OTTAWA — The federal government doubled the amount of pandemic aid for Canada’s food banks on Friday. Another $100 million is being added to the Emergency Food Security Fund so food banks, related agencies and Indigenous organizations can keep helping struggling Canadians put food on the table during the COVID-19 pandemic. “They do remarkable work […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labor, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude. Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organization, said Friday that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern […]
Google is amassing huge amounts of personal user data while simultaneously accruing big-time political clout, a new report from Public Citizen confirms. “” (pdf) looks at the ways Google is accumulating political power—through high-powered lobbying and sizable campaign donations—as well as massive amounts of personal information that make the company a “treasure trove for agencies […]
Over 100 scientists and researchers have urged a federal task force to take immediate action on bee-harming pesticides. Click Here: NRL Telstra Premiership In a letter (pdf) dated Monday and sent to U.S. Department of Agriculture head Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy, the scientists write that documented bee declines “are not […]
Watchdog groups are sounding the alarm as congressional lawmakers finalize an eleventh-hour omnibus bill, which observers say contains gifts to both big monied banks and donors. Thanks to a provision slipped into the more than $1 trillion congressional funding bill, which lawmakers agreed to late Tuesday evening, wealthy donors will now be legally permitted to […]
A retired naval officer and former government secretary is suing the producers of Citizenfour, the documentary chronicling NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s classified document release in 2013, for “profiteering” from the “theft and misuse” of government files. The officer and former secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation, Horace Edwards, said he was filing the suit […]
A coalition of nine environmental and open-government groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for its decades-long failure to require the oil and gas extraction industry to disclose the toxic chemicals released by fracking, natural gas processing, and related operations. The lawsuit (pdf) follows a petition that the groups filed in October 2012, requesting […]
“…it’s easy to forget it all began with Poitras… the first person Snowden made contact with.” That’s CBC News referring to Laura Poitras, the journalist and filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated documentary Citizenfour, which offers a look at NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s first meetings with journalists. Poitras, who’s been detained and questioned by federal agents dozens […]
Full race results from the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, round 11 of the 2020 Formula 1 season. 2020 Eifel Grand Prix – Race results Pos Driver Team Gap Stops 1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 60 laps – 1:35:49.641s 2 2 Max Verstappen Red Bull + 4.470s 2 3 Daniel Ricciardo Renault + 14.613s 2 […]
There’s no such thing these days as a “great place to find a job,” but if you need one fast in the pandemic, forget Toronto or Vancouver. You’d be better off in Manitoba or Saskatchewan. The pandemic shutdowns have turned Canada’s job markets upside down, and the previous engines of job growth ― the big […]