Skyler Williams walked out the door that night, wondering if he’d make it back home.
He was there after they shot Dudley George dead at Ipperwash. Just a scrawny teenager in 1995, he skipped school so he could stand shoulder to shoulder with the warriors at Ipperwash Provincial Park, reclaiming land taken by the Canadian government during World War II.
Amazon warehouse workers say a version of the company’s infamous “time off task” productivity-monitoring system is operational in Canada — and it’s pushing them to race against seemingly arbitrary digital timers, at the expense of their health.
Court documents in the United States show that Amazon uses the scanners to help monitor workers’ productivity. Back in 2018 an attorney for Amazon confirmed there are penalties for too much “time off task” between scans.
Moderna Inc’s experimental vaccine is 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage trial, the company said on Monday, becoming the second U.S. drugmaker to report results that far exceed expectations.
A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota intensified into an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm as it swept over the western Caribbean Monday morning. The storm was approaching the same part of Central America battered by Hurricane Eta just over a week ago.
It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus, spreading misinformation and violent rhetoric -- and spilling into real life, like the protest planned for DC this weekend.
he world’s super-rich are seeking to escape from coronavirus lockdowns in cities by buying multimillion-pound English country estates to create Downton Abbey lifestyles, complete with butlers, cooks, housekeepers and armies of gardeners.
Estate agents are reporting a surge in sales of vast country estates and former castle properties, which until Covid-19 struck had become increasingly hard to shift as the richest of the rich instead opted to live in luxurious skyscraper penthouses, on tropical islands or superyachts.
Since 2017, QAnon posts have appeared on the online forums 4chan and 8kun, painting an unfounded and dramatic picture of the Democratic party and American “deep state” as the orchestrators of a criminal pedophilic cabal, which Trump is cast as quietly dismantling. It extends to Canada too — the Washington Post on Friday reported Canadian QAnon boards falsely claiming Justin Trudeau was planning “millitary intervention on American soil” in response to Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election.
“This is not a milestone to celebrate, but rather a troublesome reflection of a broken global economic system,” said Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies.
With the American election looming, it appeared that a resounding defeat might be in the works for Trump and his Republican enablers. Nevertheless, it was clear that Democratic contender Joe Biden was not exactly setting the country alight with enthusiasm. The vote appeared to be not less a choice between the two rivals than a question of accepting or rejecting Trump. As it was, Biden was forced to run a much closer race than had been anticipated.
Biden had been given the nod by his party as an impeccable representative of the neoliberal centre. In June, he had assured a gathering of wealthy donors that his actions in government would not have any significant financial impact on them and that “nothing would fundamentally change.” He even stressed that the rich should not be blamed for income inequality and told the monied interests that “I need you very badly.”
As Jason Kenney’s UCP government takes steps to privatize Alberta healthcare services during a pandemic, lobbyists representing for-profit health companies have been lining-up outside Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s door.
A new review of lobbying records by PressProgress shows a flurry of activity this fall from private companies that specialize in private health services.