CBC.CA

A Green New Deal for Canada: What it means | CBC News

Doctored video of sinister Mark Zuckerberg puts Facebook to the test

EDMONTONJOURNAL.COM

Brush with death: UCP MLA pushes for mandatory EpiPens in schools

• 
  

  

  
  

  Change Alberta

  UCP WANTS TEACHERS TO DO MORE WITH LESS MONEY AND STAFFING

  I support the call by UCP backbencher, Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk, for mandatory EpiPens in schools and clear policies in each school to deal with medical emergencies arising from allergies.

  And I condemn this backbencher for her immorality in running for a party that promised to cut education spending at the same time as she has a clear agenda to demand MORE from our teachers. She is like so many Albertans in wanting to have her cake and eat it. "Less taxes, more services, smaller deficits," they scream, as if that cocktail is a possible one.

  I also condemn her for running for a party that may or may not care about saving lives of children with life-threatening allergies but zero concern for LGBTQ2S students. Why are some kids' lives supposed to be important to save while others are not?

  I'm sure we'll see more of this from the UCP and their supporters, and sometimes the MLAs themselves--a call for more public services with less public money. Come on teachers and other public servants--tote that barge, lift that pail. The UCP slavedrivers are coming for you.

24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump administration

'Sea Rescues Have Been Criminalized' as German Boat Captain Faces 20 Years in Prison For Saving Refugees

link in article to international petition calling for dropping the charges...please sign.

‘Time Bombs’: 92 Fracking Dams Quietly Built Without Permits, B.C. Government Docs Reveal | The Narwhal

At least 92 unauthorized dams have been built in the region, where natural gas industry fracking operations consume more water than just about anywhere on earth. That’s far more than the 51 dams previously identified in documents obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

TRUTHOUT.ORG

Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools

Chua had penned an essay praising Brett Kavanaugh "as a mentor for young lawyers, particularly women" before sexual assault allegations against him surfaced.

Daughter of ‘tiger mom’ Amy Chua picked as law clerk for US Supreme Court Justice
Chua, a Yale law professor, had penned an essay extolling Kavanaugh ‘as a mentor for young lawyers, particularly women’ before sexual assault allegations against him s...

\\

Do Nike's plus-size mannequins promote obesity or reflect reality?
Nike launch of new mannequins draws wide praise, but also criticism for encouraging people to be overweight. Social media users called out the critics for shaming fat ...

"She is not size 12, or even 16 … She is immense, gargantuan, vast," wrote one critic who was consequently branded "fatphobic".

US man could face death penalty in Vietnam for ‘attempting to overthrow the state’
Michael Nguyen’s family said he has been denied access to lawyers during his detention and insisted he is innocent.

The father of four was detained whilst travelling with activists around Vietnam, a country where independent media is banned and protests are illegal.

“Bangladesh right now is like China when China was first opening up [in the 1970s]."

SCMP.COM

Move over ‘Made in China’. It’s ‘Made in Bangladesh’ era now

Soaring wages at home have seen many Chinese firms set up shop in Bangladesh, boosting its economic growth

For decades, Hong Kong was Asia’s movie capital, the “Hollywood of the East”. Then what happened?

Opera, gangsters and swordplay: the rise and fall of Hong Kong cinema
Once known as the Hollywood of the East, the city’s cinema has taken a hit in recent decades, with imported Hollywood films besting local fare at the box office.

Opera, gangsters and swordplay: the rise and fall of Hong Kong cinema
Once known as the Hollywood of the East, the city’s cinema has taken a hit in recent decades, with imported Hollywood films besting local fare at the box office.

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST ARISTOCRACY

China's ultra-competitive rich want their children to be "perfect", and are spending top dollar for them to learn "how to behave".

Children of Chinese elite are spending hours in etiquette classes to stand out
Tutor Guillaume de Bernadac’s deportment classes help to create ‘perfect’ child, and in Shanghai, US$389 an hour buys instruction in the correct way to converse, dine ...

The endangered coral reef fish that's a delicacy for affluent Chinese diners
The scarcity of the fish and its price tag of up to US$850 a kilo has only made it more appealing to those who can afford it.

It's one of the world’s most endangered coral reef fish, and its scarcity and US$850-a-kilo price tag have only made it more appealing to those who can afford it.

SCMP.COM