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Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada YouTube video by World Economic Forum

This is what leadership looks like.

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Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik

Not to mention the many Newfoundlanders (not yet Canadians at that time) and Canadian ironworkers who helped to build the Empire State Building, the World Trade Centre, the Sears Tower, and Rockefeller Centre.

Mike Lee should also honor them by immediately resigning from the Senate

Troops are now patrolling Los Angeles. This is a disaster waiting to happen | Kenneth Roth Troops are trained for war, where they can shoot to kill. Asking troops to police is an invitation to brutality

Troops are now patrolling Los Angeles. This is a disaster waiting to happen | Kenneth Roth

It Really is Magic There’s a lot of talk these days about the difference between a right and a privilege.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan literary giant who fought colonialism, dies at 87 The Kenyan author championed local African languages and was imprisoned for his work. His name was often mentioned in discussions about the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Kenyan author championed local African languages and was imprisoned for his work. His name was often mentioned in discussions about the Nobel Prize in Literature.

‘One of the most heartbreaking tragedies’: Gaza doctor’s last goodbye before nine children killed in airstrike Dr Alaa al-Najjar was at work when Israeli strike destroyed her home, leaving one son and her husband as survivors In the early hours of Friday, as she did every day, Dr Alaa al-Najjar said goodbye to her 10 children before leaving the house. The youngest, Sayden, six months old, was still sleeping. And like every day, with war raging in Gaza and Israeli strikes landing just metres from her neighbourhood in Khan Younis, Najjar worried about leaving them at home without her. But Najjar, 35, had little choice. One of Gaza’s dwindling number of medics, a respected paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, she had to go to work to care for injured babies who had barely survived Israeli attacks. She could never have imagined that that farewell to her family would be her last. Continue reading...

‘One of the most heartbreaking tragedies’: Gaza doctor’s last goodbye before nine children killed in airstrike

A.I.-Generated Reading List in Chicago Sun-Times Recommends Nonexistent Books

A summer reading insert tucked into a special section of The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer recommended made-up titles by real authors such as Isabel Allende and Delia Owens. The Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have apologized.

Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds Researchers say threat from ‘jailbroken’ chatbots trained to churn out illegal information is ‘tangible and concerning’ Hacked AI-powered chatbots threaten to make dangerous knowledge readily available by churning out illicit information the programs absorb during training, researchers say. The warning comes amid a disturbing trend for chatbots that have been “jailbroken” to circumvent their built-in safety controls. The restrictions are supposed to prevent the programs from providing harmful, biased or inappropriate responses to users’ questions. Continue reading...

Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds

Everybody Knew His Name: ‘Norm!’

"Man walks into a bar. It's the starting point for a million jokes," James Poniewozik writes in a Critic's Notebook. "And for season after season on 'Cheers,' some of the best of those were delivered by George Wendt, who died on Tuesday at age 76, as the long-suffering Norm Peterson."

In her thoughtful Medium article, Dr. Alison Wiltz poses this question”What would happen if America embraced a "never again" attitude in terms of the racism and mistreatment of Black people?”

"Life has taught me a hard lesson … that hatred just makes us all more stupid."

There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza Babies such as Siwar Ashour are suffering from malnutrition as crucial supplies run out amid Israel’s total blockade on aid Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment. The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year. Continue reading...

There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza

Again: Listen to Indigenous Voices! #cdnpoli #Alberta #firstnations #ThisLandIsTheirLand

Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken' Beautifully stated, young man!

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WWII survivors share haunting memories as France marks 80th anniversary of Nazi surrender As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on painful memories shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deportation of Jews and others to death camps.

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on painful memories shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deportation of Jews and others to death camps.

My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock

My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.

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Monstrous.

“It’s like you’re helping the trash take itself out.”

Safe travels, friends!

Wow! What a read!

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

At what point are global sanctions instituted against the US for human rights violations?

France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.

We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

“How authoritarian must a country become before it’s morally unacceptable to go there for leisure purposes?”