because it feared she would "be coming back with more media coverage.”
Company must also pay £21.5m to 110,000 victims after taking vehicles away with little warning
Alberta’s $7-million ad campaign, railing against a proposed federal industrial emissions cap, comes just weeks before a leadership review for Premier Danielle Smith whose party members are hungry for conflict with Ottawa.
In 2020, Briant, writing for a non-governmental group called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, exposed details about the Canadian Armed Forces spending more than $1 million on training on how to modify public behaviour. That training was similar to that used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, the company at the centre of a 2016 scandal in which personal data of Facebook users was provided to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s political campaign.
Other initiatives revealed by the Ottawa Citizen included military efforts to keep tabs on members of the public including those involved with the Black Lives Matter movement as well as a plan to use similar propaganda tactics to those employed against the Afghan population during the war in Afghanistan.
An internal investigation by the Canadian Forces determined that some of the efforts violated government rules but no military personnel were ever charged or disciplined.
This seems to be the actual indictment, in case anyone wants to read it:
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s._v._kalashnikov_and_afanasyeva_indictment_0.pdf
The Carter Center (cited by that BBC piece) is funded by various western governments including the US, as well as CIA-affiliated regime-change orgs like the National Endowment for Democracy. They are not a neutral party.
The "pro-Kremlin" smear is similarly questionable as it is promoted by the same groups.
Are there any problems with this particular story? I found it to be mostly collating current thought about BCI and its applications.
National Defence is continuing to ignore requests to release government records as required under law and in the process is undermining a watchdog agency that reports to parliament, members of Parliament have heard.
The House of Commons Committee on National Defence is conducting hearings into the lack of openness and transparency within the department and the Canadian military. So far it has heard that National Defence violates the law in almost 40 per cent of the requests it receives to produce records under the Access to Information Act.
In an increasing number of cases, the department is claiming that records don’t exist, the committee heard.
At times such responses strain credibility. For instance, National Defence claimed not a single document or any information whatsoever was sent to Anita Anand, then the defence minister, throughout the four-month period covering the selection and announcement of the F-35 fighter jet in a $19-billion procurement deal.